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What is a prahm? Is it important?

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How old are you?

[a slight pause.]

I don't know, exactly. It's been at least a hundred years, now...

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[LMAO welp. he didn't catch that because he wasn't looking at the feed! so there's a pause.

uncertain:]

...Baroona?

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... No one is that old.

[.,.,]

...Perhaps not in your world, but...

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... Sorry.

[a more apologetic tone than the apology:]

It's nothing. There's a lot that's different.

Are you the oldest in your world?

I don't know for certain. I was the first of my kind...but until a Mu is given a chance to live and die naturally...

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...Ares wants to know if there's a game. In the prahm.

[a pause, thrown off a bit there.]

Let me see, then...[beat.]

I don't...see mention of any. Music. Dancing. Certain attire...

Certain attire?

Yes. "Formal attire" seems to be one of the major points of the event.

Figures.

You sound even less enthusiastic.

Like I said: Balls are for nobles.

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