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Okay, I got a question - why's there so many kids here? You can't turn a corner without running into an imPort kid.

[This... may be a slight exaggeration. It almost does feel that way to Tiffany, though; she came through the Porter from a totally kid-less environment. She'd seen child visitors to the prison in passing, but hadn't interacted with one in years until coming here - and that's not even touching on her own vague Kid Issues, which are currently heightened after her conversation with Jesse about her past.]

I mean, it just seems kinda cruel, you know? Porting in a bunch of kids without anyone to look after 'em. I mean, unless the people here are meant to look after 'em, but come on. How many of us are the type? And I know I would've missed my mama something fierce if I was taken to a whole new world when I was little; some weird fucking stranger wouldn't've cut it.

... Hell, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong; I could be wrong. Never really knew what to do with kids myself, so it ain't like I know how they think - how y'all think.

So never mind, maybe.

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Oh. [Bart blinks, thinking back and-- right, that conversation.] Yeah! Sorry the Porter decided to mode me for a while.

Fourteen! But I've been here for almost a year so I guess it grabbed me when I was thirteen still.

Really? I thought you was older. Sixteen, maybe.

Nope- some of my team is though or I mean they were they might be older now. [.... Man, he should. Be paying attention to stuff like that.]

Back home I think the thirteen year olds were the youngest but for a while one of us was ten sometimes.

You saying they weren't ten other times?

Yup! It was a power thing I mean it still is I dunno how it works exactly.

I think it might be weird god magic.

There's all kinds of weird magic here.

There's weird magic everywhere but yeah lots of weird magic here.

[He pauses for a second, mentally rewinding because wait- what was the initial topic again?]

But I mean when I first got here I had a job at an arcade and I lived in the assigned housing so it isn't all bad. You can get free malts and stuff for being an imPort too.

[Bart. You can't survive off of nothing but malts.]

Yeah, I get free stuff sometimes, too. It's cool; I like it.

Way cool I mean I used to be able to get a whole meal running around the imPort cities. Now not so much but it was pretty crash.

[He still gets free meals. Though usually by way of using superspeed and dropping off the money for said meals a few days later.]

Why're you worried about the kids though?

I ain't worried.

I just had some questions.

Normally questions come from being worried I mean most of the time.

[There's a quick pause, here. Before: ]

I guess there are a lot of kids here though.

Yeah, a fuckton. It's a regular elementary school, right.

... Uh, middle school for you, I guess. Or high school. You in ninth grade yet?

High school I guess I mean back home I was I haven't gone to school here yet.

What about you though? You don't look old or anything.

I'm twenty-four. I ain't that old but I'm older than you.

[The kid's making a face at that, sorry Tiffany]

Ugh weird you're almost as old as my grandpa.

[bART THAT DOESN'T COUNT AND YOU KNOW IT]

Fuck off, I ain't as old as anybody's grandpa.

Well gramps is like 25 or something probably but it's fine he's not from my universe it's just kinda weird because he tooootally acts like a grandpa.

... How old was he when he had kids? How old was his kid when they had kids?

I dunno I guess older maybe thirties? I mean dad was in his thirties when I was born so probably thirties.

[Time travel, basically.]

You know that don't make sense with the other stuff you said, right?

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