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[momchester]

Where's the Core?

[Mary looks... balanced. And healthy. And happy. And not tense or brittle or on the edge of making horrible life choices. Of course not. No.]

I mean, how do we get to it? Someone has to know. It's probably SERO, at least.

[She tensely lights up a cigarette and sneaks in a short puff, not stopping too long between breaths.]

I've heard things about it being sentient, or- or maybe even alive. I have to know. Doesn't everybody?

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[momchester]

[She switches to video and looks directly at the camera, raising her chin defiantly.]

You know who you're talking to... don't you?

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[magnetic_magpie]

[He watches back, evenly. He's completely calm, for all his posture is steely. It's not hopeful, it's experience.]

I do - which is why I think you don't know what you would be starting. There's no way to do this that isn't openly declaring war on the natives here. That means taking on the local government, SERO, AGI, and the Newcomers who don't wish to be caught up in it. You don't know what you would be starting.

[But he's not refusing to do it.]