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[The feed starts, focusing on a girl who appears to be around sixteen. She's sitting on a bed in the apartment she's been assigned to. She appears tense, nervous, though she does her best not to let that carry to her voice as she begins to speak.]

I'm sort of, um, not really new to the whole getting sent to a different world all of a sudden thing, so I don't really have any questions about that. I got everything about the war thing, too, even if I'm not going to have anything to do with it. I did have a few questions about some other things, though, so I'd be really grateful if there's someone out there who knows the answer!

The first thing might seem a little bit silly, but it's important. Um, to me, at least! I just wanted to know if there's a dance studio anywhere in this city, and where it is if there is one. The second thing I wanted to know is kind of more general, but, um, if the words Siren's Port mean anything to anyone here, I'd like to know, and to talk to those people a little bit, if I could. And the third thing...

[She pauses, looking down at her hands, away from the tablet.]

What do you think is the best place here to watch the sun go down? Um, thank you in advance.

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Except they did just do that.

Okay, obviously they can, but that doesn't mean they should.

Yeah, the really shouldn't. But when you're as desperate to change things as they are, you do a lot of things you shouldn't.

( Her tone of voice softens. )

Like mess around with the past without knowing if it's going to bring you the kind of changes that don't completely wipe you and everything you know from the face of the planet.

I'm pretty sure most of us have been pretty desperate at one point or another. It doesn't give us the right to do bad things to other people.

No, it doesn't. I'm really not going to say they have a right to what they do, 'cause I don't think they do. I can just understand their... logic, I guess. How they make it okay to themselves.

Besides, it's not the sort of thing we should always talk about like this, if you know what I mean?

Why shouldn't we talk about it?

... On the network?

[A pause.]

They're not big on criticism, huh?

They don't censor us, I'm just -- pointing out -- ( and then she just starts to laugh. )

No, sorry, they're fine! I'm just saying it's kind of rude to criticize like this, and easier to tell them to your face if you care about them knowing at all.

Do you think they would listen? [Her tone is one of honest curiosity.]

I mean, they've got to have thought about the things I was saying before, right?

I feel like they'd listen. If that means they'll do anything other than say thank you for talking to them about your concerns, I don't know. But they'd at least listen, if you wanted to talk to them.

I'll definitely try that, then. Still - I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about it.

( Collette snorts, shaking her head. )

It's fine, just forget I said anything at all!

Are you sure? I didn't mean to say something to upset you!

( She finds herself laughing again. )

Upset! No no, nothing like that! I'm amused, that's all.

Did I say something funny...?

I'm an easily amused person.

I-I guess I'm just missing the joke, then!

It wasn't much of one in the first place. Though hit me up another time, and I can figure out a better one!

[She pauses, but then giggles.]

Maybe I should take a page from your book! I bet life would be really fun if I laughed at everything.

It's a philosophy that's worked well for me over the years!

( Said with a wink: )

Can't hurt to give it a try, every now and then!

I bet! It's like being optimistic, only, like, extreme!

( There's no helping the laughter Collette gives in to after hearing Ahiru's summation. She knows it does, and is, in many ways that sort of optimism, but that's more in what she says and less in the reasons why she finds the world amusing. She's got to. If she let everything get to her, if she dwelled on all the unfair stuff, and the bad stuff, she'd have grown up crying all the time.

She did that enough as it was. Why make life harder than it needed to be? )

Ahaha! Yeah, you could say that I like my optimism like I like my sports -- extreme!

Well, good for you! I think optimism is always more useful than pessimism.

A balance of the two is probably best for planning, though I agree!

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