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hopefully this isn't too weird, but I sort of knew a Foggy Nelson back home and he happened to be a really great lawyer and I was kind of hoping that might carry over.

I sorta need a lawyer favor, but I can pay for your time.

Hello, Mr. Nelson. If you wouldn't mind, I have a citation here I'd like to contest, and I require some confirmation that's actually possible. Do you have a moment to read it over?

Hey, have you seen the Housing Bill thing that got announced on the network?

I mean, I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I had a legal question.

So one part of the text of the thing basically reads:
"A Volunteer is not a protected Volunteer if the Volunteer can be proven to have engaged in activity contrary to the laws and culture of Duplicity".

But there's no definition of what "proven" or "activity contrary to the laws and culture of Duplicity" means. So is this is as pointless as it sounds like?

Cause it really reads like they can just decide you're not protected by this thing if they feel like it.

[the video opens on a fifteen year old girl with a warm, friendly smile on her face. she's wearing the closest thing she can find to professional dress here with a white clutch held on her lap]

Hi! I saw your ad on the network and I spoke to your partner about interviewing for an assistant/secretary/gofer and thought I should introduce myself to you in advance! I'm Tinya Wazzo, I spent two years as my mother's diplomatic attache, and I know a great deal about interplanetary law. [she smiles disarmingly] Granted, most of my knowledge is specific to the 30th century, but I'm sure we can fill in the gaps.

[ Matt is fresh out of a meeting with a client and sums up the results of the conversation. Once the business talk is wrapped up he stops to ask in a more casual tone ]

By the way, what would you like for your birthday?

(continued from here)

Foggy laughs again, leaning in to kiss Matt once again just because he can. Then he takes Matt's hand, sliding the ring onto his left ring finger. He doesn't let go, running his thumb over the smooth metal as he describes it.

"It's a claddagh ring. It's, uh, an Irish thing - it's got two hands holding a heart, with a crown on top. Usually the crown extends a little past the band, but it's just a little strip of metal and I didn't want to risk it cutting into your skin if you punched someone, so it's pretty flush against the band. Uh, it's silver, and there's alternating rubies and diamonds set in the band. I thought I'd go red to match."

He's rambling a little bit, and his voice is a lot more heated than it usually is when he's describing how something looks for Matt. It's just - Matt said yes, and he can't stop staring at the ring on his finger. He takes Matt's other hand, threading their fingers together and giving a brief squeeze before he shifts his hand to guide Matt's fingers over the shape of the heart in the ring.

"If you wear it with the heart pointing out, it means you're looking for love. With the heart pointed in, it means someone's captured your heart and your taken. The hands represent friendship, the heart is love, and the crown is loyalty, so, uh. Even without the whole Nelson family tradition, I figured it was perfect for us."

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Audio [A few days prior the occasion]

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