be not afraid. it issss only a housssse. i have heard it ssssaid . . . that in ssssome partssss of the universssse, they a very common.

then you are not lisssstening, ki-ki. we are all patchworkssss of our ssssupersssstitssssionssss. i, mysssself, included. i have told you of my desssstiny.

hoh-kus-poh-kus. i think i have heard of thissss urf figure.

pa-ra-noyd? what issss thissss?

i ssssensssse a great dissssturbansssssce here.

yessss. i know the feeling well, ki-ki. and perhapssss, assss a child, you knew it too.

i will make it . . . quick.

what issss the expressssion? do not count your sssshampoossss before they ssssparkle. we sssshall ssssee.

you do not need to ssssell it to me.

||: the well of ice warrior gifs is running dry FAST

i wonder what this . . . masssschine doessss.

the godssss sssshow usss the way, thia-of-clan-dek; ssssometimessss, their wayssss are myssssteriessss to ussss, but they will alwaysss sssshow ussss the way that issss right for ussss. even if it sssseemssss our time isss wassssted, that issss not sssso. we have gained . . . ssssomething.

no.

sssscattered, or dead. or worsssse; they have given up their wayssss and followed . . . other idolssss. *falsssse* idols. the ssssword of tuburr, and hissss might, will sssshow them the true way.

it will. it hassss. but under another'ssss name. the people of urf have colonissssed my home.

A party? I do not undersssstand.

my . . . armour.

fasssscinating. i ssssee that you, too, wear the sssskinssss of your foessss.

it issss a mosssst sssserioussss offenssssce in my culture. if i were to remove my armor in front of another issssce warrior, it would be under pain of death, and i sssshould do the ssssame to any martssssian that i ssssaw naked.

i would ssssurvive, i think. but i would not take off my armour, if that issss what you are assssking.

what?

for girlssss?

an entire day for ssssitting? it sssseemssss unussssual.

what issss . . . ssssaturday?

yessss, a 'day off' would be . . . nissssce.

"A mosssst primitive piessssce of technology. I wonder what it issss doing here," Avaar says, looking down at the husk.

i am alwayssss weary of vanity.

hmmm . . .

it issss . . . unlikely. the lasssst water on marssss wassss many, many thoussssandssss of yearssss before my birth. however, it issss ssssaid that our planet was onsssse frozen in the isssse, full of glassssierssss rather than . . . mud.

you have a way with wordssss, thia, that would make a martssssian sssstoryteller purple with envy.

only the godssss could ssssay.