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<h1>Chapter 29</h1>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: i see him.</p>
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<p class="aradia">ARADIA: ooh is it the prince</p>
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<p class="sollux">SOLLUX: fucking finally.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: no.</p>
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<p class="aradia">ARADIA: :/</p>
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<p class="no-indent">Calliope animates the puppet body she
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inhabits, the same one that has not aged a day since it crashed
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here, and rouses it from perfect, corpse-like stillness. Dead-Jade
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unfolds from her meditation pose and pushes to her feet in an
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elegant sweep.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: it is the one i have been waiting
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for all these years.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: we have run along parallel lines for
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what may as well be eternity, but my gravitational well has finally
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ensnared him.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: and now he is due to fall into this
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world.</p>
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<p class="no-indent">Dead-Jade folds her hands behind her as she
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rises into the air, body language delicate, purposeful. Aradia
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hitches her arm around Sollux’s back to lift him up, and follows
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Jade’s body out into the open air. She casts her pitch-black eyes
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down to watch the dark clouds of battle beginning to form above the
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Human Capital below. Sollux frowns.</p>
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<p class="sollux">SOLLUX: are y0u sure y0u want t0 g0 d0wn there?
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it seems like it’s ab0ut t0 get wild.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: yes. more than you can possibly
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imagine.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: the chaos war is about to begin, and
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our window of opportunity is narrow.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: we must be there when he falls.</p>
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<p class="calliope-dead">JADE: come with me.</p>
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