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[k2so]

[The sound starts before anything can be seen clearly in the video, the screen partially blocked by the fingers holding the device. There's yelling. Lots of it in fact, and very creative insults.]

Let me go you rust bucket! I’m gonna shove your pistons up your fuel port when I get free! Frigging rusting Imp clanker!

I told you, you smell.

[Kay’s voice is that of a parent who had this argument too many times to count before and has reached the point of giving fucks in negative digits. There's more yelling, some frantic noise and then the sound of water splashing followed by an angry shriek.

The screen shifts until Kay comes to view. He's covered head to toe in different colorful graffiti. Anarchist slogans, symbols, crude caricatures, complaints against the Republic and Empire, and bright stains are scattered all over his black frame.

He's in the bathroom of his shared house with Cassian, who had been turned a kid after eating one of these strange eggs. Next to him, inside the bathtub and still fully clothed, teenage Cassian is still yelling at him and even throwing the occasional shampoo bottle at his head. The droid pays him no mind.]

Does anybody know how to wash off spraypaint from durasteel?

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[polyandrist]

[Not quite a teen, but still moody as hell.]

Do people try and poison him?

[Mels gets it.]

[k2so]

[She's still being more reasonable than most.]

No that I'm aware, no. But he's had a difficult uprising.

I'm K2SO, and you are...?

[polyandrist]

A lot of people can be really mean.

[Not that she has experience with that, nope.]

Mels.

[k2so]

Sadly. Abd boys lack of manners.

Nice to meet you, Mels. Have you arrived here recently.

[polyandrist]

Sorta. Just woke up here a couple of days ago.

[k2so]

And you are all alone or there's people lookign after you?

[One kid is problematic enough but he's not about to leave another live ont he streets.]

[polyandrist]

'm fine. The Doctor's here.

[Which is actually not a lie.]

[k2so]

Ah...which one? There's like, 3 of them.

[polyandrist]

The Raggedy one. Not the one with the big hair.

[k2so]

Uhm..I only ever talked to one of them, I think that's the one. He wears a pinstripe suit.

You're from the same world then?

[polyandrist]

Yeah. Kinda. But the Doctor's an alien.

[k2so]

Aren't we all?

[polyandrist]

'm not.

[A little too defensive.]

[k2so]

You're human, I assume. Humans are aliens to other species.

It's a big Galaxy.

[polyandrist]

[This is the first time anyone has actually asked her, and Mels has the inclination at this age to show off. So some conflict plays out on her face before she just agrees with him.]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[k2so]

[Kay doesn't usually pays attention to people's age. he is technically 13 years old, so age is not indications of intelligence or wisdom.]

Hm....are you not human and I was making assumptions? If so, my apologies.

[polyandrist]

No!

[That's quick.]

I'm human!

[k2so]

Okay, okay, I got it. [Kay raises his hands in apology.] And how did you and the Doctor meet?

[polyandrist]

He knows my friend Amy. He's gonna take her travelin' with him.

[k2so]

Oh, her. We talked int he past. She's funny.

[polyandrist]

She's the best. Her and Rory, but he isn't here.

[k2so]

I think Amy might have mentioned him before. They're a couple, right?

[polyandrist]

Not yet.

[k2so]

Not yet? You're sure it's going to happen?

[polyandrist]

Yep.

[But instead of saying that she knows it does and the reasoning for it (Mels is their child after all) she just says]

It's got to be them two.