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Sixty-Ninth Theory [Voice]

[Yesterday the village grew quiet, as many villagers were called on a draft, and many others began the anxious wait to see if their friends and loved ones would return to the village safely.]

[Also yesterday, a breath of warm weather arrived in Luceti. Don has been out enjoying it, trying not to dwell on those who are fighting on a flying island right now. He has enough other things on his mind, and around midday he does something about one of them.]

Filtered to Beast || Unhackable

Beast... I haven't thanked you properly for what you did for Robert and me. For everything you've done for us.

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[Later, he leaves a brief, unfiltered message:]

Would anyone be interested in learning how to program computers and fix cars?

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I'm trying. Why don't you take it over there?

[He points towards a graceful bridge.]

Y'okay, here we go!

[Off to the bridge they go! No banking all over the place this time though, Pascal makes sure to take things gentler than before.]

[Not bad. The bridge is outlined by blinking lights, and cars can be seen driving smoothly across it. Don didn't waste any time trying to simulate realistic New York driving behavior, though Pascal probably won't notice.]

I liked to climb this bridge, back in the real Manhattan.

Lookie there, way more car thingies! These ones don't have anything on the one I was workin' on before though.

[Wait, was Don saying something? Uh.]

Huh, wassat? Climbing stuff?

[Wow. Is this what Don's brothers feel like, trying to talk to him when he's focused on something else?]

Yes, I climbed... a lot of stuff.

Neato! I'm not really much of a climber. I've climbed stuff, yeah, but I've never gone and seriously climbed anything like the side of a mountain or whatever before.

[Okay, back to staring at the cars. Wanting to take a closer look, Pascal maneuvers around so the helicopter is facing the bridge. Aw yeah, look at all those car thingies whizzing by.]

[Don grins across the central control panel.]

We could go. Out in the real Luceti, I mean.

[... Oh crud, maybe he should not have distracted her from the task of flying a helicopter.]

We could? [...] Oh, duh, there are tons of mountains sitting around! There could be all sortsa cool secrets hidden up those things.

[She said she wasn't going to crash it and she means it, really! Her attention might be divide between mountains and piloting a helicopter but she's keeping things steady right now...

That is, until she decides to take the helicopter up and over the bridge's supports so it's more hovering over the bridge rather than next to it. Hopefully none of the drivers are programmed to flip out too badly at the sight of a helicopter flying just above them.]

[There are no drivers: just randomly-generated cars driving endlessly in pre-programmed patterns.]

I love going up there. I could show you some of my favorite spots.

For serious? Awesome! But I totally have to show you some of my favourite somethings in return to make things even, y'know?

[Now what favourite things should she go with? Inventions? Nah. Banana flavoured foods? Ooh, that could be a winner.]

[Interesting choice.]

I'd like that.

Y'okay! Then we can sort out some sorta sharing time so we can both see each others favourite things. Ooh, I should bring my favourite stuff up on the mountain with me!

[That would make it twice the favourite! Favouritest? ... It would be even more special, somehow.]

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