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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anonystu" data-source="post: 795758" data-attributes="member: 10897">Your editor's voice breathes out a deep sigh, one expressing not only his immense distaste for all of you, but for every living and dead being on the planet for conspiring to associate you with him."If you want kind and friendly, there's a nursery right down the street, Ms. Snippety Girl. I gave you almost four hours off, you should be thankful for that miracle, because this god isn't handing out any more to you lazy reporters."He pauses, clears his throat. "Good, all done waking up? Nobody wanted to give this to your group, but Helena is planetside tracking down a story, and we need this done now. Your story interviewing Alyssa Carmichael about the upcoming election and what it's like to be a wife of someone so important to the Opposition Party and blah blah blah. It's done. Off. Killed.""I meant that in the literal sense. We have it pretty securely that Arthur Carmichael is dead. Not just, pay a cleric dead, but complete: body burned away, ashes nowhere to found. Obviously a professional. Which means we shouldn't be sending you, but we need this story now. All of it. Who did it, why, where, and what the party is going to do. Ten hours from now. No excuses, unless you want to go back to the sports page, although I'm certain that Bambi wouldn't mind 'covering' the team again.""There are some city guard at Alyssa's house right now. Whether they're detaining her, or questioning her, or just protecting her, we don't know. Whatever it is, find out what she knows and figure this thing out. Now. Alright, now back to you my amusing dear, let see you twist th..."The ring grows silent. The simple magic making it seem like it's dark outside slowly fades away, leaving the bright sunlight from the floating city that's always in the sun coming in through the second-story window.</blockquote>

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