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So we all know each other's... well buried secrets.

Except, I imagine that they're still quite well buried. They all came at once - and unless you put the effort in to go back and read everyone's... it's hard to remember who said what, except the people you were really paying attention to. Especially if you were trying to control the damage someone else was doing, or making huge confessions of our own.

[Warden filter, minus Jane]

Two questions, everyone:

Does anyone have any... technology I could ~~borrow~~ have? Nothing dangerous or lethal. It doesn't even have to be useful. Just anything that post-dates either Victor, or tractors. Some are for him, some are for other purposes.

Secondly, does anyone have... children? Just as a query.

[Filtered to Prefect, Narvin, any other painfully bureaucratic wardens]

Um.

Is there something you need to do or fill in when an inmate graduates? Like... something official?

I'd hate to miss any formalities and you seem the sort of gentlemen who would know.

[Private to the Admiral]

I'd like to change my deal. I'd like, specifically, the following Univisual paints:

[INSERT LONG LIST OF hue-brightness-saturation NUMBERS HERE]

Many thanks in advance.

[Private to Jane]

Victor's going to graduate.

I... I think I might go home. ~~mostly to punch dad.~~

Stop me, if you want. I'm not sure why, I just feel like... the longer I stay here, the more complacent I get.

I... asked for my deal to be changed back to the original. I supposed that was the less selfish option.

Do what you like with yours, but I'd... please think of Dorien.

Come to my room tonight.

[Private to Victor]

Did you have that conversation with Rex?

And... I hope you don't think I'm too much of a bad man. For... everything with Violet.

[Private to George]

I'm sorry if I was... short with you. I didn't realise that...

Things work differently at home, I think.

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Why would I stop you? You have your deal. This is why we're here. Because of that. Because of the Grand Plan. And your part in the Plan is to go back home, become Prefect, and wiggle your way into National Colour.

We can choose when we return, Eddie. I won't be long behind you.

But no. I don't think I'll be there tonight.

I have an electric kettle and a gravitational anomaly detector. Which would you like to borrow?

And I have a granddaughter. Does that count?

Because... part of me wants to stay. Doesn't want to leave you, and feels guilty for it.

I guess 'please' won't make a great deal of difference, will it?

What exactly is the second one?

Sorry, it's not really what I'm looking for, I don't think.

It's alright, and: perhaps they are, it's just something I take slightly personally.

No, no, I understand.

I should have been more careful in what I said, it was quite impolite.

You should go. You have things to take care of. A wife. A child. Becoming a Colourman.

No, it won't. Drop it. I can't do this.

But...

You're upset, Jane. I can see that, but what can I do... I don't...

I can't do this.

I'm not upset!

There's just nothing we can do about this and I knew it would happen when my first two inmates left and I was stalling for almost five months.

So this has nothing to do with you.

You sound it!

...Except it does. I could choose to stay. I just... I don't think I should.

Then don't.

I am afraid I cannot help you with the technology. As for children, I had a son, though he passed on a few years ago. Why the curiosity?

But I don't want to upset you.

...and what did you think would happen?

I...

It's a little complicated.

Can I ask if you think you were a good father?

Pretty much this.

But I could hardly lie to you.

Of course you couldn't.

Eddie, you're going to leave, and there's nothing I can do to stop that. [Pause.] I want you to stay. But you're right. You probably shouldn't.

No.

I just... I wanted this to last longer.

It cou-

Stop, Eddie. Stop.

[Oh look it's one of the few things Iroh considers a tricky subject.]

...

Truthfully? I think it is hard for me to know, even now. I loved him very deeply, and at the time, I believed sincerely that I was a good father. It was in another role that I failed him.

I...

I will.

Oh.

Are the two roles not related?

You can come here if you want.

Are you sure?

When he reached adulthood, I was his commanding officer in our nation's army. I saw that as unrelated to my duty to him as a father.

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