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Hmnn.

[He appears to be in in front of one of the housing complexes in Heropa, #39. He appears to be somewhat exasperated, his eyes half-lidded due to the humidity.]

So who am I talking to here? Since they want us all swearing our loyalty to the great and powerful American armed forces I imagine yer all just the canon fodder.

Where's the re-education camps for those who refuse? Cos' I seen all this before. Either survival of the fittest in the isles or they sponge your brain clean. Sounds great don't it? Lovely rehab sessions.

So am I the only one who sees it for what it is? Government check for a roof over our heads if we sign over our soul, yeah? What's the going rate for souls these days?

[A pause]

Hmff. Least this place came with a dog...

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[Alduin was, honestly, only pinged by the mention of souls -- even though the remark was likely said as a jest.]

The worth of a soul depends upon the soul itself. Do you consider yours of value?

[And no comment along the lines of "you're a lion?", because for Alduin that's really nothing unusual.]

How's that work? I figured all souls'd be interchangeable.

[Aaaand he's going to dodge the question because technically? His soul could be worth something on the black market of evil if he went into detail.]

Perhaps for the mundane. Does the soul of one, common and banal, outweigh the same of its class? One is weak, and so is the other, and therefore hardly worth notice.

But the strong-willed and powerful, the unflinching and resilient? Their souls are bright.

If you wanna get a buncha mundane souls to match a soul of some great hero, would you need a buncha them? Or what?

Y'can't see soul brightness, can ya?

[He almost looks amused at that.] It would be like ants taking down a mammoth. They would sting, but would they fell it?

I can.

Prolly not. But there are lots of ants.

[His ears turn back at Alduin's remark, which makes him worried on whether such... Soul light? Could be detected over this phone. His soul having been bonded to that a warrior named Orion, he might just want to avoid this guy.]

Then one need only see where the battle would take them, to answer your question. [Alduin? He never bets on the ants.

He quirks a brow, just slightly. He catches that display of body language.] Does that concern you?

[Guesso. He just nods to that and ponders this metaphor for a second.]

Wait, since everyone on this network's just like us, imports... Probly strong, heroic, wouldn't your soul vision kinda go blind with so many folk running about?

[That does win a mirthless laugh.]

You think all here are strong and heroic?

Kinda prefer to think that they'd snap up a good few of them, yeah.

There are none here bright enough to blind me. [Nor to impress him. Not yet. Though he hasn't been here very long.

And, let's face it, he's a tough critic.]

Such is often the case concerning mortals.

[Mean's he's under the radar. Good. Probably.]

Get back to me if you're surprised, man. I ain't been here long but if they nab someone like Statesman you might be in for a shock.

[Incarnate powers would probably fit the bill of interesting.]

[Probably! He hasn't used this power yet! Though if you ever want him to...]

Statesman? The name means nothing to me.

He's just ultra powerful. Demigod levels of power. Kinda dead though, but there're others like im'.

Was he slain?

[Because ultra-powerful people like that often don't simply roll over and die.]

Someone drained all of his incarnate power from him, and he was killed. That's how I heard it anyway.

[He appears to frown at that, but for whatever reason he doesn't say.]

Is that the world you hail from? Of gods and demigods?

Kinda. According to the story, Zeus set everything in motion by leaving Pandora's Box for someone to find. N' then there's the well of the furies, fountain of the gods... Drink from that and you're nigh unstoppable.

[Hnn.] And what did this Pandora's Box do?

Don't quote me, but the stuff I read said it was this 'light of creation' and 'human creativity' collected from thousands of years or somethin'.

So then tech boomed, and people started gettin' super powers left an' right.

[So, technology and superpowers. From that statement alone, he knows that his world is not the same as his own.]

As well as yourself?

[He hesitates before giving his answer.]

Yeh.

[Why the hesitation? In any case, Alduin doesn't have the tact to not follow up with a question.]

What power do you possess then? What was given to you?

[Wouldn't you like to know?]

Teleporting, mostly. [Which is a lie, but he does say this casually. Best not to show his entire hand.]

[Yes he would, actually. What, he's totally trustworthy.]

Mostly. Hardly impressive if that is mostly all. Perhaps my curiosity is unwarranted, when it concerns worlds unlike mine?

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