[through Rakka's network ID]

[vice_captain]

[The feed comes on to two women: Maryann Young and, in the background and a bit off to the side, real!Rakka who is watching Mrs Young closely.

The alien gives the network a brief, polite business smile before speaking up, a crease of confusion between her eyes.]

Your kind is illogical. You worry for the well-being of one being yet do not hesitate to murder another being that is essentially of the same nature.

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[purestambition]

...Miss Young.

[Oh, this is. Foreboding.]

To what do we owe the pleasure?

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[vice_captain]

According to your actions in "Lapland", you should have attempted to annihilate all "wolptertinger" and "copies of yourselves". Yet that is not what you did.

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[purestambition]

I believe you will have to elaborate.

I have not taken any actions to raise my sword with the intent to kill against anything but the giant creatures we have discussed. [Well, and monster Raye the one time, but that's neither here nor there.] In fact, I expressed precisely the opposite to people when we acted in Lapland. Simply because we did not know the nature of that which we faced.

Much like the position we are in now.

Which tells me you know something we do not.

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[solvethepuzzle]

[... Well this is certainly foreboding. He steadies himself, flattens his voice.]

If you could elaborate on this, please?

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[vice_captain]

Logically, the same kind of being should facilitate the same kind of response in a given group. Yet your group responds in very different ways to the same phenomenon in "Lapland" and "Germany and Austria".

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[solvethepuzzle]

[Same phenomenon?]

So the entities in those areas are the same. What process did you use to determine this? It's possible that given the widely differing forms they've taken, those involved did not realize it.

[scarlet_devil]

What are you doing with Rakka?

[Here is one vampire who is rather protective of her friends...]

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[purestambition]

If she speaks of that which I think, you would do well not to antagonize her with Rakka present. The way these aliens have acted until now, I am fairly certain she is in no imminent danger.

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[scarlet_devil]

Fair enough. You'll excuse me if I want to keep an eye on her, given what we know.

[vice_captain]

I asked her to assist me, and she agreed.

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[scarlet_devil]

[She glances towards Rakka, trying to see if she's really had let this alien woman on the network.]

It's... rather unexpected.

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[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Hey, look Emi, I don't know what's going on here, but Rakka is our friend and they want information on what happened. Most of us weren't trying to kill but they wanted to know why we treated them differently.

Do we really want to risk her in danger because of something kept close to the chest? I was there, I don't want to throw you under the bus, but I'm asking this for Rakka's sake, and for the sake of getting closer to answers...

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[scarlet_devil]

None of us wants to see Rakka get hurt. I don't want to be the cause of that, and besides, that'd piss off Raye.

[Fortunately, Rakka is more important to Emi than not admitting a mistake.]

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[ruleorserve]

That is often the way of humanity. Lines drawn between one and another. But if I may ask, what's prompted this particular comment?

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[vice_captain]

The events that have taken place in "Lapland" - and also "Locke City", I might say-, and their comparison with what has or has not happened in "Austria and Germany". They do not match.

What can you tell me about humanity drawing such lines?

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[originaloddcouple]

...I don't get it? Also is Rakka okay?

Are you okay.

Please be okay.

[Probably their quietest level of panic to date.]

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[charcoalfeather]

[Rakka steps into view a bit more, letting herself be heard however briefly.]

I'm okay, guys. Everything's fine!

[right now, anyways.]

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[vice_captain]

Be more precise.

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[dragon_blossom]

[ Marina gives a moment of more or less glaring at Maryann, looking over at Rakka with a small smile, before she settles back on a bed. ]

Lady, you should pick up some war history books.

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[vice_captain]

What do you mean?

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[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Well, this... this instantly sends alarm bells ringing in her head. She's already kind of leery about these alien weirdos and seeing Rakka with one of them... one of them asking a question like that. Her blood runs a little cold. It takes some urging from Senketsu, also watching the feed from where she's wearing him, but she at least manages to not open this up by threatening the smash the bitch flat if she even touches her girlfriend.

Instead....]

What the fuck are you even talking about?

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[vice_captain]

You and your comrades, and the distinctions which you make when dealing with the same phenomenon in different areas.

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[charcoalfeather]

[Oh... Raye. Rakka knew somehow that Raye wouldn't like this; not even she did, honestly. The alien woman seemed to have good intentions... but it still felt as though she was invading the network a bit. It left a glum look on her face, but she tried to give her girlfriend a smile.

Don't worry, please.]

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[dead_black_eyes]

It's much easier to kill monsters when they aren't wearing our own faces. Nature or otherwise, it is a significant and highly relevant difference.

[There's muffled pleading very close to him. Pay it no mind. He's certainly not letting it bother him.]

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[vice_captain]

In what way is it easier?

[She hears that, but doesn't comment on it... at least not yet.]