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[areyoulovers]

It's been very tense here lately. What with one thing and another... I've been helping Papa down in engineering, but it's really a lost cause. I've been helping salvage a few parts, but it's lucky we have a new design half-built. He's sent me off to have a break now, so I was going to go and get something from the mess hall, but I can hear arguing down there... I think it's Mr. Erde and Mr. Lockon. So I went to go do some studying instead.

He's been going off on people a lot lately. It's not unreasonable-- what with Mr. Doctor and everything, everyone is stretched a little bit thin, but I wish I could do something to help...

Mr. Seiei's been looking a little sad as well. It's a little hard to tell with him, but I think Papa might have told him off. He hasn't been down in engineering as much as I expected.

I just hope everyone feels better by Christmas. I worked so hard to decorate, but in this state, the mistletoe is going to go completely unnoticed by everyone... I'll just have to make sure I get everyone excellent presents this year!

It seems as though the argument stopped suddenly, so maybe I'll go and see how Mr. Erde feels.

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[solidork.livejournal.com]

Is something the matter, Mileina?

[areyoulovers]

It's all right, Mr. Larsa. Tensions are just a little high right now, for a variety of reasons.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

So I am noticing. I hope it does not bear a heavy toll on you.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

Guess it's not the best Christmas up there right now, huh.

[areyoulovers]

Last year's was better, but the year before was worse, so I suppose it's not as bad as it could be. Everyone is just a little tense right now.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

The year before was -- oh, yeah... It sure seems that way.

... Hey, Mileina, mind if I ask you something?

[areyoulovers]

Of course not! What is it, Mr. Dylandy?

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

I know better than to ask anyone like Neil and Tieria right now, but after everything that's happened I can't help being curious, so I was wondering if you had any idea. Just who is this Doctor to everyone up there? All I know about him is that Neil travelled with him for a bit.

[areyoulovers]

Well, he's a very dear friend to everyone up here. I wasn't with them at the time, but he helped Mr. Erde and everyone out of a bad situation, so I think everyone feels a little indebted to him.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

That so, huh.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[areyoulovers]

Yes, the Christmas before last. I'm sure Mr. Lockon has told you.

Thank you, Mr. Dylandy. It's really very strange, to think he won't be coming back...

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, Mr. Lockon hasn't. Else I probably would have thanked the Doctor myself already for whatever it was that he did. If it was the Christmas before last, though, I can probably hazard a guess...

It always is when something like this happens.

[areyoulovers]

He really hasn't told you? And no one else has, either?

Most things, people can get used to. But I don't think that people dying is one of them.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know. I'm a little out of the loop here.

I'm sorry to say it, but it's not. Are you holding up okay?

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[areyoulovers]

I wasn't with everyone on the Ptolemy then, so I didn't personally experience what happened, but I have access to the files and Papa told me a lot of it when I started training to be on the bridge crew... but when everyone was saying that Celestial Being was defeated, we really were. And it was Mr. Doctor who helped get the pilots and their units into save havens on other worlds.

I'm all right... mostly, it's everyone else that I'm worrying about.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

He did? No wonder everyone's reacting so badly after that...

Yeah, I can see why.

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[mybffharo.livejournal.com]

Those were some of the worst days of my life. I'll never forget what happened. We really did have a lot to thank the Doctor for.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know. I mean, I knew what I saw on the news, but not about the Doctor helping you all out. I always did wonder how you all managed to come out of it okay after what the UN was telling us all on Earth...

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[mybffharo.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't have been known. The Doctor acted soon after we lost the Ptolemaios and some of our crew. He gathered up a rescue crew from the community members, and I assisted in directing him to the damaged Gundams from the shuttle I was on with Ian and Miss Sumeragi. Then he came and got me. Everyone was scattered to different worlds, except Ian and Sumeragi. They stayed behind.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

You know, two years ago, that would have sounded completely unbelievable to me. But right now, I'm just sorry you guys lost someone who stepped in to help you like that.

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[mybffharo.livejournal.com]

We're going to miss him very much, but he won't be forgotten.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

... yeah. That's how it should be.

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[mybffharo.livejournal.com]

I think I'll go lay out a flower for him too.

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[areyoulovers]

And... he saved Mr. Lockon especially. I'm not sure... I mean, everyone in Celestial Being knows, and you have the necessary clearance, but if Mr. Lockon hasn't told you himself...

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

To be honest, he hasn't told me anything. I saw Tieria mention something suspicious last year, but...

Don't worry about telling me if you're worried about it. I want to know, but I'll ask my brother to tell me about it himself.

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[areyoulovers]

I suppose I could see why Mr. Erde wouldn't want to tell you... about his eye, at least.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

His eye? What happened to his eye?

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[areyoulovers]

He didn't tell you even that? He lost his eye, Mr. Dylandy! A little before he-- A little before the last time they fought.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

No, he didn't tell me - his eye's been fine whenever I've seen him.

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[areyoulovers]

Yes, after everything happened with the Doctor, there was time to have it healed. I hope Mr. Erde doesn't yell at me...

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

This whole thing just gets better and better.

Oh, and you can send Tieria to yell at me instead if you like, seeing as I'm the one who asked and all. That'd probably be easier for all three of us.

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[areyoulovers]

It's not an issue of the information being classified... Papa told me that Mr. Erde felt that it was his fault, and I don't think that he likes to be reminded of it.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

Even if that's the case, my point is he'd probably feel better yelling at me for asking about it in the first place than at you for telling me it.

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[areyoulovers]

You're probably right, but I wish he wouldn't yell at you, either... if something bad happened to Papa or Mama and no one told me about it, I would be very upset!

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't upset. But that's for me to take up with Neil.

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[areyoulovers]

Good luck, Mr. Dylandy. I hope he tells you properly.

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[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Mileina.

[nick-4-maya.livejournal.com]

Are you alright, Mileina?

[areyoulovers]

Oh, yes, I'm completely fine! Everyone's just very stressed right now, so I wish I could do something to help...

[nick-4-maya.livejournal.com]

I heard about Mr. Doctor... I didn't know him very well, but he was Mr. Nick and Mr. Edgeworth's friend. I still can't believe it.

[areyoulovers]

It was horrible to watch, wasn't it?

[nick-4-maya.livejournal.com]

It was. I wish there was something that we could have done.