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[betterthnaliens.livejournal.com]

[Seattle Colony! Home to both Julia and Christine. For Christine, at least, it's been a long time since she came home. Not since those days before joining Danconias Phillips. But, things have changed since those days. She's no longer boastful towards other Irgelions, she's much more in control of her ego.

And she has someone important in her life in the form of Julia herself.

That one still surprises her, then again, maybe it was something that was more of a foregone conclusion. She shook her head a little bit, pushing that to the side and focus more on the task at hand - being home.]

It's been quite awhile... it feels good to be home again!

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[betterthnaliens.livejournal.com]

Victor... stop this... this is insane, even for you...!

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[And at that, Victor laughed.]

Confession time, Chrissy.

Biggest reason I became your family bodyguard? Chance to kill Irgelions. Totally hate them and all their kind... been a member of Thaumata for years even! Even put in a good word for you a while back when you were working for us...

... Not that you knew, of course.

[betterthnaliens.livejournal.com]

Wh-what? [And now things are starting to become clearer.]

You... why?! This doesn't make sense! All of this just to kill...

[Taking the Solstice, kidnapping her... Christine's eyes go wide]

NO! I WON'T LET YOUR HURT THEM! I WON'T LET YOU HURT JULIA!

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[And at that Victor just backs off, holding his hands up.]

Now now, Chrissy! This isn't about killing Julia... of course if it happens that'll be one big thorn out of our side!

This is about dealing more with those pesky DSSD people who came to discuss things with her! In all of that confusion regarding Danconias, Herrera Futuristics has its autonomy back... can't have that especially when they're making things worse on us.

Besides, which would you rather lose? That Irgelion or your parents?

[betterthnaliens.livejournal.com]

[Christine growls at Victor. This was extremely petty, even for her.]

...you're nothing but a monster, Victor!

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And sticks and stones never broke my bones, Chrissy, so no offense taken.

But I'll be honest with you... it's not like we're gonna kill your parents, far from it! They won't be back until tomorrow anyways; doing a conference at some other colony. But it's more their reputation.

I remember you were really young when your mom was running for election here. Boy oh boy I was hoping that Irgelion she was against would do something stupid... but he didn't, and we had to keep things clean.

But your mom was running out of money. She was even gonna blow your college tuition in the campaign, can you believe it?

... But then here came along Thaumata, with some money and some affiliates that would give her the edge.

... See where I'm going with this, Chrissy?

[betterthnaliens.livejournal.com]

...

[Thaumata helped her win. If they hadn't she wouldn't be here. None of this made sense anymore. Not that it had to begin with.]

No... no, it... I...

[she's a little stunned by it all, Victor.]

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We're not asking for much... just the chance for you to change your mind. Just do that, and that little truth about how Administrator Bianca got in bed with a bunch of xenophobes to win an election -metaphorically of course- will never be known to the world at large.

All we need for you, Chrissy, is to just sit inside of the Solstice... the AI will take care of everything else.