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[dedikated]

Kate Galloway (24)Hate these things. Just talk to me.

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[sanator]

Why do you hate it? It seems like a nice idea.

I probably need a hand with everything to do with these devices.

[dedikated]

Not good at writing descriptions and worse at checking my phone.

( Which is true. These messages are coming quickly for her - probably with a couple of hours delay between them - but that's because this city is still new and she has relatively little to do. )

Thought a place like this would have offered a guide on them. Unless they want you to try and make friends this way.

( Get people to teach you, become close? She could see them trying. )

[sanator]

Oh okay I understand that part. I have mine set to super loud. And it vibrates! Its like my decoder ring, its pretty cool.

[Thom was actually responding pretty fast, mostly because he was a giant loser with relatively few things to do in his day-to-day here.]

I thought that was the whole point? To make friends with the app? Or cuddle partners.

[dedikated]

Decoder ring?

( She's curious. And there was some logic to her earlier comment, but wherever it was going seems like a pointless endeavour, too much explanation. She's more interested in what he's mentioned. )

[sanator]

Yeah my League decoder ring... it vibrates when there's a league emergency! [In which Thom clarifies nothing because apparently he's just that kind of guy.]

[dedikated]

League of what? Can't imagine there's that much urgent in football. Unless it's the transfer window.

( What, she likes watching sports nearly as much as she likes doing them. )

[sanator]

League of Heroes!
And I'm more of a basketball guy... but I don't need a ring for that.

[dedikated]

Never had the chance to watch much basketball.

( It's obscurely broadcast and there's not that many pubs that show it. )

[sanator]

Wow that's a shame, its a cool sport. I was on my varsity team... until they kicked me off. [Thom had been kicked out of a lot of things recently.]

[dedikated]

Too good for them?

( Look she's trying to find a good spin on what you're saying it's something. )

[sanator]

Too gay for them. [Mic drop.]

[dedikated]

( If only you could see the expression on her face, dude. )

That's bullshit. Didn't know we played sports with our genitals.

[sanator]

Apparently we superhero with them too, it was enough to get me kicked out of the League. [Not that he's a bitter betty or anything, he was just recently learning that in most societies that aren't his own, it wasn't an okay thing to have happened.]

[dedikated]

( She can honestly say, that for all the shit The Agency have pulled - the ridiculous hours, the sadistic punishments, the agenda that erred closer to genocide than justice - they've never pried into the sex lives of any of its members.

(And for that? She's glad. Not just for herself, but for Diana and Alicia and everything they've built. For their entire group, all of them anything but straight.) )

Shit. Better not be any of that here.

( She wants to say there won't be, but she's not optimistic enough. )

[sanator]

I hope there isn't... so far though, everyone seems nice.
Its like most worlds have the exact opposite. [And Thom was hopeful. After all, he'd been shown kindness here that he'd never anticipated back home, the kinds of things that had become incredibly unfamiliar to him in recent weeks back in his own world.]

[dedikated]

Wasn't a problem back home. They just wanted people capable of working.

( And she never paid enough attention to know for sure what things were like outside of her bubble of work and friends. )

[sanator]

What do you mean? [Because that was quite a strange statement to be made as a reason to ignore homophobia.]

[dedikated]

Job wasn't asking who we sleep with.

( One day, maybe, she'll learn to speak in a way that's clear. Maybe. )

[sanator]

Oh, right... I mean I don't think a lot of jobs ask that.
I work as a bus boy and they never asked that at the interview.

[Thom is ridiculously gullible and takes too much at face value, after all.]

[dedikated]

( Well, at least there's that. )

Would be weird if it were an issue here. Could be wrong but this place seems as hippie as the last one.

[sanator]

As the last one? This isn't your first experience with this kind of thing?

[dedikated]

What that means, yeah.
Last place decided to stop doing it, though.

[sanator]

Decided to stop doing what? Collecting people, generating positive energy? [He doesn't understand the mechanics of any of this after all.]

[dedikated]

Essentially. Not sure exactly why. Just said we could all go.

( She didn't pay that much attention to the details, just that her wish would be granted and she could go home. Which was fine until Cadelle approached her, set off the worry that Eudio might find some way to screw her over.

And so, she ended up here, reinforcing everything she asked for. She'll get back and everything will be fine. )

[sanator]

I hope they don't do that here, I'm kinda banking on this whole wish thing.. [Because for Thom while this whole thing was incredibly new to him, there was a certain degree of usefulness in it all. He was at a stage in his life now that he could do with his mother's presence and more importantly, her visible presence now that the interactions they had seemed so false.]