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[wingedcrown]

I didn't even stay in those apartments for more than a few weeks and I still got dragged to the side by a bunch of investigators. They wanted to go through the few things I had because someone was convinced that they saw a few people moving boxes out of the Tower apartments and that little girl must have been in one of them.

[She rolls her eyes and folds her arms across her chest.]

And since I was one of the people moving out, I was under suspicion. I missed my dancing class today because of it.

[But as much as she's pissed off at the investigators and all of the people accusing newcomers, she doesn't look ready to push the notion completely under the rug that someone's taken her.]

Does this blame game happen often around here? First it was that virus and now this little girl going missing. Are we always blamed for everything?

[She shifts almost uncomfortably.]

And are we looking for her or are we just sit quietly while people go through our things and give us the evil eye over something we haven't done?

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[doeswhathewants]

Time to rise up and shake off the shackles of oppression. We ought to go burn their houses to the ground and turn them all into garden flamingos.

[wingedcrown]

Oh yeah, because burning down houses will definitely make them think we're innocent.

[...Wait.]

...Garden flamingos?

[doeswhathewants]

If they are going to think us guilty, we might as well give them a reason to.

[A beat]

I like them. They are pink and plastic and interesting. We don't have anything cool like that in Asgard.

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[runebladeknight]

[She looks kind of tired, but it's not from the virus this time. She also looks distinctly unhappy. Some of the things her co-workers have done . . . Honestly.]

Anytime something bad happens around here, a good share of people are all-too quick and willing to blame it on Newcomers.

[wingedcrown]

No, we should try to prove that we're not guilty. Why would we want to give them more of a reason to hate us?

Asgard? ...You know that flamingos are real too, right?

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[wingedcrown]

That's totally unfair. What did we ever do to them?

[doeswhathewants]

They will never believe we are innocent. You have to understand, on an inescapable island, there is always an outgroup. If we were not here, they would divide themselves in some way, one group the desirable group, the other group, the one the desirable group hates. Or even limit it to one person or a handful of people. Trust me, I know these things.

[Arches a brow.] I know. I just... have not seen a real one before. But the plastic ones are nifty.

[wingedcrown]

[That's...a pretty rational argument, actually.]

And you know these sorts of things first-hand, I'm guessing?

I bet they're at the zoo. Maybe. I've never seen them back in New York but I know there were some zoos that kept them back home.

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[in_a_dark_wood]

[Flopped on a couch]

They went through my shit too.

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[wingedcrown]

Assholes. And they can just do that?

[doeswhathewants]

[He knows, oh how he knows.]

I'm the outgroup at home. [Just him. Terrible, really.]

You are from New York? I visit there at times. The Norse exhibit at the Met is my favorite. I like to correct things now and then when I find errors.

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[runebladeknight]

Collectively? We got pulled in by the Core. Yeah, that's about it. And apparently we steal their jobs and want to either rule the island or kill everyone on it. Or something. It's too tiring too keep up with all the stupidity.

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[in_a_dark_wood]

Guess so. 'Cause they did it.

[He sits up, scratching his head.]

I've been lookin'.

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[madeinoblivion]

If they can pin anything on us, they will.

I'm actually surprised they didn't try to arrest Sora.

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[A wide grin!]

What sort of dance do you do?

[wingedcrown]

...I'm sorry.

[Poor kid.]

I lived there for a while, yeah. I'm originally from New Orleans. [A beat.] ...What do you mean, you "correct" things? Who are you?

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[wingedcrown]

But none of that's even our fault.

[She sighs ruefully.]

These people are idiots.

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[wingedcrown]

[She shakes her head but then turns her attention to him.]

And no luck, right?

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[wingedcrown]

Sora?

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[wingedcrown]

Ballet, mostly. I know a little jazz and I go clubbing a lot but...that's not exactly what I've been trained in.

[doeswhathewants]

So am I.

[You have no idea.]

Ah! I have always wanted to visit there. Learn Voodoo. Avoid certain people there, though. Frightening. And I am Loki, Norse God of Poor Life Choices.

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[madeinoblivion]

Yeah. The girl was at his fish booth when she disappeared.

Maybe Xeno E. Mao kidnapped her.

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[runebladeknight]

They are.

And they're barring me from officially investigating this on the supposition that as a Newcomer, I'll be biased in favour of the Newcomer community. [Does she sound bitter? Because she is.]

[And now she just sounds sarcastic.] Because they're being completely objective, of course.

[Pointing out that it could possibly have been a native is totally biased, right? She really hates some of her superiors.]

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[in_a_dark_wood]

None yet.

[He sighs]

And it's hard, you know? Trying to help people who don't want your help.

[wingedcrown]

I'd stay away from the Voodoo, personally.

[Not fun.]

...You're joking, right? You're-- Isn't all of that myth and stuff?