[Public | Video]

[Rhade has the nice new chess set that Arthas gave him set up in a common room. He's thinking about something, turning one of the handcrafted pieces in his hand as he examines it.]

I was an inmate here once. I had a warden, but as well meaning as he was our personalities [there's a flash of teeth as he says the word] weren't exactly comparable. I still felt a little abandoned when we were unpaired. In fact, much of my path to graduation felt incredibly isolated.

Ultimately what graduated me was not the hand of a specifically assigned warden, or even myself. It was realizing that while I might have felt isolated there were a few people, warden and inmate alike, that had given me their loyalty and I gave them mine. It wasn't the painful events or even the irritating ones that made me question my former actions. It was seeing and hearing how other passengers had lived their lives, knowing their experiences, and I could see myself in them and I could think for just a moment that a decision I had made in the past might not have been as rational as I believed it to be at the time. And I believe this would have been the case, warden or no.

[Then he pulls a little bit of a face, putting down the piece.]

But I suppose that's just my own experience and we're all individuals. That's simply mine. [Though sometimes he has to shake the thought of "what if?" now that he knows he wouldn't make the same mistakes again. He would like to try to save the Commonwealth again, but that would mean killing Dylan.] I've never felt particularly grateful to the ship or the Admiral for it, and I don't expect anyone here to, but I won't rob credit from the passengers that did help me. I'm also sure other graduates have their own scenarios. [And then he decides he's had enough of that.]

Speaking of being grateful towards the ship, most of the kitchen crew on several shifts has been relocated or left. We need more. If we don't have a suitable crew, I wouldn't put it past the Admiral to return the faceless servants. I wouldn't especially want the return of the faceless servants, considering their somewhat... dubious natures. [Just a nice little note to tack onto the end there.]

[Private to Arthas | Video]

Would you like to help me break this in? [This is a suspiciously pointed gift. In Nietzschean speak, it would mean you wanted to play a game.]

[Private to Arya | Video]

I have a couple of books for you. I think they will be of interest.

[Spam for Dylan]

[With his speech fresh in his mind, he goes to Dylan's room. There's remorse there for what he did, but also a little curiosity- what if he had become the One? In a way, given his recent experiences with Ben, he's now wondering if he could have managed it.

He considers it a dangerous thought and of course he's going to hedge around it, but he needs to address it.]