AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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[retellers]

You could have dropped the rest of the sentence.

[cuedoves]

You could've said hello.

[ then he sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, reeling it in a bit ]

Look, I didn't come here to argue with you. I want to talk.

[retellers]

Right.

[ they look at their nails, then at him. ]

Tiger.

[cuedoves]

[ wow it's akechi ]

.. Zuko.

But you. Probably already knew that.

[retellers]

Yup.

But hey, there's only so much I can learn from an app profile, so that's a start.

[cuedoves]

Those profiles barely give you any real information, anyway. It's mainly stupid jokes and insults.

[ huffs ]

Are you missing your memories, too?

[retellers]

Yup. All six of us are, apparently the benefits for this job suck.

[cuedoves]

.... Yeah. That's rough.

[ buddy. ]

If we gather all the Nova, are you going to get them back?

[retellers]

We should, I think. I mean, there's always the chance that it might go horribly wrong, but we should.

[ they are not enough of an optimist to say definitely ]

[cuedoves]

[ zuko's not an optimist at all so they're in good company!!! ]

How do you think it might go wrong?

[retellers]

Whatever it is that's taking the nova. Since we don't know what it is yet, it's hard to try to predict what might happen with it.

[cuedoves]

Guess the best thing we can do now is try to be prepared and alert.

Do you have any information about it?

[retellers]

No, since the Realm doesn't know what's going on yet. The fact that we're all here means that it's desperate and needed outside help.

But, in theory, we should be able to figure out if it's some type of being, or a natural event, or whatever, now that we're here.

[cuedoves]

Did anything happen between you getting here and us getting here...? Aside from your..... gift bags and picking jobs and that stuff.

[ since they arrived a few days before the gang ]

[retellers]

It was mostly us getting the crash course on everything and preparing for you guys. There really was a limited amount of what we could get done without you.

[cuedoves]

And how much did you know about us before we arrived?

[retellers]

Just what's on your profiles. The Realm apparently didn't think what you guys did before you arrived here was important for us to know, thankfully.

[ tiger... does not care about your tragic backstories. ]

[cuedoves]

Probably for the best.

[ considering..... ]

How badly do you want to win this 'competition'?

[retellers]

I'd like to win in the sense that I think I deserve a prize for dealing with how ridiculous this all is?

[ did they agree to do this for free. they want to know. ]

[cuedoves]

[ he laughs a little but ]

Well, the same could be said for all of us.

[retellers]

Oh, you guys definitely have a really shitty end of the deal. I don't envy you.

I'm just not really a fan of repeating myself, it seems. This job requires a lot of it.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, me neither.

[ that's why he's not asking what lux i mean nova is. ]

Can I ask you something? What makes you so sure all this is real? I still don't really get how the Realm is communicating with you.

[retellers]

I mean, did you have to learn how to breathe? Or think? Or did you just suddenly start doing it automatically without being aware that you are?

It's like that. We just suddenly knew what the Realm wanted us to do. It's not verbally talking to us, but it's communicating with us.

[cuedoves]

That must be weird.

[ being connected to a realm... like that. ]

And it's one-way, right?

[retellers]

Yeah. Well, sort of.

[ a wave of their hand. ]

I'm pretty sure it understands what our responses to it are. But it doesn't let us know whether it acknowledged them or not, since it's... whatever the fuck it is. Like you're having a conversation with someone, but the other person isn't responding to anything you're saying and instead just talks over you. Get it?