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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly pulls Meg into her suite and shuts the door behind them. The living room has been set up for the First Official Meeting of the as-yet-untitled Milliways Newspaper Staff. Because Lilly's gotten most of her idea of journalism from old movies and haunting a journalism class, this means there's a laptop computer out, a notepad, two suspiciously sparkly press badges, and a bottle of whisky.

"So, Meg. Grab a seat, let's get started!"

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[balletrat]

*Meg drops onto the couch, obediently.*

- pass me the notepad? I feel like I should have a writerly thing to hang onto, *she says, earnestly.*

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly solemnly passes her the notebook.

"There you go. And meeting is called to order or whatever. Now, first things first: What are we going to name our newspaper?"

[balletrat]

*Meg considers this, pen dutifully set to paper.*

. . . something about the truth? Because we are obviously only going to write the scrupulous truth.

*She radiates innocence.*

[awesome_lilly]

The innocence coming from these two tiny blonde girls could power the Bar, if it weren't so obviously false.

"You say true, sai," Lilly replies, and pauses. "Hey, what about that? We could call it the Say True!"

[balletrat]

I like it, *Meg says happily, and writes the name down dutifully.*

It's got flair, you know?

[awesome_lilly]

"It does," Lilly agrees happily. "And if nothing else, our newspaper will totally have flair. Flair, interviews, exciting stories, gossip, all kinds of things!"

[balletrat]

And glitter, *Meg says, solemnly.* Always glitter.

[awesome_lilly]

"There will be a weekly column," Lilly replies. "For glitter and glitter alone."

"Oh! You know what else we'll have? Personal ads! And Classifieds! For people who want to meet people or sell off their mysterious diamond-crusted bottles of lube or whatever!"

[balletrat]

And if people won't write their own classifies, *Meg says, busily bent over her pad of paper as she scrawls this down,* then we can write them for them, bien sur. Public duty, and all. Right?

[awesome_lilly]

"Right!"

Lilly looks almost noble... almost.

"We are but public servants, deep down. I mean, we're really doing this newspaper for everyone's good, after all."

[balletrat]

And with great responsibility, *Mge agrees, charmingly,* comes great power.

*- look, the quote's from fifty years after her time, she's allowed to get it wrong. . .*

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly grins.

"Power that we will never, ever abuse, of course."

[balletrat]

Of course not! *Meg agrees.

She's about two seconds away from batting her eyelashes.*

- you know, we should have an advice column. So we can share our wisdom directly.

[awesome_lilly]

"We totally should!"

Lilly beams.

"Our combined wisdom could help so many people."

Or give them really bad headaches. Whatever.