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[Sveta's back, friends! She's on the deck, dressed as if going to a ceremony. A long white dress whispers around her ankles and her hair falls loose around her face. She looks as if she had been crying once, but has since brushed it off, revealing only a few faint splotches of red around her eyes. She sets the camera down and takes a deep breath.]

Destiny. We're all supposed to have one, yes? We're all supposed to follow it. But I never knew you could change it.

[She holds up her hands to show them. They're covered in a faint white dust which she brushes off quickly, creating a small cloud.]

Chalkdust. [She gives the camera a very serious look.] It might as well be bloodstains. [She reaches into a small purse and pulls out a cigarette, lighting it quickly. Yeah. Sveta smokes. Enjoy that.]

Fuck them. I'm not going back.

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I can erase Destiny. They asked me to erase the Destiny of a young boy.

[Private to Howie]

I'm back. [A soft laugh.] Obviously. He didn't stop me.

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Give me tonight. Then tomorrow, get me drunk. Or something.

[[OOC: So. Apologies for the Sveta spam again. BUT...Sveta's had a canon update, yay! The details of that will come later! For now, she's just a little freaked out. Also, feel free to spam if you want. She'll be up on deck for a while.]

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...Good.

[pause] Are you alright? I'll come up there.

Since when did you... nevermind.

[very, very tersely.]

Did you do it?

Hm.

No. I'll come down there. I've been up here too long.

No. I left before I had to.

Alright. I'll... put the kettle on and see you shortly.

and... find an ashtray...

Will you, then, when you return?

Thank you.

Don't worry about it.

I'm not returning.

Och, no, I've got one. I just don't know where it is.

[And he was in his room, waiting, doing a lot of fussing over making tea and digging through drawers for a barely used ashtray that he only used when his dad came. He eventually found it, and he was a little disappointed - a lot of this was much easier to worry about than the things she'd said, how upset she'd looked, how... almost different she'd seemed, and the fact she'd returned when he was a little unawares.]

...This place doesn't always seem to give you the choice.

Will you?

[After a while, she knocked on his door, still in the white dress. She looked a bit better, as she had time to realize that Maxim was not coming after her and that she was back on the barge...safe.]

[He answered the door, and before standing back to let her in, pulled her into a hug instantly. He needed to make sure she was really back first, but then he stood back and held the door open for her.]

Thank God you're back. [He'd worried a lot, and that... he couldn't help saying it. He had a lot of questions to ask her, but he didn't want to throw them all in her face right now.] Are you alright?

I've been here for over a year and a half. I have the choice now, dammit.

...A year and a half is not long in a lifetime of a thousand years.

I'm holding you to that, about tomorrow.

[So worried. But pretty sure that asking about it will not be the right thing.]

[She returned the embrace and trembled slightly as she held him. As he pulled away, she stepped inside, looking around in relief. Nothing had changed. It was all the same.]

I'm fine. It's just...it's been a long couple of days.

It doesn't matter. That's not my home anymore.

[He frowned a little to himself.] Sit down, I'll get you some tea. You could probably do with it.

[For a second, he paused on his question, and went about making a cup of tea for her,] What happened, Sveta?

So you're going to stay here for eternity?

Please do. Don't let me tell you no.

Right, I won't. I'll come collect you after dinner.

[She sat down, pulling her feet up, showing her insecurity.]

It started out fine. A vacation at Tiger Cub's home. But there was something else behind it. The boss wanted me to...change the fate of a boy.

Only I could do it. It was the reason they had been rushing me through training. Only me, Neil.

I saw Maxim on the rooftop and left. [She was well aware that she was probably not making sense, but she wanted to at least get the gist of it across.]

Inmates can go somewhere else when they graduate. Why can't I go somewhere else when I graduate an inmate?

What... were you changing his fate from, and to? [He offered her the cup of tea, then sat down next to her,]

Why was it so important to them that you did it?

[He was trying to prod gently at the right places in the story, as he couldn't exactly understand right now, but wanted to.]

Definitely.

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