"Nothing," Jaune spat. "We spent all night long scouring the city, and we've got nothing to show for it. How? How did we not find anything?"

"Jaune, we know Emerald has some sort of illusionary semblance," Ren reminded him. "You can't honestly be that surprised."

He sighed. "I know, but still…I just don't like it. I don't like them being in the city, and we have no idea where! We don't know what they want. Why they're here, what they're planning, nothing! And now we have to go back empty-handed."

"It's unfortunate," Ren agreed. "But it's also for the best, I think. Nothing good would have come out of us running into them by ourselves tonight. What if you rushed into a fight?"

"Ren, I already said that wasn't the plan-"" Jaune tried to protest.

"I know, but what we planned to do and what would have happened are two very different things," Ren said. "Would you honestly have been able to walk away once we found out where they were hiding? Or would you have run ahead and started a fight like you did at Haven?"

Jaune winced. "That was different. That was Cinder."

"And these are her lackeys," Ren noted. "They were a part of the Fall as much as she was. They might not have fired the arrow that killed Pyrrha, but they put Cinder in a position where she was able to."

"I know that!" Jaune snapped. "I would have been able to stay away. It doesn't even matter now, anyway. We couldn't find them. We'll just have to hunker down and wait for the others to get here before we go out looking again."

Ren frowned. "I'm only trying to look out for you. I don't want them to hurt anymore of my friends, Jaune."

He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I know, I know. Seriously though, it doesn't matter anymore. We'll be fine." A crack of thunder in the distance drew their attention. Back in the direction of the forest, a storm was brewing. "That's over near where the others should be," He observed. "I doubt they're going to want to travel through that."

Ren nodded in agreement. "At best, we can expect them here sometime tomorrow."

"Which means even longer having to know that those two are somewhere in the city," He complained.

"Jaune…" Ren warned.

He threw his hands up in the air. "Alright! I get it! I'm giving it up. Over. Done with. We'll figure it out later, let's just focus on getting back home for now."

Ren was content to let their conversation die out after that, and Jaune was glad for it. He could use the silence right about now. Brothers, this was all a mess! He thought the worst thing that they would have to deal with at Argus was agonizing over when Ruby and the others would make it back. It had been a good idea to split up, their only option, really, but they had all been worried out of their minds ever since.

They're scrolls being out of range of the CCT didn't help matters either.

He pulled his own scroll out to check one more time if they were in range yet, on a whim. It was pointless, he knew, but he still had to check. Sure enough, Ruby's scroll still showed no signal.

He sighed, stuffing the scroll back in his pocket. There wasn't any sense in getting worked up about them now. The others would get here when they got here, there wasn't really anything he could do to speed it up.

You know, I was really excited for this, He thought offhandedly. Pretty much as soon as Oscar let them know Atlas was their next step, he had been looking forward to seeing his sister again. He hadn't had a chance to visit Argus before Beacon. The only times he had seen Saphron and Terra were the few occasions they stopped by Ansel for the holidays.

He was looking forward to paying his sister a visit, catching up with her, reminiscing about old times. Introduce her to his friends and vice versa. He managed to get through one hug before it all came crashing down.

They hadn't even stepped into the house when they laid eyes on Mercury and Emerald. Just…standing there, like they belonged. Like there was nothing at all out of the ordinary with the two most wanted criminals in the world just lounging around his sister's house.

Oh yeah. And Mercury was holding his nephew.

After that, things went by in a flash. One moment everyone was just standing there, too surprised to do anything, and the next they were gone. Adrian was crawling around on the floor, confused, Jaune had drawn his sword almost without realizing it, and Mercury and Emerald were nowhere to be seen.

Jaune groaned, rubbing his temples. It'll be fine. Everything is going to work out in the end. For whatever reason, Mercury and Emerald hadn't harmed Saphron or Terra during their stay. And now that he had arrived, he sure as hell wasn't going to let anything happen to them. And backup would be arriving sometime tomorrow, hopefully. They weren't in any danger. They just had to make it through the night.

When he and Ren finally did make it to his sister's house, the broken moon hung high in the sky. He frowned. It had to be close to midnight by now. Had they really been gone that long?

"We did spend much of the night wandering the city on foot," Ren reminded him, noticing his confusion.

"I must have lost track of time, huh?" Jaune chuckled nervously, scratching the back of his neck. "On the plus side, that's a lot less time Mercury and Emerald have to operate. I doubt they'd want to move around in the daylight."

And with any luck, they would stay put long enough for him to get some sleep. He was tired. They'd probably have to sleep in shifts tonight, wouldn't they?

He turned the doorknob leading into the Cotta-Arc's home, and pushed it open. Immediately, his eyes widened, and all thoughts of sleep left his head as he was met with almost an identical sight as the one he was greeted by earlier.

Mercury sat on the couch, both arms crossed and one leg tossed over the other and an expression that could charitably be described as unhappy. Adrian was at his feet, playing with the pant of his leg.

Emerald must have been pacing around, not far behind him. As soon as Jaune opened the door, she stopped, her eyes latching onto them wide and full of fear. She looked as if she was about to bolt again right then and there.

Terra sat by Mercury, playing with Adrian, while Saphron stood not far from the door, looking nearly as nervous as Emerald. Nora was leaning up against the wall.

"W-wha…?" He tried to sputter out a question, but he couldn't quite understand what he was looking at.

Saphron took a deep breath, and clapped her hands together. "So! Let's try this again, shall we?"

Almost as soon as the words left her mouth, Jaune snapped out of his haze, drawing his sword. Saphron deliberately stepped in front of him, planting her feet and spreading her arms out. "No," She said sternly. "We are going to sit down and figure this out before anything else gets done."

"Are you out of your mind?" He roared. "I thought I already explained everything to you! They're murderers! Now step aside, before you get yourself hurt!"

"If I get hurt, it won't be anyone's fault but yours," She reprimanded. "Mercury and Emerald agreed to come back willingly after knowing that you were here. You can at least hear them out."

"You know, willingly is a very strong word…" Mercury mused.

Terra and Saphron both glared at him before he stuck his hands up in surrender. "...But accurate nonetheless," He corrected hastily. "Completely."

Jaune scoffed. "I can't believe this." He tried to push his way past her, but she dug her feet in the floor, using both hands to push him back.

"Just wait!" She growled from the effort. "I'm not going to pretend I have any idea what Beacon was like for you. What you went through, what you lost. What they put you through. I can't act like I can just ignore what I've seen for myself either. Mercury and Emerald have lived here for weeks without issue. They saved our lives last night. And I saw Emerald. Nora did too. She was devastated having to leave."

Jaune looked over towards Nora, giving her a confused look. She nodded. "Terra told me Mercury wasn't much better," Saphron continued. "I'm not trying to make excuses for them. I just want you to give them a chance to listen to them, so all of us know the full story."

Saphron bit her lip in worry. Jaune didn't look like he was going to give them a chance. He was livid, his eyes burning in anger. At least, until Ren laid a hand gently on her shoulder. "Perhaps we should at least listen to them first," He suggested. "Unless you want to start a fight in the middle of your sister's house. Besides, we may yet learn something from it."

The anger seemed to vanish, slowly, and the tension all but left her brother. Saphron almost sighed in relief. "Fine," He spat. "You win." He crossed his arms, glaring daggers into Mercury's eyes. "Here's your chance. Now tell us why you're here. Did Cinder send you? Did Salem? Were you planning to ambush us, or just take my sister hostage?"

Mercury, for his part, was unfazed looking at the sheer loathing reflected in Jaune's face. He mostly seemed annoyed at the whole thing. And a little jittery at being held in one place. He opened his mouth to answer, but Emerald cut him off before he got the chance.

"Nobody sent us," She blurted, surprising even herself. She began to stammer, playing with her hands nervously. "I-I just mean we came to Argus ourselves. To hide."

Jaune frowned. "From who? It wasn't like the authorities in Vale were in any position to chase you down after the fall. And Saphron said you've been here for weeks. It should be months if you came here right after the fall."

Emerald shook her head. "Not from the cops. Or at least, not just from them. From everyone. From Ozpin's spy, the drunk. From the General over in Atlas." Her voice lowered almost to a whisper. "From…from Cinder. From Salem."

"Bullshit!" Jaune snarled. "Why would you hide from your bosses?" Who's Salem? Saphron wondered.

"They're not our bosses anymore, blondie," Mercury snarked. "Maybe keep up with the rest of the class."

"Mercury!" Saphron hissed, stomping her foot on the floor. His eyes widened a little in surprise, and he actually shut up for once. She turned back to Emerald. "You were saying? Maybe start from the top. From Beacon. That'd be a good place to start, right Jaune?" She asked, forcing the last two words out through gritted teeth.

Jaune rolled his eyes, but nodded. "That's probably the best place to begin, yeah."

Emerald paled. "I don't…I don't think it's necessary. I don't think we really have to-"

"I'll take over," Mercury interrupted with a sigh. He and Emerald seemed to have a silent conversation, one that ended with a look of relief from Emerald. "After Beacon, Cinder was in a bad way. Your little silver-eyed friend did a number on her. One of her arm's were gone, and she was missing an eye. She was still burning when we found her, writhing around on the ground with smoke curling off of her skin."

"Good," Jaune growled. "She deserved it."

"Yeah, she did," Mercury agreed, to Jaune's obvious surprise. "And your friend should have finished the job. Stupid of her not to."

"My friend was in a coma after using her eyes!" Jaune defended. "It took everything she had to fend Cinder off the way she did!"

"Well, now we know why you lost at Beacon, don't we?" Jaune's eyes widened in anger, but Mercury cut him off before he had a chance to reply. "Do you want me to finish, or not?"

"Just hurry up!" Jaune said impatiently.

Mercury shrugged. "Like I said, after we found Cinder, she wasn't exactly in a position to do much of anything. We called an associate of ours, and hitched a ride back to Salem's castle."

"Associate?" Ren asked curiously.

"Salem has a castle?" Jaune blurted incredulously.

Mercury nodded. "She does. Nothing Ozpin or his little group doesn't know about. It's far enough away from civilization, and anything that gets close gets taken down by the Grimm, usually. As for the associate, I'll get to that."

"First off, when Cinder recovered enough to get some of her wits together, she was pissed. She abhors being seen as anything other than in complete control at all times. She likes to be seen as invincible, mysterious, above error." He paused for a moment to consider. "Which is really funny in hindsight. At the time, though, it was a lot more serious. She may have secured the Maiden powers, and brought down Vale, but she was injured in the process. That, and she failed to find the Relic in Beacon."

Jaun shared a look with Ren and Nora, before nodding. "Keep going," He encouraged.

Mercury rolled his eyes. "Whatever. So, Cinder won, but not completely. And in her eyes, anything less than a complete victory is an absolute failure. She got…volatile would be the best way to put it."

"Mind you, she was never exactly someone you would call stable," Mercury said. "Even before Beacon, she was testy. But it was more of a controlled anger. She could manage it. Save it for whatever poor bastard had failed her most recently. She knew when to step up the intimidation, and when to back off. She could be diplomatic."

"After Beacon, though?" Mercury shook his head. "It broke her. Not completely, but it messed her up. Whatever that Rose girl did, it got under her skin, and not just literally. It got in deep. She was so much worse. Flew into a rage at the slightest provocation. Sometimes, there wasn't even a reason to begin with."

Mercury's face darkened. "And then, she started taking her anger out on us. Tried to, at any rate. I never stuck around when she was getting worked up. I knew what to look for, what signs to watch out for so I could avoid her. Em, though?" Mercury scoffed. "She was the only person in that place who actually wanted to help the bitch. And she got burned for it. More than once."

He sighed. "After that, I was over it. I never gave a damn about Cinder, or Salem. I only followed her because I had nothing better to do. Once it became clear working for her wouldn't be anything but a health risk, I started working on a way to get out."

"I'm sorry, come again?" Jaune asked in bewilderment. "You worked for Cinder. You helped bring down a Kingdom. All because you had nothing better to do? Seriously? That's your excuse?"

Mercury scowled. "Yeah, actually it is."

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Jaune asked in disgust. "Do you not care about how many people you got killed? And for no reason!"

"You really wanna know?" Mercury asked. "Fine by me. And no, I don't care. Why the hell should I? I grew up on a mountain with a father who did his best to beat every lesson into me. My entire life, I was trained how to fight, and how to kill. I never left the mountain. Never went into town, never made any friends with the local brats. And it wasn't like anyone came for me. No Huntsman ever came swooping in to save the day. I had to kill my father myself. And you can be damn well sure he made me work for it."

Saphron held a hand to her mouth, her eyes widening in horror.

"And when I did? When I finally managed to put the bastard down?" Mercury laughed bitterly. "That's when I first met Cinder and Em. So no, I wasn't exactly endeared to the rest of the human race at the time, when my only experience was my old man, and what he told me. I was half dead when she arrived. My options were to go with her, or die on the mountain with my father. And I'll be damned before I let that bastard get one over on me."

Jaune looked conflicted. "You still could have left at any time," He said desperately. "You had to know you weren't doing the right thing."

Mercury laughed, no bitterness in his tone anymore. "The right thing?" He scoffed. "My father was a murderer. For as long as I can remember, I was told to fight and kill whoever I had to to survive. Tell me, what was the right thing to do on the mountain? Let myself die so I wouldn't work for Cinder?"

Jaune was silent, his lips pursed tightly. "Cinder helped me with my legs," Mercury continued, pulling up the pant leg Adrian was playing with to briefly reveal a prosthetic. Saphron frowned. I never knew…

"And what's more, she gave me something to do," He continued. "The right thing to do? Probably not. But why the hell would I care? What incentive did I have to care about the rest of the world? And by the time I realized how deep everything went, It was a moot point anyways. Cinder wasn't somebody you just walked away from. At least, not back then."

"Isn't that what you're claiming you did?" Jaune asked.

"I'm getting to that," Mercury chided. "Where was I, anyways? Right, making a plan. At that point, staying with Cinder wasn't an option anymore. Like I said, I was never loyal to her. And she had become obsessed with Ruby Rose. With vengeance. It was driving her mad, and I wasn't going to be around when she inevitably snapped."

He took a moment to consider his next words. "And…I couldn't leave Emerald behind, either. She was going to get herself killed if she stayed with Cinder, and I happened to have a problem with that by then. Took a bit of convincing, but Cinder was her own worst enemy. Burnt Emerald one time too many, and she took me up on my offer. We stole a bullhead, and flew as far away as we could as fast as we could."

Jaune snorted. "That simple, huh?"

"There's like, five people in all of Salem's castle," Mercury told him. "And the Seers are easy to avoid, if you're careful. Besides, we almost got caught anyway. Em did get caught. But Watts, that associate I mentioned, went down in one kick to the back of the head, and Tyrian is crazy, so he just let Em go."

Jaune's eyes widened in recognition. "Tyrian? The scorpion faunus?"

Mercury grinned. "I take it you've met the psychopath then?"

"Yeah," Jaune growled. "We have. He's the reason Nora can't speak anymore." Saphron watched Nora's hand go absently to her throat. A gruesome scar marked her skin. "He mentioned something about atoning for a failure," Jaune finished.

"Then there's your answer," Mercury said. "Salem must have gotten wind of Tyrian letting us walk. Hell, he probably told her himself. I doubt she was very happy."

"Then you're the reason she almost died!" He shouted.

"What, am I just magically supposed to know that would happen if we left?" Mercury asked rhetorically. "We were ditching the most powerful person on the planet. We had bigger concerns than a couple brats from Beacon."

Jaune took a step forward, but this time it was Nora who placed a hand on his shoulder. She held out a scroll for him to read, which Saphron could just barely make out. I want to hear them finish.

Her brother obviously wasn't happy, but he took a deep breath, stepping back once more. Mercury took that as a sign to keep going. "After that, It was almost simple. We were the two most wanted people in the world, after Cinder. Not counting Salem, of course." That name again. Who was Salem, and why was she so important? "We had quite literally no allies but each other at that point. We had to avoid your little group just as much as we did Salem's."

"Vale was out, obviously," He said. "It was overrun by Grimm, and the few spots where it wasn't were filled to the brim with refugees and Huntsmen. We'd be found out in a day. Atlas should be obvious. Neither of us were prepared properly for Vacuo, and we knew Mistral would be next on Cinder's list, and even if it wasn't it was too corrupt. We'd be sold out in a heartbeat."

"That eliminated all of the major kingdoms. So, I thought, why not the one place that was technically a part of two kingdoms? It was supposed to be the perfect choice," Mercury said. "Argus was big enough to get lost in, but not big enough to have a serious criminal presence. Both Mistral and Atlas being in charge of security would hopefully make it harder for them to coordinate. It was out of the way, too. No one was supposed to have a reason to come to Atas, not for a while at least."

He scowled. "Which raises the question, why are you here? You know Vacuo is supposed to be next on Cinder's agenda, right?"

Jaune's eyes widened in surprise. Evidently, he did not know that. "It doesn't matter," He said evasively. "What matters is that we're going to Atas. And we're not the ones answering questions. Keep going."

Mercury shrugged. "Suit yourself. We made it Argus, eventually. Things were a little rough to begin with. But I think Em is a bit better suited to tell this part, considering it was her plan that kickstarted everything that comes next."

Emerald nodded. Saphron noticed she was much more composed than she was earlier. Mercury must have taken over to give her time to calm her nerves. "Like he said, it was hard at first," She began. "Not long after we arrived, we got into contact with a local fence. No one important, in the grand scheme of things."

She laughed bitterly. "At least, she wasn't supposed to be. Her name was Jadis. We lived out in an abandoned apartment building at the time. We'd rob a few small stores, pick some pockets, sell what we could to her. It was awful," She said with disgust. "I lived that life before. Living on the streets like that. I hated every second of it."

"One day…one day, I got sick of it." She said, "Jadis gave me a job she knew wouldn't amount to anything, and I humiliated myself in the process. That was the last straw. I couldn't take it anymore. Leaving Cinder was supposed to be a fresh start, not…not just going back to the way things were before."

"So…I came up with a plan. The Argus Limited." Saphron's eyes widened in recognition, but Terra spoke first.

"You're the one who came up with the plan to kidnap me?" Terra asked in wonder. "Huh. I always figured it was Mercury."

"Coerced," Mercury reminded her.

Emerald ignored him. "Yeah. That was me. Back then, all we knew was that the Argus Limited usually brought a decently sized amount of dust into the city. The plan was to skim off the top, steal as much as we could without drawing attention to the fact that some was missing, and sell it to Jadis. To do that, we needed a manifest to know how much would be on the train, and when it would arrive, and to get that, we needed-"

"-Someone with access," Terra finished. "Which is where I came in."

Emerald nodded. "You were a good fit. You had a family we could use as hostages, and high enough authority to get a copy of the manifest. You two know how it went after that. I assume you told Jaune and his friends as well."

"She did," Jaune confirmed. "But why? You had a plan, why would you risk living with them? It doesn't make any sense."

"Because I wanted something more than that!" Emerald snapped. "Haven't you been listening? I was sick of it. Sick of running and hiding, and living like dirt. I wanted…I wanted to be normal for once. If only for a little while."

She gulped. "It was supposed to be temporary. I told myself it was temporary. And it was, at first. It was only supposed to last until the train came into town. But the train kept getting delayed, and we spent more and more time with the Cotta-Arc's, until all of a sudden It wasn't temporary. We weren't counting down the days until we could leave, we were counting them down until we had to leave."

Her voice dropped a little lower, almost to a whisper now. "And then I didn't want to leave anymore. Mercury didn't either. We were happy living here. For the first time in both of our lives, we actually had somewhere to live. Somewhere we belonged, even if it was a lie."

"Then…then Jadis became a problem." She said.

Jaune frowned. "How? Didn't you say she was nobody?"

"She was, pretty much," Emerald agreed. "But she had one advantage. She knew who we were. Recognized us the first time we met, and kept our secret because she figured she could make more money that way. And obviously, we were trying to keep a low profile."

"So what finally happened, then?" He asked. "What went wrong?"

Emerald scowled. "Jadis got too greedy. We never really trusted her to begin with, but we figured we could at least work with her. Trust her to realize cooperating would bring the best outcome for all of us. That was a mistake, to say the least."

"It was…a lot of stuff, really, all piling on top of one another," She said. "She would call, again and again demanding more information, even after we told her she wouldn't get any. She'd threaten to pull out of the deal, to refuse to buy from us or even sell us out. She put a tail on Mercury."

"Then…" She shared a nervous look with Mercury, who nodded reassuringly. "Then last night happened."

Saphron's eyes widened in realization. "Those…those weren't just random thieves, were they?"

Emerald shook her head. "They were sent by Jadis, to try and retrieve the manifest. That was the last straw for us. We had put up with so much since leaving Salem, even since Beacon, but that was it. They attacked your home. Brought you all into something you had no business being in. Broke into the one place on this planet we were actually welcome."

"Emerald?" Terra asked quietly. "Where did you two go last night? What did you mean when you said you handled it?"

Mercury snorted. "Come on, Terra, I know you're smarter than that. What do you think we did? Jadis is dead." Emerald and Terra both flinched at his bluntness. "The few of her lackeys dumb enough to stay with her joined her, and the rest ran off. And I can tell you for a fact not one of them will so much as look at this house again."

Saphron's mouth opened and closed without a sound passing her lips. They killed them, she thought. They killed them, because they threatened us. People had died last night because of her and Terra.

"We decided we were done with the Argus Limited after that," Emerald spoke up, breaking the silence. "I was sick of it. From step one, it brought us nothing but trouble, and I was tired of living like dirt. I…I wanted a chance at a normal life. One where we wouldn't have to worry about walking around in public. And I thought, maybe, we had a chance here."

She took a deep breath. "That's pretty much everything. We thought…we were worried Saphron and Terra might find out it was our fault somehow. Which doesn't make much sense in hindsight, but we weren't really thinking straight. We tidied up around the house a bit, and settled on sticking it out here, and hoping for the best."

"Then all of you showed up," Mercury gestured towards Jaune and his friends. "And you know the rest."

There. She had it, now. The full, horrible truth she had wanted. Jaune was right. They were murderers. They helped cause the fall of Beacon, and the brothers only knew what else. They were as dangerous as Jaune claimed, and probably even more than he knew.

But…if they were telling the truth, and she was pretty sure they were, they also tried to get out. Sure, they lied to her and Terra at first, told them they would forget about the Argus Limited. But by the end of their story, it was clear they just wanted to wash their hands of the whole affair. They genuinely wanted to take their offer. Even if Mercury and Emerald were the reason the thieves broke in, they still saved her and Terra.

And honestly, it didn't sound like they ever had much of a choice. They did, of course, she knew that and she was certain they did as well. But her heart broke for them. For Emerald. For Mercury. Who wouldn't be bitter after what they went through?

Only, none of that excused what they did. It didn't erase it. Saphron thought that by bringing them back, and getting the full story out of them, they might finally have some answers, and everything would make sense. That she could definitively say who was right or wrong. But she couldn't. The facts were all laid out before them, and all it did was make things even more confusing!

Not for Jaune, though. He scoffed in disbelief. "That's it? Really? That's everything?"

Emerald nodded glumly, and Jaune scowled. "The only reason you left Salem was because you were scared. Otherwise, you would have been more than content with letting the rest of humanity die off. I doubt you even felt guilty about the fall! How do we know you're even telling the truth?"

"To be fair, what they've said lines up with what we know so far," Ren offered. "And they also weren't at Haven."

"So what?" Jaune yelled. "Even if they are telling the truth, what then? Are we supposed to just ignore them?" He turned to Mercury and Emerald. "What did you two expect? That you could come to Argus, and just live a normal life after Beacon? That you deserve one, after what you did? Pyrrha never got a normal life! I'll never have a normal life, because the two of you destroyed it!"

Emerald recoiled from the force of his words, backing away in fear. Mercury's eyes narrowed, and he shifted ever so slightly, preparing to jump in front of her if he had to.

"I think," Terra said very lightly. "That we have everything we need to know, now. Arguing isn't going to get anything done. We need to figure out what we're going to do about…" She gestured towards Mercury and Emerald. "...Everything. Obviously, something's going to have to be done."

"I'm not letting Emerald go to jail," Mercury said. "And neither am I. We didn't go through all that effort to trade one prison for another."

"Like you have a say in the matter!" Jaune snarled.

"Jaune," Saphron hissed. "I think the two of us should speak. Privately."

He frowned "I am not leaving them alone with-"

"Nora and Ren will watch them," She said. "We need to have a chat."

"But-" Saphron cut him off, grabbing his arm and dragging him into her room. She let go, shutting the door and taking a deep breath.

"Alright," She said. "Let's talk."

Ugh. This week wasn't much better. Thankfully, things have been calmer the last couple days at least, and I managed to finish this week's writing. As of now, there are only five more chapters I have to write, maybe six depending how things go. It's fun, finally coming up to the finish line.

I already know what my next project is going to be, and no, unfortunately it won't be RWBY related. Although I do have a few ideas in that regard…

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Next Chapter: Tuesday, July 16th