Sometimes people disappear before they graduate, but if the Admiral can hold onto you long enough, you will graduate. Permanent pairings seem to work well, once they happen. [But they know the feeling of not knowing where to start, and not wanting to break away from something that works.]
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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Date: 2025-01-20 09:26 pm (UTC)Sometimes people disappear before they graduate, but if the Admiral can hold onto you long enough, you will graduate. Permanent pairings seem to work well, once they happen. [But they know the feeling of not knowing where to start, and not wanting to break away from something that works.]
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Date: 2025-01-20 09:29 pm (UTC)People just disappear, sometimes?
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Date: 2025-01-20 10:28 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2025-01-20 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-28 05:22 am (UTC)Do you want to graduate? [Or does he just want to stay alive?]
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Date: 2025-01-28 03:24 pm (UTC)[Especially now that he knows that he could stay as a warden and get a deal of his own.]
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Date: 2025-01-28 07:30 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2025-01-28 11:37 pm (UTC)-> Spam
Date: 2025-01-29 10:46 pm (UTC)A few minutes later, they knock on his door.
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Date: 2025-01-29 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-02 11:45 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2025-02-02 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-11 04:10 am (UTC)“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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Date: 2025-02-11 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-21 06:30 am (UTC)“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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Date: 2025-02-21 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-26 05:53 am (UTC)“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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Date: 2025-02-26 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-06 08:30 pm (UTC)“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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Date: 2025-03-06 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-10 04:18 am (UTC)“The events could be a source of stability in and of themselves. They seem to be predictable.”
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Date: 2025-03-10 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-15 03:18 am (UTC)“How are Breaches for you?” They think he was here when everyone was turned into animals.
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Date: 2025-03-15 04:51 am (UTC)"They're strange." Though he's only really seen one. "I don't like being someone else like that."