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Aye. Their impure practices are an affront to the Golden Order. [ one can imagine these words being spoken with fervent piety, but Messmer recites them like he's reading someone's takeout order - passionless and detached. ] In the name of my mother, Queen Marika the Eternal, I hath lead the charge against them.
[ they're in a sort of cool deep-sea section now!! There are big whale skeletons hanging above them, and even a huge replica of a colossal squid. ]
[ but... Messmer glances over at her, waiting to hear the rest of her sentence, only to find her staring up at the new critters. He glances upwards, as do his two snakes. It's somewhere between cute and weird. ]
Beasts of the abyssal deep.
[ not that he's ever, like, been out on the ocean, but he's seen plenty of giant land octopuses. ]
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Aye. Their impure practices are an affront to the Golden Order. [ one can imagine these words being spoken with fervent piety, but Messmer recites them like he's reading someone's takeout order - passionless and detached. ] In the name of my mother, Queen Marika the Eternal, I hath lead the charge against them.
[ they're in a sort of cool deep-sea section now!! There are big whale skeletons hanging above them, and even a huge replica of a colossal squid. ]
Perhaps thou thinkest it cruel.
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[ If they're not, then what right would anyone have just because they disagree with the way they live?
Serpilia is paying more attention now, looking a bit more unnerved by what she's seeing than she did in the other area. ]
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Beasts of the abyssal deep.
[ not that he's ever, like, been out on the ocean, but he's seen plenty of giant land octopuses. ]
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[ She looks up, and-- oh his snakes are a little cute, aren't they? ]
They're not quite like anything I've seen before, but then again very few people really risk going out into the ocean.