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[double_edged]

A moment of your time, Colonel.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Of course.

[double_edged]

I feel... uncertain, about the sudden course of events. What will happen here? What will become of the city, even if we do manage to take it for ourselves?

...I may have very limited time left.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Likely, the city will simply be eradicated. That seems the most likely.

As for what might happen to us, well...

[A pause over the SFC and Jade is thinking.]

I don't know..

[double_edged]

You'll return home, and all will be well.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Are we sure we'll be sent home..?

[double_edged]

It doesn't look like remaining here is an option, even if we do manage to turn the tides.

Er, so to speak.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

I meant in the sense of the possibility of being sent elsewhere. Not to our own homes.

[double_edged]

We made do here. Who's to say we can't manage the same in a new surrounding?

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

It would be nice, wouldn't it? Travelling to another world...

[double_edged]

You need to be returned home, however. There are others waiting.

Aren't there?

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Waiting, for me?

[A chuckle.]

They're waiting for someone else.

[double_edged]

...someone else? I don't follow.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

They're waiting for a miracle, General. For someone to come back from the dead...

[His voice was a little quieter, but he paused only a moment and spoke in a normal tone.]

It would be neat to go elsewhere and explore.

[double_edged]

If we had a miracle every time someone passed, they wouldn't be 'miracles', Colonel.

[But he sees the subject is too much for his friend to get into, so the Lombax follows suit.]

I'd...

Like to explore the rest of this planet as well. Maybe other worlds in his dimension. The both of us could.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

[An uneasy silence. Luke, did you return home already? Without him...?]

Curious... If it were possible.

[Hmm...]

I wonder what lies beyond the Fon Belt of Auldrant.

[double_edged]

I have extensive knowledge of numerous galactic entities, but I must say - this is the first I've heard of a 'Fon Belt'.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

It's... Hm.

[He thinks of an adequate comparison.]

They're like thousands of energized asteroids surrounding the planet.

[double_edged]

'Energized'. Don't you mean 'irradiated'?

[Jade, sweetie, that's kind of dangerous what the hell.]