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lucky you

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It has given me a very high tolerance for the cold.

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yeah, well
i grew up in a harem on a moon
not much need for heating, they terraformed the shit out of it

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Icy mountains make terraforming a little difficult.

I suppose the warmer weather of New Amsterdam is more to your tastes?

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remind me never to book a holiday there
yeah, guess it is

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It is not exactly a good place to be anymore regardless of weather.

Did your moon have a name?

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too small for it

[ close enough to the truth ]

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Some of them are like that.

Fest. That is the aforementioned snowy planet.

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you don't make it sound very festive

[ shitty jokes are clearly the way to go here, right? ]

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Don't worry, I was not trying to.

[ abso-fucking-lutely!! he huffs a little laugh even if she cannot hear it. ]

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[ so glad they're on the same page ]

which star system are we talking?

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Atrivis sector, in the Outer Rim. If it turns out our galaxies are the same after all this time and we never knew, I am going to laugh.

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wouldn't that be a hell of a coincidence?
but no
doesn't ring a bell
ever heard of the j?

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No. Is that a system?

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starcluster

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Where your moon was?

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yeah

guessing you haven't heard of the quad then, either

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No. Is that another starcluster?

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dwarf planet and its three moons

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And is that where you were before here?

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actually? no
i was in the middle of fucking nowhere

but it's where my ship docks these days

[ present tense, despite the fact that she's here ]

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[ !! ]

Like a starship? Are you a pilot?

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like a starship
her name's lucy

i can fly her, but usually i let johnny do it

[ have you met [Bad username or site: johnny @ jaqobis] yet ]

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[ he has not! this is the most he's learned about dutch since he first arrived and felt what she was feeling. ]

I never had my own ship, but I flew them quite often. Who is Johnny?

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you any good?

[ honestly, it's perhaps the most she's shared with anyone. telling clarke about the green comes close ]

he's [ her platonic life partner, her soul mate, her gravity, her moral compass, family -- yeah, no, she's not sharing that much ] one third of my team, back home

he's here, too

[ and d'avin had left -- but she's not thinking about that. three people on the team, not two. ]