Seventy-Second Theory [Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

[Don has been living in the tunnels since the beginning of the last experiment, and for that time he's been almost entirely absent from the journals as well. Today, he finally re-establishes contact with the outside world.]

Has anyone ever considered building another village elsewhere in the enclosure? [...] Don't we have an organization that's always looking for that kind of volunteer work? The "Blue Viscera"?


[The transmission ends there, but later in the day there's another one:]

If anyone is willing, I would be very honored to have a new sensei. I'm fourth-dan in bojutsu but I haven't been formally trained in two years.


[After dark, he seals up his lair and goes home. When he reaches House 55, he doesn't announce himself, but goes silently to the winter room and re-closes the door behind him.]

Comments

[i_speak_softly]

[... Okay, you're one of those "special" ninjas. If this was happening in person, Don would be backing away slowly.]

I guess that answers several questions.

[materiathief]

Which questions would that be?

[i_speak_softly]

Why the samurai left you alone, why you're not familiar with basic ninja training, and whether you are in fact a fantastic human missile launcher.

[Actually that last part is kind of awesome.]

[materiathief]

Hey, the samurai only left me alone was because of the war.

[But excuse her as she laughs at the last part.] That's a new way to put it!

[i_speak_softly]

What was the war about?

[materiathief]

...Uhm..

It's a really long story, and pretty confusing if you don't know my world, so it was basically about bad people wanting to put something by our village, and the village said no, so nobody was happy.

Few years later both sides kinda gave in.

[i_speak_softly]

You mean build something?

[materiathief]

More like just use Wutai as a resort instead of putting something there.

[Which she still sounds pretty miffed about.]

[i_speak_softly]

Is that... a place...?

[Should he really be pursuing this topic?]

[materiathief]

Wutai? Yeah, it's my home.

[i_speak_softly]

I'm sorry, I'm not really following...