Temple Keeper: solve my puzzle, waste no time
Joey: Alex, use your galaxy brain to–
Temple Keeper: your responses all must rhyme
Alex: hey, Mr. Passionate Romantic Poet, step up
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Kiln: Everyone expects me to know everything about the ancient past – culture, applied theology, magitech, pop culture, crystal programming, harnessing of the Unquenched Fire of the Stars … I’m just a normal guardian warrior, not a high priest or magus-general or speaker-for-gods.
Alex: Suck it up. You’re the only one left. Represent.
Kiln: (raises an eyebrow)
Alex: So … about that Unquenched Fire thing …
Kiln: I would tell you, but it would break my Vows of Secrecy to the Birds of the Gray Valley.
Alex: You’re just making that up.
Kiln: No, I’m representing.
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Alex: So, Joey – since we now know you have ties to these ancient temples –
Joey: Don’t remind me.
Alex: Just a quick question, then, asking for a friend – do you know anything about the Unquenched Fire of the --?
Joey: I already talked with Kiln.
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Alex: Mette, your tech has a weird relationship that of Kiln’s people.
Mette: So it seems.
Alex: Have you ever heard of something like the Unquenched Fire of the Stars?
Mette: Hmmm. That sounds like it could be a reference to controlled fusion, the thermonuclear reactions which power the stardrives, our weaponry, free and easy energy for all our purposes.
Alex: Yes! So what do you –
Mette: I would tell you, but it would break my Vows of Endeeyay to the Department Masters of Engineering Services.
Alex: (blinks)
Mette: Also, I spoke with Kiln.
Alex: Goddammit.
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Roddy: Hey, Alex!
Alex: Sup?
Roddy: I just heard Kiln talking with Tahi, and he mentioned the Unquenched Fire of the Stars.
Alex: Yes! What did he say about it?
Roddy: Oh, I didn’t pay any attention to that. But isn’t it a wicked-cool name?
Alex: I’d be better off gathering intel from the Marx Brothers.
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Joey: I just don’t think I have a chance with Mette
Alex: well then I guess Evan’s gonna get his–
Joey: wait. That description makes me angry enough to give it a shot just in case
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Alex: if things don’t work out, I can always introduce her to a fellow agent
Joey: I can’t imagine stiff-necked impersonal Men in Black types being interesting to her
Alex: (holds up phone with picture) this is Chad Muscular, AEGIS Junior Agent
Joey: (snaps every pencil)
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Alex: You can do this, Joey.
Joey: I’m frightened, Alex.
Alex: You can impress her.
Joey: What if she says no? What if disgust washes across her face?
Alex: She knows your worth. You can be the hero. Do you want to be the hero, Joey? Then do it.
Joey: I –
Alex: Do it!
Joey: All right! All right! (Deep breath.) Princess Arizella, I think I have a piece to fill in that last empty slot in the Academy Poetry Annual this year …
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Roddy: every part of that jungle was trying to kill us. It’s kind of nice to be back at school.
Teacher: we’re having a pop quiz on US economics in the 1940s and 50s.
Roddy: some of the plantlife was really nice to look at though, we should go back
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Bully: we don’t need a lot of freaks like you at this school
Alex: there’s only one freak like me and that’s me
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Kiln: you and I were so far away from each other in time and space
Mette: it’s amazing that we would ever meet
Kiln: and be able to share this exciting adventure together
Mette: I wouldn’t give this up for anything
Alex: (nearby) who took all of my microwaveable taquitos?!
Kiln: keep running
Mette: you don’t have to tell me
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Joey: that jerk Evan only has one thing on his mind
Alex: are you any different?
Joey: I got like three things okay?
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Kiln: I’ve made a deal with the Devil
(earlier)
Overprotective demon dads: what are your intentions toward our little girl?
Kiln: Chris? Entirely honorable. She is a good friend and I like her cooking
ODDs: okay cool. Listen. We have to be out for the week. Could you um, could you fill in for us and punish anyone who makes trouble for her?
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Hunter: hey look it’s the lonely nerd
Alex: some days, the only reason I don’t commit murder is my fear of commitment
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Jillian: you have a real attitude problem, you know
Gothwitch: I have an annoying classmate problem, I have an attitude solution
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Alex: this class is boring, imma skip
(In the future)
Terrorist: we will execute the hostages one per minute unless you name the capital of Nebraska without Googling
Alex: I was honestly not expecting this outcome
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Hunter: hey losers
Alex: it’s like you’re committed to being awful as often as possible. You’re a jerkaholic
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(the wilds of Costa Rica, dawn)
Alex: god dammit I need coffee where’s my machine…?
Kiln: doesn’t your culture teach you to hunt for the basic necessities?
Alex: no, we’re civilized, we pay other people to do it
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Alex: I need coffee or I’m gonna go insane in this godforsaken low bandwidth jungle
Kiln: let me show you the secret
Alex: pff, like you’re going to hunt up some–
Kiln: (holds up a Keurig machine with an arrow through it)
Alex: what…? How–?
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