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[jurisimpudent]

[Edgeworth sounds characteristically brisk and serious.]

I would like to ask everyone to take a moment to speak here - or to leave a text message - about what it is that they most wish to get home to, or what it is they most appreciate here.

There's a jump approaching, and not too long from now. As we all know, jumps rarely bring good things - they herald lost friends, new disasters. This is a difficult life we have here aboard this ship - one fraught with pain, with misery, with fear. It's far too easy to become lost in the morass of despair. It's too easy, with each jump, to think: what if I don't? What if I do not go to the jump bay? What if I simply sit back and let it all end?

I ask that you, in this post, remind everyone why it's worth it to keep on. Why it's worth it to suffer through these jumps, month after month, and why it's worth it to keep cautious and not just go seeking our death in those hallways, and why it's worth it to keep trying to make life better here. As we approach this new jump, as we prepare ourselves to welcome and console these new arrivals, let us remember why we should continue to fight.

Thank you all for your attention and cooperation.

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[jurisimpudent]

Thank you, sir. We've all been here an immensely long time, and time can undermine our memory of what does truly matter, of what there is to get back to.

[northerner]

Do you ever waver, Miles? Do you ever despair of returning home?

[jurisimpudent]

I -

[Every single day.]

I try not to let such thoughts intrude. They're harmful.

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[northerner]

Then you're an example to all. I cannot deny, I have sometimes wondered whether I will return.

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[jurisimpudent]

[Now he feels a touch guilty.]

You shouldn't, sir. It's just a matter of persevering.

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[northerner]

But to what end?

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[jurisimpudent]

To the end, indeed, of simply surviving. To see home again or to not. Is that not worthwhile?

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[northerner]

Aye.

[ a pause, and. ]

You have spoken so very little of your home to me, Miles, while I have told you much of mine. Will you tell me of it?

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[jurisimpudent]

My home?

[The question takes him by surprise; those who are interested are usually few and far between. Still, after a moment, he nods.]

If you - wish. Is there anything in particular you'd like to know?

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[northerner]

Of the place you call home, and of your House, if it please you to speak of them.

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[jurisimpudent]

Forgive me, for the terminology - by "house," do you mean the place where I reside, or do you mean my family?

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[northerner]

Your family. My apologies, I should have been more clear.

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[jurisimpudent]

Not at all. I just wanted to be certain.

[He takes in a breath.]

I'm from a place called Los Angeles. It's a city on the sea, surrounded by mountains. Very populous, and if I might be so bold as to say so, possibly the most beautiful place in the world. It's warm there, and the sun shines most days of the year.

[A slight pause, and then he continues.]

As for my family...Before their deaths, my...father was a lawyer like myself, and my mother a teacher. My surname is Edgeworth, but I was - I was raised by the von Karma family.

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[northerner]

It sounds lovely. My lady mother would have liked such a place. She always found the North colder than she'd like.

You lost your family. I am sorry, Miles. I didn't know.

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[jurisimpudent]

[For a moment, Edgeworth struggles with his desire to pity himself; he eventually pushes it down.]

There are few here who have not, in their lives, been touched by some sort of - difficulty. Mine, at least, was many years ago. And mine at least was...It did give me drive.

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[northerner]

It's no easy thing, no matter how much time passes.

[ a pause, and then. ]

When we spoke of my lord father, I was harsher than I should have been. I'm sorry for it.

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[jurisimpudent]

[A pause, and then - ]

For...years after my father died, if anyone thought to so much as mention his murder to me, or even mention him as he was, I simply...I refused to speak with them. At all. It has not been so long for you, but you're better with it than I was.

You were reasonable. No offense was taken.

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[northerner]

I have no choice but to be. Grief must wait until the war is won.

[ and it waited still, didn't it? ]

Still, I'd not have spoken so had I known. I cannot imagine the pain of losing both your parents.

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[jurisimpudent]

I...hardly knew my mother. I was too young to really comprehend what had happened when I lost her. So in some ways - that loss was not so very difficult.

[A slight pause - ]

But when I lost my father...I will say, in brief, that I understand what it is like to have your father taken in such a cruel and criminal manner. And I...understand what it is like, to wage a war against those who harmed him.

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[northerner]

And still you argued for her life, when I called for Cersei Lannister's head. Your devotion to justice is...very great.

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[jurisimpudent]

I thank you for saying as much. I...try very hard to be so.

But it is simply easier when one has a distance from the issue; you did not. If my own father's killer showed up on board, I do not know that I could display such dispassion.

[NEVER MIND THAT HE ALREADY IS WHOOPS]

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[northerner]

[ there's a pause. ]

Perhaps you would have. I understand the routes of punishment are different in your land, not much like in mine.

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[jurisimpudent]

[A pause of his own, then:]

Yes. We hold a full trial for them. All are able to argue their case, and an impartial judge rules on their case. Perhaps that is the difference in its entirety: I am accustomed to waiting for justice.

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[northerner]

And what if justice never comes to you?

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[jurisimpudent]

[But Edgeworth shakes his head - ]

It's not like that, precisely. You ask what happens if it does not come to me - but it is not a passive thing. I am the one who brings justice about.