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[The handwriting is disguised, and the picture obscured. The message is as anonymous as possible.]

If there is anyone returned from a kidnapping or being threatened who does not feel safe in his or her home, speak to anyone at the Welcome Center and they will direct you to a safe place to stay until things are better.

If you wish to volunteer to house someone, you will need a reference from a trusted member of the community.

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[A few minutes later, he uncovers the camera and starts a new message, spoken this time.]

Alexis Rodgers has been sent home. At least I assume as much--no one has seen her and her flat is empty. It's good. She was very homesick, and...

[A pause. There's nothing really to say after that. He doesn't sound greatly distressed, but there's definitely a certain melancholy.

He'll be at the library this afternoon, and Good Spirits tonight. Missing Dawn, mostly. He'll occasionally walk through the item shop, killing time looking for little gifts to pick up for her. At some point, he'll go see Ingrid in the clinic. In the evening, he'll pay a visit to Jack Sparrow's house on the beach. He's there to see Horatio, of course.]

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I guess it depends on how you look at it, yeah? [It's all one big video game for Kurt. Though... not as much as it used to be.]

Perhaps. [Though Archie can't imagine another way to look at it.] Though you know what it's like now, don't you? Real battle. Is the Battle Dome anything like it?

... not really. In the Dome, you know you can't die. In fact, you don't even get hurt if you don't want it to.

[It may not prepare you for life and death... but it helped, he won't deny that. Just like the Danger Room.]

[A thoughtful pause.] Possible, then.

It's good training, at least. I would have done a lot worse in the draft if I hadn't been playing with swords in there so much.

I've a sword-master here, happily enough. If you'd like to practice together, it might have an advantage over...

[Um. What do you call what's in the Battle Dome?]

[Someone to practice against, huh? Well he does have Mikage, but...]

Pirates... musketeers, samurai, vikings, robots, and other stuff. [He likes to keep it just a tad bit exciting.]

Which are not real.

Real enough. It's how the Professor trained us... kind of.

[The difficulty was higher, teamwork was a major focus, and they weren't quite as extravagant... but close enough!]

[Have a silence, then a noncommittal noise that screams "I am not convinced."]

Not convinced, yeah? No worries, man. I've got more than just using a sword at my advantage.

[And when it comes right down to it... the battle dome is the only thing that can adequately challenge his mutant abilities.]

Yes, especially if you should come across any female soldiers. They like the blue fur, I hear.

[Totally friendly, nothing malicious about the poke.]

[If only Archie had any idea how sensitive a subject that was... but to Kurt's credit, he's able to let it go, rolling along with it.]

It's true, man. Chicks totally dig the fuzzy dude.

[A friendly chuckle. He could make a dirty joke, something about having more to hold on to, but he's not among friends he knows well. Or other sailors.]

Do you have a sweetheart back home?

Well... there is Amanda. She's my girlfriend from back home. But... it's been awhile since I saw her.

[Ten months. And it's hard to know how to feel about that. She's really into him... but her parents want her to have nothing to do with him.]

...Something to hold on to, I suppose.

What about you, man?

Not at home, no. In Luceti, yes.

[She's mallynapped and he's fretting.]

Really? You're not worried about one of you just... poofing?

[There's a lot of reasons Kurt hasn't asked out a girl in Luceti. There's Amanda, there's the lack of permanence, and then there's the fact he's a hideous freak.]

Of course we're worried. But at the moment, we're both here.

[It makes sense to him, okay?]

Well... if you say so, man.

[He's not what you'd call convinced, but that's Archie's choice, not his.]

[He's not going to go too far into any kind of elaboration, especially since it would require dropping the 'I'm dead and this is all I have' bomb before he even knows the kid.]

I'd rather not miss the chance, is all.

Fair enough.

[Miss the chance, huh...]

[What? They're both only here for a limited time, death or no death.] Well then, Kurt, what do you do here besides fight false creatures in the Battle Dome?

Well... there was school. I'm part of the SOS Brigade. You've heard of it before, yeah?

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