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[impure_tale]

Zev Bellringer will not be returning to the Barge. I'm [he hesitates] I'm sorry.

Before I rest: Have we lost any others?

[Private to Rassilon]

Do you need anything?

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[impure_tale]

There's talk on the Network of at least one other, but it's uncertain whether he was left behind or if he chose to leave as well.

[It's difficult to be optimistic after all of...that, especially.]

I think we've come out better, overall, but only time will tell if others wish to run away. Rex has been here for years, and someone is waiting for him.

[spam]

[megamind]

I know.

I don't-- begrudge Rex. He got his deal. He should go be happy. We should all be so lucky, inmates and wardens, to have someone waiting for us.

[ Megamind's not sure if he does. Roxanne is-- a mystery. If he'll even be the same person she loved when he returns. The barge does that. ]

[spam]

[impure_tale]

I can make few promises in that regard, but you've ever need of a friend, I will always be here.

[spam]

[megamind]

[ Will you really? He doesn't say it, but it's in his mind. ]

Thank you. We've been through-- a lot, haven't we? The barge-- lovers, friends, a bit of madness.

[spam]

[impure_tale]

Something you'll have to grow accustomed to. The ones who stay as long as I do have a lot of that to look forward to.

[spam]

[megamind]

I honestly don't know how you manage, sometimes. I mean, it's like your superpower. 'Withstanding all the barge crap ever'.

[spam]

[impure_tale]

Someday, Megamind, you are going to be much older. I guarantee it. You are even going to die, and you may find yourself with a choice to be in a place such as this, or elsewhere. And after a lifetime of wins, losses, pleasures and pains, you'll find that surmounting new surprises is something akin to muscle memory.

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[megamind]

[ That earns a smile; a sad one, but a smile all the same. ]

I hope so. It means I'll have lived my life fairly well, I think.