HAWKS PALACE

[doublefried]

The process of entering the palace is... smooth. Painless.


You are falling, but it's not scary at the speed you're going. You drop through the pre-dawn sky like a feather, light and easy on a breeze, descending towards a bright and multicolored island in a sea of dark trees.

When you land, you are somewhere new.

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[featherbeaned]

You haven't? How come?

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[doublefried]

"You were out there, weren't you?"

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[featherbeaned]

Yyyyyes? In the museum.

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[doublefried]

"If that's all you've seen, then you haven't seen enough of it for the explanation to make sense."

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[featherbeaned]

Try anyways?

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[doublefried]

"Heroes are a commodity. They're neatly packed up and sold to society to keep them happy, and those people keep on buying. You don't think a new shirt is a person, do you?"

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[featherbeaned]

[ wrinkles her nose, lip curling ]

... Is that why the "Worst Villain" exhibit was all ... [ what is the word, WHAT is the WORD ] ... sanitised? On the surface?

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[doublefried]

She LAUGHS BITTERLY.

"Heroes don't kill. They're just perfect and spotless and bad guys just go away on their own."

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[featherbeaned]

[ WHAT THE BEJEEZUS ]

But.

But why though.

You can't shove blood under a rug??

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[doublefried]

"I wonder about that."

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[featherbeaned]

[ a low, discontented rumble ]

... Is that why you're down here? Being shoved under the rug?

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[doublefried]

"I did their dirty work my whole life. Until it got too dirty, and then..."

She gestures at the like. Prison cell she's in.

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[featherbeaned]

[ RUMBLE grumble ]

And Hawks ...?

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[doublefried]

"Is their golden boy. They'll sell him and sell him and sell him until there's nothing left to sell. Really using every part of the bird, you could say."

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[featherbeaned]

[ the end of her tail twitches ]

[ twitch TWITCH TWITCH like an oversized, annoyed cat ]

...

I've only just met him, and it's not really my place to go 'round pushing my opinions on him ... but I think I really wanna reach out to him. If I can.

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[doublefried]

"Well, I think he's off hiding somewhere. All I can tell you is it's not in this cell."

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[featherbeaned]

[ MORE TWITCHY TAIL ]

I'll go see what I can see ... [ but first ] What's your name? I'm Unisonya.

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[doublefried]

"They called me Lady Nagant."

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[featherbeaned]

What did you call you? Do call you?

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[doublefried]

"... My name's Kaina Tsutsumi."

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[featherbeaned]

I'll come back to talk t'you some more if I can, Kaina Tsutsumi.

[ with a brief smile, she goes to examine EXIT ----> ]

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[doublefried]

She lazily waves.

EXIT ---> leads directly into a thick wall of cage bars.

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[featherbeaned]

[ DISLIKE ]






[ shrinks down to the size of a dormouse, attempts to wiggle through ]

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[doublefried]

W-Well... that does it...