These Are The Beings In Your Neighborhood.

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The Chancellor was busy travelling throughout the ship, mapping out the 'Dead Zones' in his mind. A ship-wide revolution needs good, cautious use of dead zones.  He traveled in silence.  So much silence.

He peered through a space he was too large to enter.

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The Chancellor was too large, but a space would have to be very small indeed to keep Duuv from investigating it. He washed along the wall, every inch of him buzzing and muttering as he practiced making sounds. He looked like a bad special effect and sounded like a distant crowd.

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The Chancellor looked for a while. "Is anyone present behind this phenomenon?" the rich English voice said aloud, though his lips did not move.

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The chattering stopped and Duuv flooded backwards, interested. A thin little whisper came from his surface:

"Hi! Hihihihihi! Hi!"

[ternaui.livejournal.com]

As the pool of what resembles human blood comes towards the Chancellor, he is mildly bemused, but answers with a "Hello." Pause. "W-- I did not mean to interrupt anything of consequence." The 'I', so easy so far since his loss of the others, almost disappeared in his surprise. "I am called the Chancellor."

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So many new words! Duuv understood about eight of them. He bunched up, forming a slug-like shape with a knob on one end, then suddenly furred over with hundreds of fine tendrils.

"Hi! Hihihihihi! Am Duuv! Hi!"

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As the Chancellor has no physical sex, he does not possess any form of estrogen, but his parental instincts are nevertheless spiking with this little creature. "Hello, Duuv."

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"Hi! Hi! Hello!"

Communication! He froths over in sheer bliss. Someone was talking to him, hooray!

Wait, manners. Right!

"How are?"

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"Well enough myself, Duuv. But in truth, I am worried about my family."

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"Worry?"

He edges closer, because nothing comforts like physical proximity to something like Duuv.

"Sad?"

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"Normally, Duuv, I can always hear my siblings. I cannot hear them now. And I do not know where my daughters are, either."

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"Oh. Sad. Big sad."

Poor guy. Duuv settled on one of his feet in a bid to comfort him.

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It's been a few hundred years since the Chancellor's been covered in human blood. Well, except for that time when Veronica was twelve, but that was best forgotten.

But he takes it reasonably in stride, albeit looking down -- and down, and down -- bemusedly. "Yes. I hope they are all safe. Do you have family, Duuv?"

[nottheredsea.livejournal.com]

"Momma. Dad."

He was quiet a moment, thinking, then spread out in a stringy puddle.

"Mommy."

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Passing by, because he too was curious to look around and get a better idea of the ship, Snow was finally long out of the pod chambers he had reluctantly stayed in for so long. And the Chancellor wasn't really hard to miss wandering around the ship.

"Hey, you guy!" he called out with a wave.

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The Chancellor turns to snow, the little puddle of Duuv still perched on his shoulder.

"Hello," his deep, rich English voice says, without his lips moving. "Congratulations on finding your lady. No sign of my Veronica yet, but I am told to wait and hope, and have found my device for audible speech."

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Wait, what. Snow blinked in surprise, holding off on the Serah Serah Serah yay talk. For now, anyway.

"Woah, so you can talk?" It made sense. He understood Snow just fine when he spoke to him.

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"'Portable Vocal Chords,' the gentlemen from Imperial Research and Development called it when they first gave it to us. Very useful in dealing with other species. I am called the Chancellor. And this young fellow, apparently, is Duuv."

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Duuv appeared to be a large clot of blood. He extended a tendril towards Snow and waved it on the air, and spoke in a thin, whispery little voice.

"Hi! Hi hihi hi hi hi hihihihihihihihi! Am Duuv! Hi!"

[coldhardfisting.livejournal.com]

Snow had run into the Chancellor down in the pod chambers, so had his moment of initial surprise down there. Seeing him again and in a brighter light than they had down there wasn't as surprising a thing, but Snow was able to get a better idea of how big the guy was. But this? This was something else.

He pulled his head back. And though anyone could tell he was quite put off by meeting ... a clot of blood, he still tried to not outright ask 'what the heck is that'. "Young ... fellow?"

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"Not aware of his species. We have only just met. But how is your young lady?"

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Could blood be a species? Meeting so many different kinds of beings like this was confusing. But it waved at him and spoke, so Snow figured for now he'd just go along with this until he learned more.

... Especially since the Chancellor brought up the magic subject, so that train of thought quickly de-railed. Snow smiled widely and nodded. "She's fine, now. Well-- she's just as lost as everyone is. But since I'm here for her, I'm going to do everything to get us the answers we need."

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"Yes. Fellow-fellow-fellow. Boy. Am." he affirmed. These things bore repeating.

He waved a long tendril at Snow. The tip of it was covered in still more tendrils, so fine and numerous that they almost looked like fur. "Hihihi! Hi! Am Duuv - you? Name? Hi!"

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Slowly, cautiously, even, Snow put out a gloved hand toward the tendril.

"Uuuh, I'm Snow."

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Golly, but the people here were so nice about inviting him to climb on them! He promptly extended with the intention of wrapping the tip of the tendril around Snow's hand, so as to provide a bridge for more of him.

"Hi, Snow! Hi hi hihihihihihi! Hi! Hi! Am Duuv! How are? Hi!"

[ternaui.livejournal.com]

"Excellent. There is much to answer. And unfortunately, we do not make the rules to this particular game. Duuv and I were discussing getting some food."