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[tucky]

I been thinking. I thought it was cool how the Enclosure got programmed the way it did for Bucky's party, so I was wondering if I could do that, too-- not for a party, but for a fireworks show. I don't know if any of the people here have ever been to one, but where I come from, they're real popular in the summer. You go to a big empty field at night, sit on blankets, and just... watch. Maybe bring out a keg of beer or something, I don't know. You think the Enclosure could do that?

I wanted to do it on my birthday, if things are all calmed down. Sometimes these shows can get crazy and loud with people dancing and partying, but I know I ain't in a raucous mood, and I bet I'm not the only one. So maybe a quiet one would be good right now. Something relaxing.

It'd be nice, I think.

[filtered to Dillon, Iris, Letty, Mason, Morgana, and Simon]

Merlin's better. He-- it's real complicated, but he didn't mean that stuff he said. I know that nothing was making him say it, but he had those parasites in him that had him thinking it was the best thing to do, and... he regrets it. He changed his mind.

[She sounds relieved, if just a tiny bit wary. She wasn't affected by the Sha herself, and she still isn't 100% clear on what exactly it was or how it worked-- so while she's ever-trusting and wants to give her warden the benefit of the doubt, it's going to take her a week or so of him being normal for her to fully believe that he really is staying, and he really does want her as his inmate.]

I ain't mad at him. Y'all don't have to be either.

[Mason and Simon, she's looking at you.]

[filtered to Crowley]

Hi.

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[tucky]

Yeah, that's the kind of place I would go, too. But, uh-- I mostly just drank beer.

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[demolitions]

Do you have a preference for one kinda beer over another?

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[tucky]

I like Budweiser.

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[demolitions]

Most people do. [In redneck territory anyway.]

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[tucky]

Not here. Y'all think it's awful.

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[demolitions]

What, on the Barge? Well, to be honest, I ain't noticed a lot of rednecks here.

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[tucky]

When I went drinking with Anthony he wanted me to try his British stuff. It weren't bad. Kinda different, though.

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[demolitions]

No, I don't think I could abide dark warm beer, tolerance for cultural diversity notwithstandin'.

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[tucky]

That's 'cause we're America and we do it better.

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[demolitions]

That, we surely do.

[He raises his shot glass to toast to that, and is surprised to find it empty. Whoops, better fill it again.]

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[tucky]

But now we're on the Barge, and the Barge is like... nowhere. We ain't in any country at all. We're all foreigners, except maybe for Iris.

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[demolitions]

Just because we're here, that don't mean we've left our cultural identity behind. Look at America—a country made up of immigrants, poor and downtrodden people comin' together to form a new nation, bound together by the promise of a better life, only to get kicked in the nuts in generations to come by the bureaucracy and end up just as downtrodden as they were back where they came from.

[Where did that soapbox come from.]

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[tucky]

I know. I'm still proud of where I come from.

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[demolitions]

So am I.

[Pride being high on the list for most people in that remote corner of the US known as Appalachia.]

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[tucky]

You get people who say you shouldn't be?

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[demolitions]

Oh yeah, we've got lots of people lookin' down on us.

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[tucky]

Me, too.

You know, in my old prison, I got called Pennsatucky. I don't think the person who started it meant it as a compliment.

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[demolitions]

No, that seems akin to bein' called a hillbilly.

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[tucky]

Yeah, but then it caught on, and not everybody meant it that way.

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[demolitions]

Did you mind it much after that?

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[tucky]

I didn't mind it much in the first place. I didn't really think much about how it was probably an insult until... now, I guess.

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[demolitions]

Why until now? Did I say somethin?

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[tucky]

Uh-uh. Just thinking about it again now, that's all.

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[demolitions]

Well, there're worse insults.

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[tucky]

Sure. It just shows that I don't think any of them respected me, even a little bit. Ever.

[Except her God Girls.]