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[muscovy]

[The feed shows a boy of maybe six or seven, sitting in the gardens with a sheet of paper lying before him - the list of things that he wants to address. He's wearing the ship's uniform and his long hair is braided in a complicated pattern and adorned with little red, white and blue pearls.]

If there is someone who always comes when we call them, and they don't come here, is there a way to make them come? Where I was before, you could do a task and get a reward, there should be something like that here as well, yes? Even though there are no regents, but we are still pulled to this ship, so it has to be similar.

[He tried to call the General because one of the other residents of the ship, Glacius, would have liked to meet him and he didn't come, and as much as he doesn't like the cold, not having General Winter at his disposal means a pretty major loss of safety and that would be a lot of loss of potential "fire"power to make up for. It makes things a lot scarier.]

And I have a few other things, too. [He holds up a hand, four fingers stretched out.]

Are there any people from East of Poland and Lithuania and west of Mongolia here? Or who feel like they belong there in one way or the other. [One finger is bent down, and he giggles when it is a bit complicated to keep the other three up - but it works out in the end.]

I need to talk to William Tsang, but I don't know what he looks like so I couldn't find him. [Asking might have gone a long way but the scary looking old woman that he saw around in the med bay when he stalked it made him continue stalking instead of taking heart and asking someone, and when you don't know whom you're looking for...] So you should tell me what he looks like, yes? [Another finger goes, and this one needs to be held down by the thumb so the remaining two can go up again.]

Does anyone have a set of balanced daggers for fighting that they don't need? I can offer customized knitted products for a trade, or maybe something else if that doesn't work.

[And then he stops abruptly, his eyes going wide before narrowing and tears appearing in the corners, and he raises both hands to hold his head. When he lowers them again a bit later, a trickle of blood has started to run out of his nose, but he isn't noticing it yet, looking left and right with a nervous glance (is there someone who did this?) before snuffling and fixing the smile back on his face and continuing, though his eyes are still a bit onfocused.]

We looked in the kitchens and there are good knives, but they aren't balanced right. [He suddenly remembers that he was showing the bullet points on his hand and raises his hand, only his little finger pointing up now.]

And I want to learn things. I can play the harp a bit, but I want to learn more about it so it gets nicer. So if you know how to play the harp, you should teach me. And I want to learn how to shoot a firearm because they work everywhere here, yes? And I want to get better with the bow and my daggers, too, so if you are very good at fighting with them you should teach it to me, too. Because children should learn things, yes? [So adults obviously have the duty to teach them. He peers down at his cheat sheet and then nods and lowers his hand, clasping it together with the other in his lap.

And just smiles at the camera for a little bit before reaching out to turn the feed off - at which point he stops abruptly because blood has dripped from his nose onto the back of his hand and he reaches up in shock to touch his lip and wipe at the blood with hands and sleeves.]

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[dewittinvestigations]

[ UH KID aren't you a little young for daggers and stuff.

But it's the nosebleed that gets his attention. Booker's familiar with nosebleeds; where he comes from, they usually mean someone's dead in an alternate universe, and their mind can't handle the conflicting memories. Good times.

Hopefully this isn't the same thing. ]

It looks like maybe you already got in a fight.

[ He gentles his voice a little, trying not to seem...well, completely gruff and scary and unapproachable. ]

[muscovy]

I didn't!

[Shaking his head quickly. He tried to stay out of trouble since coming here, he wouldn't know why anyone would send him headaches and nosebleeds.]

I haven't done anything that anyone could be mad at me for and put a spell on me! [Or at least nothing that he knows of.]

[dewittinvestigations]

Okay, okay. I believe you.

[ Oops. He's not great with kids. Booker holds up his hands placatingly. ]

Put a...spell on you?

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[tadashiwashere]

Hey, Muscovy.

[First of all, Tadashi is concerned that Muscovy wants to learn to fight -- what sort of place is this, if it has a little kid wanting to learn how to use those kinda of weapons? Where's his aunt that he mentioned?

Second, the blood.

Tadashi offers a small smile.]

You okay, buddy?

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[muscovy]

[Okay trying to wipe away this blood really quickly (obviously just getting it all over himself instead. It's not much, but it still makes for a pretty amazing amount of soiled skin and cloth.

He doesn't think that Tadashi would have a reason to send him this, so he tries to act as if it isn't there. His smile would be more convincing if his eyes weren't as scared.]

It has already stopped, I think.

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[tadashiwashere]

[Tadashi's concerned, but he has a good way of masking it with little kids -- he'd heard all the stories about how a kid will look to an adult to see how to react. If the adult is scared, the kid can take that cue to panic.

He nods, but touches his own nose.]

I think you missed a few spots. Do you have someone around to help you get cleaned up? I'm not doing anything right now, so if you want some company...

[Around now is when he really misses having Baymax around.]

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[sweetmotherofgod]

[Even with a thumping headache it's not too hard for Heather to piece this one together - William mentioned having seen new Nations on the network, said that there was a little one who was apparently making noises about joining medical.

Of course, neither of them are good enough with history or geography to put together some other conclusions just yet, but hey. Possibly for the best. When she responds her eyes are red and her hair's a mess from having her hand in it constantly, but her tone is quiet and kind.]

I know William. So long as you wanting to find him and you wanting daggers aren't related, I can help you meet him.

[IT'S A JOKE. Mostly.]

Are you Muscovy? I think he might be expecting to hear from you anyway.

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[muscovy]

I need the daggers for Newt, yes? We are training with my daggers and kitchen knives now, but she should have her own ones.

[...and. Oh. His eyes go big at that.]

But the woman said that I had to ask him myself and she wouldn't tell him.

[sweetmotherofgod]

[Oh Christ, there's going to be a knife-wielding kiddie gang on the TQ. That actually gets a smile - it's pretty cute.

Her idea of cute might be a little screwed up.]

Okay. Well, people can see stuff on the networks unless it's marked private, maybe he was watching? It's still a good idea to ask for yourself, though. Lets people know you're really serious.

[storiesandknives]

I'm good with a bow and daggers. I can train you more with them here.

[She's moved on to swords now but elves weren't generally supposed to have weapons so in the past she'd always relied on daggers.]

[muscovy]

When are you free?

[This sounds great! Since she's an elf, she might even have vaguely similar techniques as his father so while he'll learn new things he won't have to start over.]

[vdova]

You mean from the Ukraine or Belarus? [ She's Russian, so it doesn't count. The entire message, actually, has her attention, but she'll focus on this part for now. ]

[muscovy]

John said that the name will be Russia.

What area are Ukraine's and Belarus's?

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[wiped]

[ oh god small unattended child. ]

I know William. I can try to answer your other questions too, if you've already found him.

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[muscovy]

[Wow rude. He's totally not even twenty feet away from his aunt's house!]

I haven't.

A woman said that he already knows that I want to find him but that I should still find him, so you should tell me what he looks like, yes?

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[fertilefeet]

Goodness, little one! So many queries. [She eyes the video for a moment, making sure the faeries aren't there. They hadn't done anything to her, thankfully, but she really wasn't in much of a mood to deal with them and their objecting to her talking to Muscovy. She still had no idea what their problem was, aside from something that happened in "Drabwurld" but that had nothing to do with her as far as she's concerned and she'll happily keep it that way.

The sudden look of pain though and the blood has her attention though. She won't address it immediately, watching to see if it gets worse first. She'd bee suffering some headaches herself, soothing them as best she could with her own powers.]

Artanis perhaps can help you with daggers. I recall that she can work metals and there is a forge on board. And perhaps Leia and I could help you with firearms. She recently gave me a blaster and taught me to use it.

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[muscovy]

She's a smith, too?

[That was a detail that he has never been told about. Maglor's father, his brother, his nephew, that his people in general lean towards such things, all that had been mentioned, but Galadriel...

Plus he's never seen her in anything but pretty white dresses, it simply wouldn't have occurred to him at all.]

Is Leia nice?

[foundafamily]

[The random bleeding is similar to things that have gone on the ship before, so Firo's tried not to get too concerned about it. Things were fine then, so... hopefully they'll be fine now. Hopefully.

It hurts to see a little kid struggling with the same thing, but Firo's not quite sure what to do about it. So he plasters on a smile and just tries to see if he can keep Muscovy distracted.]

I've got an extra knife you can have, if ya want. I can help you practice with 'em too--my Family taught me a lot about knives. Same with shootin'--anybody in Gunnery can help with that, too.

at some point he'll have to explain the meaning of Family |D

[muscovy]

What do you want for the knife?

[And about the rest...] So you know a lot about knives?

[Maglor taught him, and after him Aragorn, so he already has had pretty excellent teachers, but if Firo's family taught him a LOT...] Were the people in your family strong?

And I would like to learn the shooting, too. ...Do those Gunnery people have guns that they don't need?

[forpoland]

[The thought of small children wielding weapons hardly causes him to bat an eye, and the others seem to have dealt with his knife acquiring so let's talk about the other topics they haven't covered]

Is there things in specific you wish to learn? Or a more of a general gaining of knowledge?

[muscovy]

I want to learn more about playing the harp and shooting and fighting with daggers. [But that wasn't the answer, and it occurs to him that there is something else that he would really like to learn more about.] And I want to learn more about Earth's history. [Both to understand the nations from his future, and how people from the future might think about him, and to hear stories of how many friends he will have because that is just a very nice and warm thought.]

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[dogbane]

[Days late, William drags himself out of his psychomotorically-retarded stupor of post-soul acquisition. When his message dings into Muscovy's comm device, he'll see CMO in cherry red letters, glowing, definitively part of William's crew number.

However unwise that may be.]

Hello

how high can you count

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[muscovy]

[Thinking about this for a moment.]

Nine hundred-ninety-nine-thousand nine hundred-ninety-nine. [Someone has never heard of a million)

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[canevenlift]

What's east of Poland and west of Mongolia?

[Is this some weird geography trick... help him.]

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[muscovy]

My house! And that of others, in my time. But England said that I will be very strong in the future so maybe there will be only my house between them when I am big.