Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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Uhhh.

[...] Well, sort of, sure. I don't know how to uh, make him quit? I think he'll just be here for a while more.

[she's going to walk harrow through the base to Escape Santa, though.]

[bonetiddies]

If it's harmless, then it's harmless. I wasn't sure. There's been so much that's odd lately. I can't fathom how he ties in.

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It's harmless, for sure. I don't think it ties in at all, actually!

Maybe someone playing a prank, you know? Like, uh, I can't see him, but if other people can, maybe it's someone using a power to mess around. You know?

[bonetiddies]

Ugh. It better not be, because that is not one of the eight I've found.

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Eight... what, powers?

[bonetiddies]

Yes. From the labours task. I've found eight, and that's how many I think there were, so it is very irritating when new ones pop up, evidently from other sources.

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You're practically a detective. No wonder Greed likes you.

[bonetiddies]

Oh. Does he.

[Wait. No, even in this state, she's aware what a pathetic response that was. Moving on.]

It isn't as though I did it on my own. It was Grace who pointed out the math would work best with eight, and Gu Yun has been helping organize our thinking. Unless someone has lied to me, the stupid love arrows had to have come from Megara or Medb, but the stupid fighting power came from nowhere.

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[they seem amused by this.]

People do lie.

[bonetiddies]

Of course they do. That's why I added the caveat.

[She's definitely not blind to that. Also, I, Siz, believe that Yuel did the love arrows but it's not the conclusion Harrow has drawn.]

Tell me this. If I wanted to swap my Oliver Twist power for Aphrodite's Arrow, is that something you could do for me? I don't really think that's how it works, personally.

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Not for that particular power, nope. But like, if you were full up and I wanted to give you something, you could swap one out.

[bonetiddies]

That's what I thought. It isn't swapping between the boons we got for tasks. Or else everyone with Knight Star would have swapped to the power that boils blood. Some of these are a bit unbalanced.

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[shrug.]

I don't know, I think some people would prefer to curse people with funny speech over boiling their blood. It depends on what kind of person you are. Or what you need.

[bonetiddies]

. . . Oh, something else.

Did you tell Yuri the corpses of the dead are being eaten?

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[sigh.]

Yeah, because they are. Don't ask me by what, I'm not telling you unless you figure it out yourself.

[bonetiddies]

I just wanted to know if it that was meant as a reference to Sheila. I know she's eaten at least one. I didn't want everyone to start panicking if that was all it was.

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Oh.

[well.] I mean, she's not not eating them. The bodies are all gone otherwise.

[bonetiddies]

I suppose some people are sentimental when it comes to such things, and might dislike knowing their friends' corpses were being eaten by one of us.

[She says this like it's a very weird thing to believe.]

If I died here, I would be happy to have Sheila eat my corpse. She's a very wonderful person.

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[... a pause.]

You know? I agree with you. Like, if I was going to have someone eat my corpse I guess it might as well go to a good cause? Sheila's great.

[bonetiddies]

Precisely. But others may not view it that way.

[. . .]

Then is that really all there is to the 'corpses are being eaten' information? I don't want to browbeat Yuri out of following a lead, but I don't want anyone to make things difficult for Sheila, either.

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I think that it's something you should look into past Sheila, but we can't help you further than that.

[a sigh.]

Sorry, I know you hate it when I'm vague, but I can't - I can't help more than this.

[bonetiddies]

I don't hate it when you're vague. I only hate it when some of you insist there aren't any questions you can't answer, when there clearly are.

[But.]

If the answer isn't as simple as 'it's just Sheila,' it's worth looking into. That's all I need. Is it related at all to the life support pods?

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[a shrug.]

Seems like it would be, right?

[bonetiddies]

It would seem so, but - those pods contain bodies for all of us, and they don't look like the corpses of the people who died here. So it is odd.

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I don't like that room. [she says, finally.] I stay out of it as much as possible.