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[intheblanks]

[Lab coat on, it's another general address. Anyone paying attention might note he rarely (deliberately) uses the network for anything personal.]

All non-emergency surgical procedures are officially cancelled until further notice. The hospital can no longer guarantee a non-contaminated operating space. If anyone knows a way to hold the sand back, or of somewhere that's not emulating the Sahara, please get in touch. When I want to go to work in flip-flops I'll open that beach shack.

[He reaches forward to turn off the monitor. Hesitates.]

Oh, and for those of you who weren't taught it when you were three: don't take candy from strangers.


[ooc: he's eaten dozens of the hearts, but he's unlikely to be telling -you- that. His secrets are available in multiples and still open for takers.]

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[intheblanks]

The prisons are decomposing in the absence of laws. Consular representation's likely to boil down to who picks the virgin to throw into the volcano.

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[notelegrams]

Beyond their state of bureaucratic disarray, Doctor, prisons are as likely to decompose physically as were your own work quarters. We will then find ourselves in the peculiar position of managing a crisis and pursuing fugitives.

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[intheblanks]

I've yet to hear what's defined as criminality in a world where the monsters aren't metaphorical. Are there enough potential escapees to warrant your concern?

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[notelegrams]

Even one correctly identified rapist or murderer is enough.

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[intheblanks]

You realise you could throw a rock and hit one on a good day? The moral majority swings the other way here.

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[notelegrams]

Statistics or silence, Doctor.

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[intheblanks]

The rules here have to be different.

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[notelegrams]

In virtue of convenience, not civic integrity.

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[intheblanks]

By virtue of your integrity not being the benchmark.

Are you human? I assume so, but you're hiding, which suggests you also don't consider yourself equal.

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[notelegrams]

I take the precaution of courtesy and the luxury of anonymity. Neither dents my humanity, Doctor.

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[intheblanks]

No. But anonymity's the state in which people are most comfortable flouting moral expectation.

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[notelegrams]

Insofar as they do not also attach practical effort to it.