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[signatures]

I hear you lot rather enjoyed yourselves down there. You're practically celebrities among the rest of us: outpost travelers, survivors, whatever you'd like to call it, I'll not limit your labeled imagination on however you'd like to spin it. I'd be rather interested in hearing about what it is those who stayed in their cozy cabins missed, however - make use of that teahouse or other freshly stocked supplies we've the habit of squandering for sake of entertainment or distraction from personal misery on this boat. Supposing the rest of it isn't all freezedried, in any case.

Considering we've no windows, if anyone managed to take pictures or put together some creative art for your journey, I'm sure the rest of us are aching for some sort of blatant confirmation of where we might happen to be. Or do none of you know how to exactly place the progress of this fine vessel? I'll be frank, the whole sending untrained passengers into space bit is a little out of my league.

Actually, I've yet to be told upfront how those pods operate. Or where people go when they happen to disappear - unless someone keeps feeding them to the manticores. Or, honestly, any sort of satisfactory answer to most of the questions I still have even after a few months of this place.

I can't be the only one unwilling to settle with an empty hand, can I?

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[hisfinestact]

[ In which Jaime is smug, British Westerosi, and also smug. ]

"Creative art" interpretations, is it? Oh, this is going to go well.

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[signatures]

[ Jaime there's not the room for both of them on this ship! ]

I'll even paste the stick figure creations on the walls of this place; no interpretation is a wrong interpretation, just varying degrees of terrible.

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[hisfinestact]

[ As long as we're not both grumpy and/or smug at the same time, we'll be fine. ]

You say that before seeing any of the artistic output the people around here are capable of. That's either very brave or very short-sighted.

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[signatures]

I think the effort put into it, if I inspire people into doing so anyway, would be far more rewarding to me than the final product itself.

But I'm guessing no one's created a machine to put thought to paper that directly yet.

[majestyofthethrone]

They go away.

[signatures]

i gather that.

[majestyofthethrone]

I wish I didn't want to know where.

[signatures]

It would make life too easy if none of us wanted any answers for curiousity

[majestyofthethrone]

I hope they aren't food for the manticores. Or food for us.

[signatures]

considering the general lack of availability for fresh meat here I think we'll be all right until we're suddenly grilling steaks.

The manticore part is far more realistic.

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[hisfinestact]

You want answers, but you say the effort is worth more to you than the final product. I think I sense a contradiction there.

[majestyofthethrone]

What do the wolves eat?

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[signatures]

Or sarcasm.

But that doesn't negate the fact that someone putting forth the effort to draw me a picture would still be rather entertaining.

[signatures]

maybe that girls birds.

[majestyofthethrone]

Alayne, her name is Alayne.

They're too big for that.

Or maybe we're just being shuttled into space. The human body isn't designed to withstand that kind of vacuum, you know. Before you even recognized the cold your insides would collapse.

[signatures]

[ Alayne, then. Eames keeps it in mind. ]

for the same reasoning the ship decided to sprout itself a maze ?

[majestyofthethrone]

Why not?

[signatures]

I could buy it.

the Smile guy though seems to prefer making a show out of things, not just letting people slip out on the wayside

[majestyofthethrone]

Nothing came from those lists.

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[hisfinestact]

I won't deny that. Actually, I rather hope someone does come through for you. I could use the laugh myself.

[signatures]

either "not yet" or a flare of drama to get us paranoid.

[majestyofthethrone]

It wasn't people who were immune or people who got sick or anything.

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[signatures]

We'll keep our fingers and toes crossed and hope for the best.

[signatures]

how do we know it had anything to do with sickness or the cure ?

Could be for something else entirely.

[majestyofthethrone]

Everything else he said was about the illness. It's probability.

There aren't any answers. People die and we still don't understand things.