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[Cassel's in his room, rearranging his drawer of scraps in some order discernible only to him. Ilia is perched on a high shelf, his eyes narrowed and tail twitching, disturbed by the commotion and looking ready to jump down onto Cassel's shoulders at any moment. As he rummages, Cassel addresses the camera; the moment he turns towards it, a bruise slides into view on his left temple, light and mottled black. He seems not to notice it.]

A few things. First of all, if anybody who's not all Admiral-ed up has a problem with the power outages, I think - I think I can make flashlights and lamps that don't need to be powered. [He's speaking specifically to Morgana here, but he doesn't know everybody's hangups, either, so he's leaving it open to the Barge as a whole.]

Second of all, has anybody actually gotten anywhere with the ship? Steering it or anything? Because this seems like it's getting kind of. Critical. [As Dean so astutely pointed out.]

Last thing - I know nobody cares right now, but we still need staff for the gym. At least one more person. If you feel like going slightly less stir-crazy while we're marooned in the middle of nowhere, apply now.

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He's your boyfriend, right? You guys are dating?

Yeah. We have been for, like, a year and a half now.

Wow. That's gotta be some kind of Barge record.

I think it's because we got here at the same time. I couldn't imagine being here without him.

. . . He keeps talking about leaving, though.

[Well, that pings her Merlin feelings again. Her Simon feelings, too.]

I'm sorry. I'm-- do you think he's going to?

Probably eventually. Maybe at the same time as me, maybe not.

[He's seriously bummed about it, though.]

Does he wanna do what you do, and never leave the Barge forever?

That's what I thought for a while, but now I don't know. Probably not.

Maybe he'll change his mind. I did. Last month I thought I wanted to leave.

Maybe. I hope so. It'd suck here without him.

. . . I mean, it wouldn't suck. But it'd be too different.

I know what you mean. It does suck. It don't mean the Barge has got nothing going for it anymore, but it's got less than before.

Yeah. Yeah, you get it.

I just hope it doesn't happen. I've lost enough people already.

... You wanna tell me more good stuff about him? Or about anyone else?

I wasn't trying to make you sad or nothing; I'm sorry.

It's okay. I'm not really sad. Just thinking.

Hey, he's a superhero, did you know that? Isn't that the dumbest thing you ever heard?

He is? He don't seem like it. What're his powers?

He doesn't have any. Except for robot legs. He's like, um, Daredevil, I guess.

Is that someone here?

He's a different superhero. From comics. [That he was instructed to read by Chris on pain of death.] I guess he could exist somewhere?

If they was non-fiction comics, maybe.

I mean, there are superheroes from comics here sometimes. Rogue was here. Jean Grey is here.

[god he sounds like chris jfc.]

I know who Jean Grey is. There are comic books about her?

Yeah. What, you seriously didn't know that?

No. So she's, like, famous? We got a celebrity here on the Barge?

Pretty much. Cool, right?

Yeah.

[Though the "fictional in some places" aspect is still escaping her; she just assumes these are biography-style comic books.]

You think anyone's gonna write comics about Chris?

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