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[tatty_bye]

A new Admiral? I, for one, approve of the change. [He says this but his heart just doesn't sound like it's in it.] I wait with baited breath to see where it is we shall land.

[Private to Merlin]

It seemed prudent to ascertain whether you were still on the ship.

(ooc: So after the snow globe incident, Reaver has been holed up in his room, predominantly. He hasn't attended shifts in the kitchen, he hasn't talked to anyone, he hasn't even looked at the network.)

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Private

[takeyouapart]

I'm still here, Reaver.

[He elects not to ask him how he's feeling. If he wants him to know, he'll tell him.]

Private

[tatty_bye]

...What now? Should I not have vanished?

Private

[takeyouapart]

Graduated, you mean?

Private

[tatty_bye]

Yes.

Private

[takeyouapart]

What's changed?

Private

[tatty_bye]

What do you mean, "what's changed"? You were there.

Private

[takeyouapart]

I mean you. How are you different since we did what we did?

Private

[tatty_bye]

Other than miserable, you mean?

Private

[takeyouapart]

You did a great thing for those people, Reaver. Their souls are freed now, and that's not a small thing. But --

Why did you think you would graduate because of it?

Private

[tatty_bye]

I am loath to ascribe any amount of faith to the established system, but because it's what the Admiral gave you. You being a Warden, I thought you might have some greater knowledge to impart to me.

Private

[takeyouapart]

The Admiral gave it to me as an answer to your question about your hometown. He didn't say it would help you graduate.

I had - hoped - that it would give you some peace of mind, to know the people of Oakvale are at rest.

Private

[tatty_bye]

When I asked about them, I most certainly wasn't volunteering to put them there myself.

Private

[takeyouapart]

Was I wrong? Would you rather this hadn't happened?

Private

[tatty_bye]

[snaps] Of course I would rather this hadn't happened! I wish I had never come here! If it weren't for you and this place, I need never have set foot there ever again!

Private

[takeyouapart]

But you didn't leave the moment you could. You stayed behind there, and that means something.

Did you visit your home after I went back to the cullis gate?

Private

[tatty_bye]

[Petulantly] No, I did not.

Private

[takeyouapart]

Felicia's?

Private

[tatty_bye]

[Her name still cuts like a knife. He hates that other people know it now.]

I didn't do anything.

Private

[takeyouapart]

Then why stay? If you couldn't bear to be there, why stay?

Private

[tatty_bye]

Because I wanted you to leave me alone.

Private

[takeyouapart]

The Barge isn't so small I couldn't have left you alone anywhere else.

Private

[tatty_bye]

Hardly the point.

[strangehistorian]

He is not the Admiral.

Private

[takeyouapart]

No. The point is that you say you hate the fact you returned to Oakvale, but you stayed far longer than you needed to. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm choosing to believe that means that what we did is important to you.

[thestarishere]

This kinda thing happen often?

[NO Ladd is not curious for any particular reason, why do you ask?]