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first silver polished ✗ ( video )

[There's a clicking, and sudden light before Nora's face in on the screen, blinking. She dislikes this-- hell, she dislikes anything remotely modern. If she could remove the pasta arm in her kitchen, she would. It's ghastly. Frankly, the whole thing is.

She's dressed in a simple gold dress, beaded around the neck. Her hair is pinned up as it usually is, and she looks like she just walked out of the 1920's.]

They tell me I am on a ship. It is none that I have ever seen, though the last ship to make any sort of headlines sank. [A faulty smile, disapproval is written on her face.]

This isn't my home. No aged wood or fine cushions, no. Just-- this. [Her head turns, but not enough to see the bullet wound in the back of her head.]

Suffice it to say but at least my pathetic husband isn't at the bottom of it. This time. No. Surely the blasted thing would have sunk itself. [There's a frown. She half wonders where Charles got to, but it doesn't matter. Not really.]

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You talkin' about the Titanic?

[Other than the Lusitania, it's the only famous ship he knows of.]

If it's any help, I don't think there are icebergs in space. Only those huge rock-things.

I am, indeed. I remember tale of it being unsinkable, too. [She scoffs.]

Didn't take 'em too long to figure out they were wrong about that, huh? I don't think any more boats have tried boastin' about that since.

They say this ship is unsinkable. I don't believe their boasts.

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It's not in water, so does that really count? No clue what's keepin' it up in the sky, though.

They tell me it isn't in the sky, but space itself. How fantastical.

Yeah. It's crazy.

[He sits back in his chair, sighing.]

Who'd even wanna go to space?

[As far as Firo knows, there's nothing worth it out here.]

Apparently these people. [She hums. She's never had any desire, but the thought of being outside of her house-- it's odd.]

I wish they coulda' asked us if we wanted to go before they dragged us here.

How long have you been here?

[It took him more than a month to get used to waking up in this place.]

Oh, a few days. I just got here.

[He winces sympathetically.]

That's rough. How're you doin' with settlin' in?

Well enough, I suppose. [She forgets where she is at time and has fits of crying, so no different than home.]

[He nods.]

Have you got everything you need? I don't know my way around the entire place yet, but I might be able to give you a hand if you need to find somethin'.

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