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[onlythans]

well now, isn't THIS a dubious surprise
"THE CITY THANKS YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE"
i wonder what manner of service they think i've performed, precisely?

well
if this is some sort of token of appreciation for my contribution to our recent "smash or pass" activities
then i suppose all i have to say is: YOU'RE WELCOME
glad you liked it, so on and so forth

all the same, knowing the sort of tricks this place gets up to, i rather think i'd better see about employing the services of a decent mechanic before i trust the reliability of this...gift of theirs

just to be certain it's not about to mysteriously glue me to the driver's seat
or explode
or compel me to confess my earliest childhood memory or some bollocks like that

i don't suppose there's anyone about who'd be willing to perform a look-over on one of these?

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[nomoresharks]

Ah, so they were a friend of yours. [a laugh] Somehow, I'm not surprised.

But yes, I'm aware of that as well, though only Emet-Selch remembers the conversation. Would I be correct in assuming that cause is--for a blessing--no longer applicable for you and yours?

[onlythans]

[He's quiet, then. There are things he wants to say to that, some that might help and some that might not, and all of them true, and some of them heartbreaking. And he tries to imagine, just for a moment, what it would have been like to be a cocky lad of seventeen summers waiting for a street parade in Ul'dah to begin, only to have a stranger who claimed to know his future approach and tell him in ten years' time his soul would give way to a monster's, and his hands would open the door to the murder of so many of his friends.

Would he have wanted to know? Would it have been any better if he had?

A thousand thousand lifetimes those who slept on the moon kept vigil, shielding the star from the Final Days, and when they escaped their chains the beneficiaries of their grief never even knew them, much less lifted a voice to say thank you.]

It was a close thing. We couldn't have done it without help.

[nomoresharks]

And yet still it was something you did. I'll not ask you to crow your accomplishments to all who may hear, but I'll not let you downplay them either. 'Tis worth all the praise I can think of and more.