"To think about it, The Anti did say something true," Sveta comments. "We would have never imagined we wouldn't have gotten any money from it."

"So, the rumors are true," the presenter replies. "You've never seen any money for your work?"

Logar snorts. "Please," he drawls. "It's not like you get paid for causing a ruckus and pointing a rifle at civilians. We just didn't know it back then."

"Speaking of pointing a rifle at civilians," he adds fondly. "Where is Jonath? He was supposed to be here. He knows today it's the day, and I sent him a message on one of those online chats."

Logar feels inadequate for a minute. He's spent so many years poor, and the rest in prison, that he hasn't caught up with any new technology. However, his friends are pretty much the same way, and no one notices.

Sveta only jokes, "Maybe Jonath doesn't know how to read."

"Seriously," Logar looks pissed off. "Maybe I would laugh at that joke were it from another person, but not coming from you Sveta. And with 'maybe' I mean if somebody pointed a gun at my head and told me to laugh at that joke, or else they shoot."

"You'd rather get shot," Percie says. "You've always been that way with Jonath Cincinnati."

"And everyone knows too," Sveta adds. "Just last year, a magazine published a picture of you hanging around with him during one his visits in jail, and named you 'Hottest Couple of the Year'."

Logar suddenly starts looking agitated. "You can't say those things in front of him, you know that right? Please, nobody ever mentions it again when Jonath arrives."

"Oh my God," Sveta laughs. "I was making it up, and he bought it. Perce, he bought it!"

The presenter looks a little sorry at the way his transmission is going. "Well," the presenter clears his throat. "It was easy to laugh at him back then, he took everything too seriously. Or at least, this is something you used to say."

"Who said that?" Logar asks.

"Logar," Sveta says. "Someone is talking about you."

"Not Jonath Cincinnati or Ane Dioretsa," though, she adds. "Only Perce and I laughed at you. And Lix Aphophis did too, a little bit. But she wasn't a fan of laughing in general."

"I have said this in one of our first interviews," Percie says, and he looks a little red in the face. Is the presenter offering this quote to Logar as an excuse to pick a fight?

"What no one has never understood," Logar only comments. "Is that I've never taken myself seriously."

Judging from his face, he seems sincere, though Sveta has a hard time imagining it.

In that moment, an image appears on the screen with a loud pop.

The Sight of the World turns around, every one of them with a fond expression on their face. The presenter turns around, feeling very uncomfortable and slightly horrified.

Staring at them on the screen, with a big grin on his face, about 5'7 of long, lean limbs, a mischievious smile and a mass of white-blond hair, stands Jonath Cincinnati.

"I gather this is Jonath Cincinnati's way of saying he won't be here," the presenter says, disappointed.

"He actually asked me to pass a message along," Sveta replies. "That he'll be busy reading Logar's book today, all day. He tells me he's sure it's the best book out of all of them."

"Well," the presenter says quietly. "They're all good in their own way, and they're all evidence."