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[wolflord_andain]

The front door opens, and a man, lacking in stature but frighteningly elegant for all that, steps in, heavy cloak covered over in thick flakes of snow.

He shakes the melting drops from his hair, then unfastens his cloak and lays it over the back of a chair.

Then, of course, he takes his own seat, waving over a waitrat and requesting a meal.

Steak. Rare, of course. Raw would be better, but people do tend to stare--and this is hardly the right shape for it.

And the hunt, after all, is so much better than the feasting afterward.

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[wolflord_andain]

Galadan smiles faintly.

"No? Then tell me, if you will, the kind of cities your people build."

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Big ones." Well, it's true.

"Also ones that aren't even on the planet. Sort of like moons that are man-made."

[wolflord_andain]

"And these moons--might they move them at their own whim? Or are they fixed in place, much like the stars?"

Galadan has reasons for asking, of course.

He always has reasons.

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Technically, everything is moving, but we'll skip the physics lesson for now. Relative to the Earth, they stay in the same place. If they didn't move with the Earth, people couldn't live there."

[wolflord_andain]

Galadan is watching Duo intently, now--and he is listening intently, as well.

He has ever had a hunger for knowledge, has Galadan of the andain.

"And why, I wonder, might that be?"

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Well, we couldn't get there so easily, for one thing. Launch calculations would be very different every time, and there's the sun to deal with. Also, the Earth's mass keeps the gravity at the Lagrange points stable enough for the colonies. They'd just go spinning off into space, otherwise."

Duo nods as he explains, miming flicking a colony off into the endless reaches of space.

[wolflord_andain]

Galadan's eyebrows go up.

"Do they? And people are willing to live there, regardless? You must have great faith in your calculations, to so trust in such a fragile balance."

[maxwellsdemon02]

"It's routine, now. People don't think about it as much when it's been normal for a hundred years, yanno? Earth is just as much of a balance. Don't take care of the resources we have, and we're as fucked as if the colonies blew."

[wolflord_andain]

"That long? Impressive."

Galadan is still watching Duo, winter-grey eyes piercing.

"And have your people learned that lesson, yet? Or is it only a few, as it seems to be in so many other places?"

[maxwellsdemon02]

"More than there used to be, I think. Colonizing planets and world spanning wars tend to smarten people up, some. 'Course, if they all were geniuses, I wouldn't have a job."