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Here are my drabbles for episodes 5 and 6. It took a little long cause I couldn't decided how to do the Hughes drabble. Ah well, I like how it came out.

Previous drabbles: here

Episode 5 – Hughes
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The Married Life
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Maes Hughes leaned back in his chair, imagining a lonely hormone-driven woman mad with lust just waiting for him to get off this damn slow train. Wives were fantastic. Roy needed to get himself one.

“She’s like this angel that descended to Earth and—”

Click.

“It cut me off again? I can’t get anything done with these damn phones giving me problems.”

“You’re the damn problem!”

Farman. Party-pooper. Good shot, but the poor man had a stick up his ass. He needed a wife too.

Click. Now came the fun part.

“So, Roy, what if the baby’s born tomorrow?”

Episode 6 – Tucker
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Life Study
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Shou Tucker could not stop staring at the younger one's armor. There was something off about the way the voice echoed through it, as if it had all the time to bounce around inside before drifting out the mouthpiece.

“You have a wonderful home, Mr. Tucker. We’re grateful you’ve agreed to let us study with you.”

No— sound didn’t drift out of the helmet so much as hang in the air around it. Fascinating.

“I am glad to have visitors.” What’d this boy do to his voice to make it project like that permanently?

“We’re eager to learn.”

Human alchemy?

Interesting.

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