Taking this muse box's virginity like a Fon Master

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[Ion actually looks pretty cute in 1880's England fashion. Nothing fancy, street kid clothes, and without the official robes and girly ornaments of the Fon Master... His gender is still pretty ambiguous. But as he's been staying with the Children of Perpetual Care he's been doing his best to blend in and be useful.]

[As much as he can at any rate. He's been trying to learn the language the proper way. And it helps that he is honestly and sincerely a people person. It may not be wise to walk around London and chat up strangers, but it's also something he truly enjoys.]

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[The faint happiness Jade feels is an echo of Ion's. It isn't empathetic happiness; it was the vague contentment he felt when those who mattered to him were happy.] She'll certainly be one of the more interesting ones. Perhaps as tasking on her attendants as some other Fon Masters I've known.

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[Ah that's not fair, just because he decided to sneak away from the Order on Jade's request... But he's still smiling. He doesn't feel repentant at all. In fact, he's really happy right now.]

I hope she'll be even worse. The Order needs someone like her.

[Someone bold and decisive.]

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I agree. They'll do good work. [Jade's mind skims over who else Ion might be interested in. The rest of the party, of course.] His Imperial Majesty is happily running Guy ragged. We've been trying to get him married. [By which he means they've been messing with Guy by threatening to marry him off to every clingy noblewoman they can throw at him. Messing with Guy is a team sport that Peony and Jade love playing.] Natalia has been doing excellent work in Kimlasca. She'll have a very popular rule when her time comes.

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[Ion is happy to listen, glad to hear what everyone is up to. He laughs again, under his hand.]

How is the world faring?

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It's doing well. The new world order may have a few hurdles to leap over, but remarkably, cooperation between the nations appears to be very productive towards that end. We old soldiers are feeling quite out of work.

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Somehow I doubt you aren't busy.

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[a pause, and then]

I've started to research fomicry again.

[Jade Curtiss is a man who is good at not saying what he ought to. Ion has not asked about Arietta, so Ion won't be told about Arietta. Ion never asked the right question to be told the truth about Luke. But this announcement he offers Ion in almost a vacuum. He offers it up for judgement from one of those he sees fit to judge him.]

[After a moment, he is compelled to explain.] I want to raise the status of replicas to more than mere replacements. They can't be left to flounder in a world without any infrastructure for their support.