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[ Kaz usually eschews using the Network at all, so it's unusual to see him on it now. ]

Well, it seems like something interesting has happened to the ground near Stark's forge. Does anybody have any ideas on that? But that's not what this message is meant to be about. It's meant to be asking for anyone else with the Engineer Datapoint, or better yet someone that could fix whatever has gone wrong with trying to send or receive messages in the new city, to come to the new city's Power Station. While Cal has already set up a camp there, there is still a great deal of work that needs to be finished before it is operational.

[ With that, he does switch from a general message to more specific ones; ]

Moonshade, I need to see what it is you wanted from the greenhouse, and I've used up all the leather I had for making drawstring bags. Where would you want me to go to give them to you?

There is a water treatment facility in the Power Station but it is not operational yet. Lauri-Ell, would you be good enough to carry freshwater there for me? I'm just a poor cripple that can't manage it, myself.

[ Yes he is hamming it up for that bit. ]

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Now, I gotta ask why are we tryin' to get another city up and runnin' when this one ain't finished?

[ Says the man who hasn't been to the new city even once. He doesn't get the point of it and his doubtful expression makes that clear. ]

You've got a fair point, but I've got a feeling some more puzzle pieces about Temba will be found here, rather than Temba itself.

Don't rightly agree with that.

[ But he doesn't sound angry about it. More like he's resigned that people are going to run off for awhile and Temba will need more looking after while those folks are gone. ]

Look, I'm busy right now with the mines so I can't lend my engineering for awhile. If you all don't have the other city up and runnin' by the time I finish my business here I'll come lend a hand for a bit. Not long though. This place still needs people to work on it.

I didn't expect you personally to come since you're the only one among us captives to know very much about mining.

[ Kaz's tone was as dry as dust for that. ]

Both Temba and the new city have been connected to each other since long before we were here. That connection alone makes me think there is more to find from exploring more of this city. It will be found faster if there's water, at least. And having drinking water first depends on having electricity.

Oh no. A city without water.

[ Cobb just can't help himself. The sarcasm slips out because his town back home doesn't have water naturally. He waves a hand to clear away the words like they were actually floating there. ]

I can give you a few tips on transporting water and how to make it last if you'd like. Hell, give me some time and maybe I can figure out how to make a vaporator from the scrap around here. Then you won't have to worry as much.

[ Ha ha, Cobb. Kaz bypasses the sarcasm and frowns in confusion. ]

It might help if I knew what a vaporator was.

Pulls moisture out of the air and condenses it into drinkin' water. Around here with how damp it is you'd probably only need one to sustain a few people.

[ Building one might be faster than trying to get a whole system up and running. Cobb scratches at his beard as he thinks about it for a moment. ]

That or just a real good filter system and you'd be set.

[ Kaz blinks once, doing fairly well at keeping his astonishment out his facial expression or voice. ]

Are you actually able to build one with materials that are already available in Temba?

[ If so, Kaz would be watching like a hawk to memorize how to build one. You may have just given the camp in Sh'Ka drinking water singlehandedly, Cobb.

No kriffin' idea. Haven't looked since there's all this water just lyin' around.

[ He shrugs. ]

Let me look around and I'll get back to you.

Near the Forge? Is your dragon-friend hurt? Maybe something exploded again? When I first went to talk to him like you suggested, everything was on fire.

I could give the other city's power station a look.

[ Dragon-friend? And apparently, something exploded, which Kaz is sorry he missed. ]

I don't know since I've been away from Temba for a few days. But if you want to come back to work on this practically derelict Power Station, that would be appreciated.

And now you've piqued my interest; where things literally on fire, as in the Forge burned down, or it happened to be very smokey?

[ Scary dragon friend! At first. Then tony was actually pretty nice and less terrifying. but he sure left an impression. ]

Maybe we should also check if he's all right. Sure, it's no problem! I've been making crystals lately, I'll bring a few with me just in case.

Both, really. Something had exploded but I don't know what caused it. And Tony had scary metal Exo corpses hanging on the ceiling.

Hm.

[ Kaz makes a noncommital sound in regard to checking on Tony's welfare ~~Alberto you're going to make Kaz into a decent person, please don't stop~~ but you can practically hear the record scratch sound when Kaz's thoughts are hijacked by the idea of Tony having robot corpses hanging from his ceiling. ]

...wait, seriously?

I'm sure he will be happy to see a friend checking on him.

[ It's the nice thing to do, Kaz! ~~Can't stop, won't stop. You are welcome.~~]

Yes. They're half build and in brighter colors than Cayde. Red and gold, I think...but a lot of them were covered in sooth.

[ Kaz wrinkles his nose up in distaste. ]

Talk about ghoulish decorations, even if they were brightly colored.

[ ~~This is the best game of Telephone, ever.~~ ]

And it would be a stretch to call Stark a friend of mine. You'd probably be better off just saying he's an 'acquaintance' of mine.

I know right? It was really freaky. He said he built them himself, but that they weren't finished.

[ There had been a misunderstanding and Tony had run wild with Alberto's assumptions. And now this is the result: more incorrect facts, woops. ]

Acquaintances are just level 1 friends. [ Kid logic at its finest. ] Once you talk more to other people, that changes. Would it be so bad? He's going to help with the Vespa project.

[ Oh Alberto, you sweet summer child. ]

Stark is generally good with building projects.

[ Also, it helps that Alberto, being an apparently harmless kid, was the one doing the asking. ]

I'm also trying to figure out if you seriously are asking why I don't have more friends?

[ He is literally that. ]

In my experience, he's also good at un-building them. [ Aka, destroying stuff.

He didn't mean that in an insulting way, promise! ]

Oh! I was talking about Tony specifically. Since he's a bit weird. [ Said the sea monster kid, who's weirdness level is off the charts. ]

Unbuilding as in taking stuff apart, or unbuilding as in using explosives?

[ Context is the difference here. ]

Probably for many reasons, but I've dealt with him before snd know he does good work. But I haven't been looking to make many 'friends.'

[ You're a really unique case, Alberto.]

The later. But perhaps he's also good at taking things apart, he does seem very thorough in everything he does.

I don't think the number of friends really matters, but what kind of relationship you have with them. Back home I only have two friends. I met them this summer and, for most of it, Giulia and I didn't get along fully. It was my fault, really... [ He can admit that much now. It took him a long while to accept that truth, but he does. ] But it does feel nice to have friends, people you can trust and that will look after you when no one else does. Not even yourself.

[ Thanks...? I try ♥ »( ꈍ◡ꈍ )« ]

[ Alberto may not realize it, and the rest of the world certainly won't, but Kaz does feel a hard pang of longing. He stamps it out ruthlessly since the last thing he would ever want is one of his crew, his friends, to be trapped in Temba too. ]

I'm not big on trust to begin with but I haven't met anyone in Temba that I would trust to that extent.

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