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I've had a good number of people travel with me over the years. One of them was a young man named Hex. He was a brilliant lad, a nurse, who joined us and at first was astounded and amazed at every wondrous thing I presented before him. The space ships. The alien worlds. Travelling to his own distant past.

But then he met Cromwell, and it was Cromwell who started him down the path to being broken. He'd taken quite a shine to Ace, who many of you met. And when he thought he'd lost her, he did terrible things in her name. They haunted him, later. A healer, suddenly burdened with the loss of lives that circumstantially or not, he led to.

Things became worse. He was held for interrogation as a murder suspect. He was brainwashed at a military installation. Occurrence after occurrence, gradually damning him until that was all he could see rather than any of the good he'd done. I still regretted it when he left. Selfishly, too, because I was frustrated I wanted to show him so much wonder and all I did was show him the value of death.

Thus far, I've been burnt alive, shot, stabbed, mentally violated, and caught a plague while aboard this ship. ...Doesn't seem like all that much in the grand scheme of things, now that I look at all the ways I've managed to die in the past.

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Speaking of being stabbed. There's a particularly dangerous potion on board that prompted an inmate to attack me in the infirmary. If I were to provide a list of ingredients and tell you the observed symptoms, panic being a primary one, I was wondering if at the very least a potion could be made to lessen or counter the effects.

[Private to Mozenrath]

I have a question to ask. You're a necromancer, correct?

[Private to Narvin]

I'm ready to organize our meeting with Arthas. I swear on Pythia's pantaloons if you so much as switch a single neuron that oughtn't to be touched, I'll make you drop your trousers in front of him.

[YEAH! HOW'S THAT FOR A THREAT!]

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You'll--? [Horrified expression. Then he closes his hanging-open-with-shock jaw with a snap and puts on stiff expression.]

I wouldn't dream of altering a synapse in Arthas' perfect head.

What do you have in mind for a training technique to start with?

One psychically compels him with a weak gesture to sit or stand. The other instructs him on ignoring the impulse. Simple enough to start with.

Simple enough...if Arthas doesn't brain the person psychically compelling him in a fit of anger.

That's the risk you signed on for, I would presume.

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Was there any particular point to that?

Yes.

And now I'm hungry. So I believe I'll make myself a sandwich.

Which would be?

And sandwiches are hardly a sufficient meal. [So much disapproval. You people and your sucky food.] Besides, I have a question.

[And he starts out with an "r" roll.] Refuse happens.

[What, why would he say "shit" when he could roll an "R"?]

What question would that be?

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That's the trade I received most of my training in, yes. Why?

Having two death knights on board that can't heal from their injuries without being "reset", I was wondering if you would help in creating a potion that could heal their wounds so that we might treat them in the infirmary.

And I would want to do this why?

I'll forgo the usual moral pleas for an offer of favours or materials. So long as I might inform your warden I've performed or given you something, then I'll do my very best to obtain it.

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Do you know what happened to that guy? Hex?

I met him again later. He forgave me for most of it. He was gravely hurt at one point, and I thought I'd never see him again.

[There were mad scientists who killed his mother involved. Things become complicated.]

What brought this on? Are you afraid the Barge will make you lose perspective?

No. I'm just noting that it happens sometimes. And it's something that should be watched for.

At the risk of sounding self centered, do you think I'm turning out like him?

You already did. I'm just glad that I got you back. It was difficult to think I was going to lose you, and I'll freely admit that.

I'm perhaps not the best warden for this place. I'll always give you and Tim priority over my inmates. Not because I dislike them, but short of Braxiatel you're the closest thing to family I have. And when you are hurt, when you're belittled, and when I'm told that my caring for you is inappropriate it does infuriate me to no end because I'm the one who needs you.

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...that sounds kind of like Arthas, in a way.

A lot of people are like Arthas. I think that's part of why he frightens them.

I'm not afraid of him. I just...want to make him better. Not be depressed all the time.

You know something strange? I do too.

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