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[ The video opens to a pair of hands. Hands, paper, and a line of tobacco. A cigarette being rolled before the camera is tipped upwards and Sharpe comes into view. He drags a hand through his hair, which is more than slightly wet by the rain. It's obvious after a while that he's outside, sitting below the awning of one of the houses in the Hold. His rifle, leaning against his shoulder, is completely dry.

He takes out a lighter and snaps it on, lighting the homemade cigarette and taking a drag. ]

Convenient things, these. [ Tosses the lighter up, and catches it again. ] Works better than any flint. [ Pause, and he shrugs. ] But I ain't here ta talk 'bout fires.

I'm a soldier and I ain't use ta just waiting 'round here. Even travelling and sightseeing [ he grins at this, because going out to the Outlands was fun but not the kind of sightseeing and travel most gentlemen go for ] gets tiring after a while. [ He leans a bit further back against the wall. ] There any books 'round? [ Beat, then he clarifies, because his accent tends to mark him as illiterate: ] Fer reading, I mean. English'd do, but if there's something in French or Spanish, I ain't going ta say no.

[ He takes a drag of the cigarette contemplatively. ]

Stories'll do as well, if no one's got any books ta read.

[ He makes to switch off the transmission, but then he seems to remember something. Scramble, scramble, oops, ash and burnt paper on the camera, which he brushes away irritatedly. ]

Can someone explain ta me how a man and a woman can share the same house without being married or related ta each other? [ He tips his head ta the side. ] It don't say much for decency or the woman's reputation, no. [ Beaaaaaaaaaaaat. ]

And what's those noises on the thirteen floor of that damned building we've been housed in, eh?

[ This is actually Sharpe's point in making the transmission but he wants books as well. Whatever. Look, it's shut off for real now. ]

a little bit later, 10% (crappily) encrypted to morgana

[ Awkwardly: ] How fares you, milady?

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It is English. Terrans. Humans.

[ IT'S OKAY GAMORA NEVER HAD ANY TO BEGIN WITH. ]

[ He snorts. ]

Aye, I've got that lecture plenty already. You have something new ta say, 'bout how yer alien highness is better than us?

That depends on what you've already been told.

Most been telling me how much humans are shite creatures. That much I already know. [ He snorts. ]

Well it's not as if humanity has the sole claim to that either.

[ At least Gamora's willing to diss everyone else, too. ]

Aye? And what makes yer people different?

I wasn't talking about my race, just me.

[ the amount she knows about the zen whoberi is minimal, considering they're all dead. ]

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Alrigh'. What's so special 'bout you, then?

I'm the most dangerous woman in the galaxy. Figure it out from there.

That don't say much 'bout women at all, ma'am. Just 'bout you.

Most women in the galaxy wouldn't agree with you about reputation. Better?

[ He cocks his head. ]

Most women in this galaxy of yers won't mind being called a whore?

[ He sounds genuinely interested. He has nothing against whores, man. Nothing. ]

Oh they'll mind it. You'd be wrong for calling them it in the first place.

[ a shrug ]

But you are from Earth.

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Aye, and humans are shite. I've heard that all before.

Well as long as you know.

You've got a name?

Gamora.

[ definitely not going to ask him back. rudeness 101 student of the year right here. ]

Major Richard Sharpe.

You've got a last name of some sort, or you don't have that sort in yer world?

Just Gamora. If we did, I don't have one.

Must've been plenty confusing if there's a whole other world with no last names.

They're all dead, so it really wasn't.

Aye. [ Wryly. ] So you said.

[ one never knows. terrans. ]

Get big enough and everyone knows who you are anyway.

Aye, that's true enough. But what if you've got another one with the same name?

Unlikely. [ a shrug. ] It doesn't happen.

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