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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:37 am
Mm? :::She looks up from her book:::
Kal... :::She smiles faintly, and closes her book:::
how is it you feel?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:39 am
:::Kal smiles back in a similarly faint way:::
I'm tired, Cora... :::Running his hands over the top of his head, he realeases a breathe through pursed lips:::
We told them, finally.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:42 am
About the Brink you mean...? :::Her brow arched in interest:::
How did they all take it?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:46 am
:::He stared off to the side and nodded:::
They cheared... and cried... and began asking hundreds of questions...
:::Kal approached the bar and sat down next to Cora:::
I told them two days ago... I don't think even the children have slept since. They just keep talking about it. I've forbid Kara to talk to anyone without me there. She finally agreed.... she's acting strange ever since the announcement, blames it on the baby. You know, mood swings.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:48 am
:::Cora appeared wide eyed for a moment when Kal mentioned Kara's baby... Luke's child...she'd forget all about that, in the midst of this business with the Seraphim and his attack...:::
Oh... oh goodness, has she- has she given birth already?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:51 am
Oh- Oh no... :::He began to explain. He'd forgotten that Cora must never have been around someone pregnant before:::
Mood swings... they happen during pregnancy, horomones changing, you know... Kara's not even showing yet, its only been two months. It'll be another month before it becomes obvious to everyone that she's carrying a child.
:::he pauses:::
We're going to have to give the people some kind of story before then... we haven't told them very much at all about what we've seen here, just that we've BEEN here.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:53 am
:::Cora nods:::
Ah. Well... now that it's out in the open, why don't you tell them the truth?
:::She takes a sip of her wine:::
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:55 am
Well, I can tell them most of it... that I've met all our legends... but I can't tell them about you. I can't tell them that you're stuck here. They'd be outraged.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:56 am
:::She looked at him now... he'd mentioned something like this before, but she never quite understood it:::
Why...?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:01 am
Its- its complicated.
:::Had he said too much? Though, maybe it was time to explain it to her, fully:::
Terra... Terra was founded because...
:::how was he supposed to put this?:::
A very powerful woman who meets you here built it... she did it because you taught her how opressive the Tropolis is, and-
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:03 am
:::She cuts him off:::
your mother? Luca?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:06 am
Yes. My mother... :::he nods and takes a moment to continue:::
According to her, and the writings she left us, she was supposed to have taken you from the Brink, and hidden you among us as a civilian so you could live your life in peace.
But... you're here.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:10 am
Hmm... :::Cora gazes dreamily at no spot in particular in front of them:::
That sounds nice... but, I'm afraid it hasn't happened yet. I've explained the opressions of Omegatropolis to many people here... but I don't recall telling it to any woman who was somehow powerful enough to start a revolution there.
:::She looks at Kal again:::
Do you think... maybe it's going to happen...?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:12 am
:::Kal clenches the muscles in his shoulders in a prolonged shrug:::
I think, it must. I mean... I don't know that the Brink works like that. Could I really have come in before my own existance was set into motion? Am I jeapordizing it by telling you? Honestly, I have no idea.
...but at any rate. That's why I can't tell them. You're supposed to be there, among them.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:16 am
Hm!
:::Her gaze shifts downwards:::
Maybe I'll make it out of here alive after all...
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