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[runs_on_batteries]

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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[irrationally]

Sure. I will consider myself warned.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

All right! Then my duty is done, and I can rest easy tonight. You know, easy as anyone can around here.

[irrationally]

[ .. okay, now that's actually an oddly relatable thing to say. Especially since Alice was pretty sure she was the only one here feeling that way.

Not that she shows she agrees though, instead just trying to ask as neutrally as possible-- ]

Do you think something is threatening you at night?

[onehandsomeslickninja]

My conscience, much of the time. Not knowing what tomorrow will bring. I might worry more if people could get into the cabins they didn't live in more easily...

[irrationally]

I think I'd be a little more worried about how crafty some people can be.

[ It almost sounds like she's trying to scare him on purpose, but no, she is very much serious about this. That's just straight up her level of paranoia. ]

[onehandsomeslickninja]

I worry about what other people can do to us as a whole, not me as a person. [Gotta look at the big picture. Even as loud a man as Edge can view the train's inhabitants as a whole, diverse as they might be.]

[irrationally]

Oh?

[ She sounds surprised. Not necessarily that she thought him egotistical enough that it makes this sentiment surprising, but she really thought he seemed too wrapped up in a particular grudge to think much about the big picture like this. ]

Then you do have a lot to worry about. The world isn't so kind.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[Surprise! Edge thinks much more about the big picture than anyone would expect, though maybe if he acted like it more he wouldn't have problems like he does...]

It's on us to make it kinder.

[irrationally]

[ Edge, you just need a PR manager, man.. ]

Well, I do suppose I can't say that isn't a worthwhile endeavour. [ Although a fairly hopeless one, since Alice is much too cynical believe that's possible on the greater scale of things.. ] But perhaps you'd have an easier time doing that here on the train if you didn't try to antagonize that man.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[Hey, his style works for his time and place. If it doesn't work here, this time and place is wrong, then!]

The right way is rarely the easy way.

[Edge thinks about that, then laughs.] Well, it sure is both right and easy for ME to antagonize him, but you're right about the overall goal.

[irrationally]

It's a good thing that you at least see that.

[ That last part, that is. Maybe it'll at least make him find more productive ways to work towards that goal. ]

I'll return to my own business then. Do try to not start more over these things today.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Here's hoping there's no need. Good luck with what you're doing! [Whatever that is!]