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[A filtered broadcast appears on Luceti's journals on the evening of the 29th.]

Ah. Luceti. It sure has been a while. My, how things change...

[And, oh, how they stay the same. The woman’s voice falls silent for the soft click and gasp of a lighter.]

I hear that not all of you have been playing nicely with my charges; then again, I doubt they made a point to play too nicely, either. [Laughter.] I would bet my last credit that Korras didn't.

Speaking of Blake, could a helpful soul put him on the line? Since the Malnosso shut down their books, it's been...or...blast it, you'll have to do. All of you. Listen -- two days from now, your guests are cleared to return to Kin'cora. Be dears and tell my children they're to line up at your pretty little teleporters. The Organization didn’t see fit to share their schedule but I certainly do see fit to pass it on. Unlike them, I find less entertainment in watching the machines round them up. This way, perhaps only the stragglers will be subjected to that.

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If I said that I did, what would you say? [For now, he'll be overt in his familiarity with the speaker; there were many in Luceti who had never met her before, after all.]

I would call you a fool, Albert. For missing what you can't actually profess to know.

But we both know you're not a fool, so the conversation would be doomed as academic from the start.

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[He would smirk if he could manage right about now.]

Exactly the case. Shall we make reference to you when telling them where they must go?

Not, I think, by any name you have given me.

[The collective 'you'.]

What have they come to refer to you as?

[Puff. Drag.]

You haven't wheedled it out of them, yet? [She laughs, and it isn't cruel laughter. But it's hard to deny her amusement.]

It's darling, really. Monroe. Of course, I had to have one of them explain it to me...

I like to hear you confirm. [Since he had made it a task of his to try gathering information from the refugees.] 'Angelic' describes many people around here, after all.

It sounds as if you did not go very far at all. [Still in Region Six, if the information supplied was correct.]

On the contrary, I went very far indeed. My return's been a recent one. And timely, too, from the sound of it.

Timely indeed. It seems our ... 'cultures' clash. [There's definitely a wry note there.]

Youth breeds rebellion. They're still children, Albert. The sheer effort of their mistrust hasn't exhausted them. Yet.

You need not remind me; I remember that time quite well. At least it seems they made contact with you before the invasion occurred.

[How would they have reacted if the Third Party had entered the barrier without anyone other than the Count talking to them?]

Indeed. They needed to...see the other side, as it were.

[...Puff.] We were making good headway before the invasion happened.

As promising as this enclosure?

Maybe. Potentially. Feeling threatened?

Having another promising enclosure would explain Luceti being expected to fall in line and enfolded into draft happenings more than before.

[While he keeps his tone light, he finds himself considering just how much more disposable they would be in such a situation.]

Mmhm. [You can almost hear the shrug.] Of course, after seeing the perks of being promising? I suspect my Kin'corans are newly aware of what their cooperation might be worth.

Electricity, for one thing.

You keep referring to them as yours. Is their cooperation with the Organization in your best interests now?

More like...their cooperation with me is not in the Organization's best interests.

Well. [Drag. Puff.] Their current best interests. Things have changed on the outside, too.

Enough that Count Zompano regained control of this enclosure, it seems.

Will you divulge anything, or is that too much to ask? [He's played this game enough times by now.]

That greatly depends upon the anything. For example? You should absolutely ask me what the Count's been up to, lately...

He has been curiously silent through these entire events. [...] What happened?

[Her smirk is audible.]

No one knows. It's quite the unsolved mystery.

That is to say, the truth would be rather damaging. [How interesting. From what they had seen, Zompano was well-insulated against cultist attacks. Meaning whatever had happened to him was internally plotted.] Has the Organization taken measures to replace him?

Oh, I've no doubt that the interested parties are still scrambling to rally their support.

[He has to raise a brow at that.]

Interested parties?

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