Me too... Dick told me about supervillains in his world and - i-it's not like we don't have criminals where I'm from, but... [ Well, they're rare enough that she hasn't had to face anything like this before. ]
Exactly! It's just one street lamp, probably wouldn't have gotten any attention if it didn't happen to be in front of some police guy's house. Not like I knew that.
Really? How come? [ It sounds like he was punished for a crime he did, that seems fair! Escha's world doesn't really have corruption so cops are fine! Ha. ]
Some cops are fine? But some cops know they've got power over you and will use it to be an asshole, or take bribes. And then there's the secret police who'll just torture a guy to death because he wrote something they didn't like.
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Why do you still have that?
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[ Whatever happens tomorrow. ]
... What are you doing?
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Trying to write them poetry.
...it's not going that well. I didn't know them much, so everything I try to write as tribute feels hollow.
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Even if you didn't know them well, I'm sure the sentiment is still meaningful... As people who were stuck in this situation together...
But I'm sorry that it's not going smoothly.
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[And he can't put less than his best into a poem anyway.]
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[ Whatever happened. ]
... But it's normal not to be able to work well in these circumstances, isn't it?
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[He's known death before, yes - he's intimately familiar with how sickness can take the young and undeserving. But murder is different.]
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Me too... Dick told me about supervillains in his world and - i-it's not like we don't have criminals where I'm from, but... [ Well, they're rare enough that she hasn't had to face anything like this before. ]
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[He knows this because he used to do that.]
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Just... Trespassing. That sort of thing.
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[He was, naturally, drunk at the time.]
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[ Her. It's her. Her job is to fix things like that. ]
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[...he's almost always drunk]
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[ But this is a very soft scolding because people are dying so. She can't really bring herself to be mad. ]
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[does that really count when you spent most of those decades not alive chuuya-]
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Okay. At least you didn't collapse an entire historical site. [ So, you know. Could be worse. ]
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Exactly! It's just one street lamp, probably wouldn't have gotten any attention if it didn't happen to be in front of some police guy's house. Not like I knew that.
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[ Escha: Scolds him, but also kind of takes his side. It's fine. ]
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[tortured to death kind of raw deals.]
Still don't like cops.
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Really? How come? [ It sounds like he was punished for a crime he did, that seems fair! Escha's world doesn't really have corruption so cops are fine! Ha. ]
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[yeah uh about that]
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[ But abusing power is different. ITT: Escha learns about institutional corruption, I guess??? ]
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They're assholes hired by more assholes hired by more assholes who think they've got the right to get rid of people who say bad things about them.
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