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Good evening, Voidtreckers. I'd like to announce a council meeting in three days. It's overdue and I believe we have a number of items to discuss.

Please council members take some time over the next few days to come up with and notify me of topics we need to discuss so I can prepare an agenda. If anyone who is not a council member feels strongly about a certain topic we should consider, either tell me or seek out a council member so they may relay the information.

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Then why don't we put it to a vote.

I'm all for people attending and asking questions.

Is that really necessary? You're already recording every word that's said. Isn't there going to be enough scrutiny?

Yeah, it is.

Or we can broadcast it, though with the rate the ICPs get used, that could be a pain.

Yeah broadcasting it would quickly dissolve into chaos. We have already twelve people meeting and this is our first meeting. It'll be chaotic enough as it is.

Only if the moderator doesn't keep control of the meeting. Unless you like chaos.

Anyway, we could always set aside a few carriages next to the meeting car and them, as long as we had a set time limit to the meeting, it should work.

What about a compromise here? We can discuss at this meeting if we'd like all future council meetings to be open or not. We can provide the transcripts. I'll personally offer a Q&A afterward and defend or explain any and all decisions that were made during the meeting.

I'm an advocate of transparency, Eva. I know you and I haven't always seen eye to eye on things, but I promise you I'm not after anything nefarious here. I'm not wanting to make anyone question our legitimacy or our integrity. My goal is only to protect those who have never been in a leadership role like this before and giving them a chance to get a feel for it first.

We will provide transcripts.

[And the mantle of Champion, of businesswoman, of Leader, of experience, settles about her like an old friend.]

We haven't, and we likely never well. One can protect them and still have an open meeting. Set aside a few carriages next to the meeting car, have it broadcast on those ICPs and have a time limit on the meeting. It's what they did when I became Champion at 13 years old.

Technically it was a closed meeting, but it was broadcast on TVs.

The point remains.

So, no compromise then?

[He rolled his eyes.]

I'll see about putting this to a vote.

Look. I know I've been off the council for a while, but I'd say that we've got too many people who don't have to listen to you guys to have closed meetings any more. There's over a hundred people in here, and a lot of 'em didn't even know someone's calling themselves their leader until fifteen minutes ago.

So... have your vote, but something's gonna give.

Excuse you, I've been around plenty. I might be delegating some of the responsibilities like not doing all of the questionnaires because we were getting so many new people every platform, but I'd think you have to be deaf on this train if they didn't know who I was.

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I offered you a way to protect those you wish to protect, and you, self-proclaimed train leader, haven't even considered it.

So no. No compromise.

I'm talking with you, so obviously I'm considering it. This conversation would've ended five minutes ago if I wasn't.

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I'd be all for that, but there's nowhere in this thing that'll fit that many people at once unless you just broadcast over the ICP.

True.

That's likely the better option anyway.

[ She shrugs, one hand on her hip. ]

Not really a fan of clandestine meetings, so... Good luck figuring it out.

[Oh hey, a word Alice doesn't know.]

Oh ah, I beg your pardon, miss, but what does clandestine mean? [Look, she followed along with everything else they talked about, but she has no idea what that word meant.] Does it have something to do with candles? No, I suppose that would be candelstine meetings...

It means to keep something secret and I really don't think we should in this case.

Why would you wish to keep any of your meeting secret? [Alice cannot, at the moment, really fathom what good keeping any information they talk about a secret. Unless it were a surprise party, perhaps, then that would need to be kept secret by virtue of it's nature. But otherwise?] What good does being secretive do you?

I don't know.

[There is a heavy, tired sigh. She hates politics. She'd quit the council, but she was voted in and she refuses to run away because she wants it to not be her problem. That's not what an adult is.] Supposedly to keep those new to such roles protected, but there's was offing that while still having it open after a fashion.

If you ask me, it's a power thing.

... Exactly what roles are being protected? [They still have to get on the train, if anything should be figured out, it should be how to stop that.]

A power thing? [Alice, being seven, has little to no power at all, being a female child of the Victorian era, even less so.] We were all forced onto the train, what power could there possibly be? [WHY ARE ADULTS SO WEIRD?!]

Leadership roles.

[Eva offers a tired smile.]

Popularity? Ego? A wy to dictate how things are run amongst ourselves. I don't know.

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[ Heh. ]

It means... secretive. Behind closed doors.

[Alice was about to ask weren't all meetings were behind closed doors so as to not let in a draft, or worse, mosquitos? But the first answer led her to believe these were different kinds of closed doors. Locked kind of doors, of sorts.]

Why would anyone want the meeting be a secret?

Lots of answers to that. [ Speaking from experience... ] Sometimes it's because the people in the meeting don't know any more than the rest of 'em, and don't want them to know it.

Then why have a meeting at all beyond "we don't know what's going on?" I should think it would be a very short meeting.