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[As early evening stretches shadows and forces the temperature down from Unpleasantly Hot to Basically Tolerable, Penny finishes scraping the last traces of graffiti from the Welcome Center's facade. She picks up a small stack of posters and addresses the network.]

Okay. I'm all for getting involved in what's going on in the community and freedom's a great thing, but it's been a week and I'm still picking these [a demonstrative wave of the posters] up. The graffiti's not too bad. The flyers, though? I don't know where anything in the City comes from or if we need to worry about conserving natural resources, but in most places, all of this anti-deity Cityzen stuff would be putting a dent in the tree population.

I'm not saying that stirring up some rebellion is bad. I just don't think we need to go around wallpapering the City with posters when we can talk about it. Save some trees--or whatever it is paper gets made out of here.

Oh! And sorry, but I'm not interested in any uprisings right now. Just trees. The curses've been weird enough this month without annoying the deities, right?

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I get to be on vacation from duty. The only downside is Yevgeny isn't here.

Hey, he might show up again, and until then there're plenty of people who like having you around.

[Raikov smile is a bit uncertain. The only bad thing about Yevgeny showing up would be... his relationship with Nathan.]

Yeah... I know.

[There's that, but Penny doesn't think about it in terms of complications. Love can work itself out for some people.]

Do you have any free nights this next week, Ivan?

Tuesday and Wednesday. Why, wanna do something?

I would if you don't have plans. Maybe we could go somewhere that's not the Blue Light--oh, what about Nathan? I don't want to steal you from him.

I don't. And he won't mind. Hmm... We could go to Angelo Amore?

Ooh, fancy. It's a date.

I'll pay.

Are you sure? I mean, at least let me make dessert.

... You'll make dessert?

For you? Yeah, of course. It's the least I can do for one of my favorite people of all time.

You spoil me, Penny.

Only because you deserve it, Ivan.

I know.

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