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EMC conversation with Cpt of the ship for the prison escort, that got stuck in the storm on the island.&#160;

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"Matthew!" An angry voice shouted from down an aisle of tables. EMC turned towards the voice.

It was a large man, in a long, blue sailor's coat that looked a bit torn, recently. "You eternal son of a biscuit eater! You owe me a new ship for that mission you sent me on! Not only did that scum board it, I had to take my ship to that island, it left without me in the storm, and then was destroyed! Never again!" The shipless captain was furious.

"I am sorry; how did you get here?" Matthew replied with more calm than was hoped for.

"We rebuilt the gate tower, which took time;" the captain was much calmer in his voice but the anger in his eyes still burned.&#160;

"Then I gated to th<i>at</i> hallway....the guards were not happy to see me, and then walking past a thousand men who have been waiting decades for a fight."

"And those you were escorting?"

"Presumed dead; my whole crew, all dead." The anger started becoming noticeable again, but with a touch of devastating loss hidden.

"They are not; not all of them. They were picked up and brought into Inneadello, and have been heading this way. I am sorry to say that &#160;your---" Matthew broke off as he searched the Cpt's mind, and changed what he was going to say, "--cargo was unrecoverable."

"You should be, that was a good ship, and expensive crate." The captain had lost more than cargo, but he didn't remember that he lost what he had lost, or that he'd ever had it. This bothered Matthew.

"Sit, eat, the food is good. The laws of existence are what they are, may the chaos of your existence be beneficial." The Eternal knew the past could not be changed, but the future could be better.

The captain glared at Matthew for a moment, but sat down to eat while vaguely gesturing three fingers towards him to return the parting well-wishes.

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random people getting to know each other. Where they are from, what they do, how they feel about the airships, history, a slight hint of conspiracies,&#160;

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