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[stillbetter]

[Sorry, guys. She's one of those newbies.]

For God's sake. Really? This has got to be a first. Do these people even know who they're taking in? What am I even going to do here? I'm just a radio host back home, not - whatever you think I am.

[She is no soldier worth kidnapping, no, not at all, thank you very much.]

I can't do this.

I won't do this.

[Look. She's even throwing in a pause to show how serious she is.]

Besides, Fred wouldn't begin to know what to do without me. My fiancé? I have a life back home, you know, and it can't wait. So - you ought to put me back. As soon as possible, if that's not too much trouble.

[She has spoken. ... Then she starts to press random buttons because what am this technology.]

... Hello? Can anyone hear me?

[...

beep beep beep]

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[crocodilesmiles]

Why are you telling us? I don't mean to be rude, honest, but this is a network the Initiative monitors, not one they um... really use?

[stillbetter]

If they monitor it, what's stopping them from answering? [Hm? Hm?]

[crocodilesmiles]

Probably the capacity called caring?

[stillbetter]

They ought to consider the capacity called suing!

[She has spoken! And she is totally right!

no not really]

[crocodilesmiles]

Hahaha, I like you! You're funny. And I mean that, you are funny!

There's no legal system here past what like, Miles Edgeworth and his friends set up, and maybe what Saul Goodman and his friends are doing. Sue who? Over what? Though it's nice to hear something familiar to home at least!

[stillbetter]

Well--there--there has to be something. Who are these people?

[crocodilesmiles]

The Initiative? Kind of what they say they are! But um... I don't know, I'd call them desperate guerrilla war effort fighters, I guess. I'd say freedom fighters, but while that's true, it's also misleading.

[stillbetter]

No, those - those names you mentioned. Who are they?

[crocodilesmiles]

Oh! Oh! Miles Edgeworth is a prosecutor, but he's not here anymore. Saul Goodman is also a lawyer! He's a defense attorney though, like one of the only practicing ones we have here.

[stillbetter]

So he is actually practicing?

[crocodilesmiles]

He's helping out with the whole group of people acting as go-betweens from the Initiative and us. I forget everyone who's in it, but Saul's definitely involved!

[stillbetter]

So he interacts frequently with this Initiative, is that right?

[crocodilesmiles]

Yeah, though any one of us can, and more of us do, but he and the people he works with are doing it in a way trying to make it easier to understand what the Initiative is doing. They're kind of organized chaos! The Initiative that is.

[stillbetter]

[Rolling her eyes. yes she is, thank you. Maybe one day you'll catch her in a better mood. She's lovely on days like that, really.]

Organized chaos! Wonderful. Just wonderful. And we're in the middle of the mess, of course.

[crocodilesmiles]

More on the outside with ties to the middle!

[stillbetter]

[Oh, please.]

Semantics.

And who am I talk to, exactly?

[crocodilesmiles]

I'm Collette! You're Poppy, right?

[stillbetter]

That's right.

[beat.]

French?

[crocodilesmiles]

American, actually! Mom just really liked French names.

( They seemed suitably American, really. )

[stillbetter]

I'd say I was disappointed, but you're probably better off that way.

[French people. Grumpy and arrogant.

Not that she's taking the example from her own mother. Or herself. Nope.]

I'm half-French myself.

[crocodilesmiles]

I don't know, they seem pretty cool!

( Or else at least inoffensiveish in recent history and possibly behind things like French Fries, she's not sure. )

That's so cool! What's your other half?

[stillbetter]

English. As you can probably tell by my accent.

[It's quite an average accent.]

And you've clearly never met one. Or maybe you just haven't met enough.

[crocodilesmiles]

I thought so! That's where my Mom was born. Close to London! I think, it's where she said she grew up anyway.

Hahaha, hey, I probably have! People aren't all good or bad just based on where they're from.

[stillbetter]

What's your mother's name? [Do you mind her being nosy? Of course you don't.]

We'll see about that, won't we.

[crocodilesmiles]

Mom!

( she may be writing tongue in cheek, but it's for her own reasons. )

We always are. Still, why not give people a chance from the start?