Most people seem graduate or get their deal before they disappear, but we tend have a few disappearances each month. There have been more than usual lately, though.
Then we can start working out what you might need for that, and get an idea of where your next warden can start. [They checked the ledger for Zakalwe already, and it was empty. The least they can do is find something to add to it.] Do you mind if I come to your cabin?
His cabin looks like theirs — somewhat impersonal, more like a hotel room than someone’s home.
They study the bed for a moment before sitting down. “Is this somewhere from your world or is it … more metaphorical?” He seems to be from the future, at least from their world’s point of view.
"It's a hotel room I stayed in not long before I came here. I think. Those weeks are a little fuzzy, still." He'd been busy, too busy to notice where he was staying. And after that, he'd gotten a head injury.
“Mine is also a hotel room. I wondered if it might mean something.” Their real home would be difficult to put in a cabin, but it would make sense if it were the Barge’s way of representing a lack of stability.
"I'm not sure. I've heard that cabins are supposed to reflect a place the inhabitant considers home and I don't really... have that." Not in a way that was easily expressed as a place, anyway.
“Usually they are, but not always. Do you have somewhere else you might want your cabin to be? I can ask the Admiral to change it.” They like theirs, but Zakalwe might not feel the same.
"No, there's nowhere else that would fit better." Waking up here in his childhood room, the last place he really felt at home, would be horrible. "Nowhere I feel that connected to."
“You never stayed in one place for long,” they guess. They might be wrong, but his relationship with a home sounds almost like their relationship with their body.
"Maybe. I feel more... more stable, here, for all that shit happens every month." Graduation will take a while and after that, he has at least one deal to make.
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People just disappear, sometimes?
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Most people seem graduate or get their deal before they disappear, but we tend have a few disappearances each month. There have been more than usual lately, though.
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Do you want to graduate? [Or does he just want to stay alive?]
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[Especially now that he knows that he could stay as a warden and get a deal of his own.]
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Then we can start working out what you might need for that, and get an idea of where your next warden can start. [They checked the ledger for Zakalwe already, and it was empty. The least they can do is find something to add to it.] Do you mind if I come to your cabin?
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-> Spam
A few minutes later, they knock on his door.
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His cabin looks like theirs — somewhat impersonal, more like a hotel room than someone’s home.
They study the bed for a moment before sitting down. “Is this somewhere from your world or is it … more metaphorical?” He seems to be from the future, at least from their world’s point of view.
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“Mine is also a hotel room. I wondered if it might mean something.” Their real home would be difficult to put in a cabin, but it would make sense if it were the Barge’s way of representing a lack of stability.
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“Usually they are, but not always. Do you have somewhere else you might want your cabin to be? I can ask the Admiral to change it.” They like theirs, but Zakalwe might not feel the same.
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“You never stayed in one place for long,” they guess. They might be wrong, but his relationship with a home sounds almost like their relationship with their body.
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“Maybe the Barge can be a good place to start.” He might not be here forever, but most graduations take at least a year.
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“The events could be a source of stability in and of themselves. They seem to be predictable.”
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“How are Breaches for you?” They think he was here when everyone was turned into animals.
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"They're strange." Though he's only really seen one. "I don't like being someone else like that."