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❝This is Ned. ...The Pie maker.❞

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voice;

[cargojet]

And some other guy dies. Just like that.

[ It's heavyhearted. Nathan is conflicted. On one side he wants to berate him, because this - exactly this - is why people with powers need to be better policed in his world--

--and in another, he experienced Ned's point of view, his long lost love, his heartache. And he knows that if he'd felt the way Ned did - if he even could any more - felt that overwhelming intolerable need to not let go of a dream, then he'd probably do the same thing.

It was fortunate that he'd never felt like that, and probably never would. ]

voice;

[onetouch]

I'm afraid so. But I'm not sorry that Chuck got to live while Mr. Schatz had to... die. He wasn't a very good man, and he stole things from dead people!

[ ned is very good at justifying his actions. clearly. ]

voice;

[cargojet]

So it's okay because he wasn't a very nice man? Oh, that's comforting.

voice;

[onetouch]

It's not okay... [ he just doesn't mind the repercussions. ] So much as not not okay.

voice;

[cargojet]

If I didn't know how you feel about it, I'd be in the dark.

You know there are other people here, right? People with powers like yours?

voice;

[onetouch]

Yes, I know... that. [ it doesn't make it less distressing. ] Like you.

Re: voice;

[cargojet]

Like me, yes. And my brother--I'm guessing you saw him? Peter's a sponge. He can absorb what other people can do, just by being near them.

[ See he's getting to a point. ]

voice;

[onetouch]

So whatever I can do... [ peter can too. he gulped. ]

voice;

[cargojet]

He might be, yes. He might not know it yet, or be able to control it, but if it's him and a dead body, some way down the road...

voice;

[onetouch]

Does your brother have a habit of touching... dead things?

voice;

[cargojet]

Well, he's a nurse.

A hospice nurse.

So yeah, actually, that's sorta his whole thing.

voice;

[onetouch]

...Oh. [ the gulp can definitely be heard. ]

voice;

[cargojet]

Well. The least you can do is maybe let him know what you can do, that way nobody gets any nasty surprises.

voice;

[onetouch]

I'll talk to him, Nathan.

[ begrudgingly: ] Thank you.

voice;

[cargojet]

Don't mention it.