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Re: After Chaos
Reply #2210 - May 3rd, 2017, 11:14pm
 
Hondo: Lacey's place? I think that was the name of Macey's ma's whore house.
 
Tonya: then Macey was the obligation she got rid of.
 
Zoey had settled down again, though still far from the happy girl That made Hondo smile. He understood why but he wish he had the power to take away the hurt.... and bring back Valentine.
 
Hondo: Zoey, don't talk about this around Macey.
 
Zoey: why not?
 
Hondo: she has been through a lot too. I know she hurt you but I also know you don't want to hurt her back. Talking about this could hurt her, even if she pretended it didn't.
 
Zoey: ok.
 
Hondo: so, you think Horace and Geoffrey are still in what is now known as Slavia?  
 
Tonya: could be. If they find out we are alive they will come after us, though.
 
Zoey: you won't let them take us, will you?
 
Hondo: hell no! You are my girls! They won't take you back.
 
Tonya: just the same, we will have to be careful. Fight town was always strongly pro slavery. Taking someone else's slaves is the worst offense committed in fight town. Murder might get you kicked out of town by theOr so called law men but taking or trying to fee someone else's slaves is punishable by death.
 
Hondo: I have adoption papers on you two.
 
Tonya: that will not matter to them. We are slaves first and fore most. If either of those two come to fight town and sees us they will call claim on us and you will be seen as to be breaking the law.
 
Hondo: why hasn't someone taken these assholes down a notch yet?
 
Tonya: i only know if one group powerful enough to take them down who would.
 
Hondo: don't tell me, the Texas spirits.
 
Tonya: no. I doubt they could, besides too many spirit factions like fight town and other towns like it. The Texas spirits have their heads up their asses too far anyway. Any place they have came in and rebuilt they then force the people there to live as they expect them to live, no freedoms except those deemed good by the spirit council. I hate even referring to them as spirits. They are just pompous, self righteous aliens who seem to think they are the only ones who have life figured out. They think they are the top of the food chain. We all live by their grace alone! I can understand slave owners better than I can these hypocrites.
 
Hondo: well, no guess how you feel about that subject. So if not them, who?
 
Tonya: there are other groups that could but they don't have the morals to do so. Most work for the highest bidder. Not these folks. They fight for true freedom and actually care about those they help and they travel the world facing incredible odds.
 
Hondo: drum roll?
 
Tonya: funny dad, but seriously they are awesome.
 
Hondo: who?
 
Tonya: the sackett clan and the time lord!
 
Hondo: time lord?
 
Tonya: yeah. They say he and the leader of the clan, H. I. Sackett are almost like brothers. H.I. Supposedly can time travel and stuff like the time lord can too! They say the time lord was an EMT in the state that used to be known as New York but he and the sackett a moved to Wyoming after the happening.
 
Hondo: I have heard of this group but it seems like they aren't know down south.
 
Tonya: who said that?
 
Hondo: I was told the Texas spirits haven't heard of them.
 
Tonya: That sounds like shit to me. Of course their leaders may keep that knowledge from their people. I have heard there are underground factions there that would like to oust the spirits from running Charlton as they believe in freedom or religion and are only allowed to practice Judaism there.
 
Hondo: so you think they don't want someone asking for the Sackett clans help to free them?
 
Tonya: yeah.
 
Hondo: if these folks were so great why haven't they done something about all this yet?
 
Tonya: takes time Maybe? I'm sure after the happening it took time for them to stablaize their own people before they could help others and there is a lot to do.
 
Hondo: but if this sackett and time lord can travel through time why can't they change it?  
 
Tonya: you said ma was captured by the pirates called the grey wardens, right?
 
Hondo: that's what I was told by the messengers.  
 
Tonya: the story on them is that the woman who runs it used to know the time lord and H.I. Supposedly she was the mechanic /inventor/fabricator for a private pacifistic rescue group.  
 
Hondo: yeah, earlier you said her crew was killed off during the happening and she went mad.
 
Tonya: yeah. She also supposedly used the time lords time travel equipment and tried to fix the event. I guess she messed it up pretty bad. The stories say that only their past selves can save their time line. Some say they can split it and create two realities at that point. Some say that they must destroy our reality to fix their own.  
 
Hondo: probably doesn't endear them to anyone.
 
Tonya: I think that's just a myth, but they are real. I remember praying to God for nights on end after I was captured begging him to send H.I., his wife Maria, and the time lord to come save me. I stopped praying for that the night Horace killed that girl in front of me. My mother used to say God cared for us even though we weren't human, but Horace always said God doesn't answer the prayers of dirty Wesson. He said we were soulless abominations. He might have been right. God never answered my prays so he must have been right.
 
Hondo: you two are not soulless or abominations. Also, what about me and Val? Sometimes God doesn't answer us how we expected but you were rescued. Maybe not when you wanted.
 
Tonya: or by whom I asked for... sorry dad. I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I just don't see how God could allow us to go through so much if he was listening. I'm glad it was you guys that found us, I just.... if he was listening why was nothing like how I asked for?
 
Hondo: you'd be surprised how much you asked for happened.
 
Tonya: huh?
 
Hondo: we will talk later more about that. We need to probably talk to Fernando here though. We have a lot of plans to go over.  
 
For a while there Hondo was lost in the tale of his new daughters past but now his thoughts turned back to Valentine. He had other things to ask Tonya about fight town, Wesson, mutants, and the like but they would have time while on the road. Now they needed to figured how to proceed. What dangers awaited the ahead? Where was Valentine? Who had her and why did they take her? So many question and so little time to answer them.
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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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Reply #2211 - May 4th, 2017, 11:46am
 
"I know." Moro says. "I can't do any moving until after the meeting. At the meeting I will talk to General Jastrey about Jade."
 
After hearing what she will need, Jade lists all of her earthly possessions. "I have two more changes of clothing, one of them is a winter dress, a pair of winter boots, a coat, one night gown, a hair brush, wing brush, a soup bowl and a lighter that I use as a flashlight."
 
"Is that all? Do you have a toothbrush?" Moro asks.
 
"That's it. I don't have a toothbrush."
 
"All of your stuff is in the abandoned building?" Moro wanted to pay a visit to this abandoned building anyhow.
 
"Yes."
 
Moro turns to Fernando. "Is it safe for Jade to travel into town, to get her stuff, or should we use our transporting technology?"
 
Confession is good for the soul, as they say, but Moro did not want to say it in front of Jade. Fernando is right, Moro is prejudice in favor of the Haibane people.
 
"The gas Camper has extra bedding, toothbrushes and some of the other things you mentioned." Moro continues. "You said we need a mess kit. Jade happens to have a soup bowl. Are we already low on things like that?"
 
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Which vehicle is best to transport Jade while she is recovering?
 
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Reply #2212 - May 4th, 2017, 12:07pm
 
Note (Hopefully posted before yours):
 
Though as a former military base, it has many building, such a resettled town would have reclaimed as many buildings as possible. The only abandoned building(s) would be the old train station and abandoned way/storage warehouses there, where troops and cargo/weapons would be sent in by rail. It would be a small part of town but it has its secrets and underground facilities as any former military base would.
 
The days of this abandoned area is numbered because the other outside town is finishing up rebuilding their railway connection to this town (posted: http://www.hondosackett.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1428938728/1869#1869 ). To complete the connection would take another week, but reclaim and rebuild the former station can take months though in the beginning minor use during the build can be done. For the town that is more to celebrate as now they have highway, rail and zeppelin ports to connect to other towns and rebuild from there.
 
Bad news is: for those Jade is taking about – once the connection is made they are going to be chased out of the area and have no place to go if they can not fit into society for one reason or excuse or another. This is what Moro is going to discover.
 
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It will be literally a city within a city (like the run-aways of Penn Station and Grand Central Station tunnels before they were flushed out years ago. The same applies to Lithuanian tunnels in the 1990s-2000s and the Romanian Bucerus tunnels today). There may be a leader or not, but most definitely things are determined by strongest is the fittest. (To bad you posted before I could. Because...) In her absence, someone could try to take her things if somebody else is not watching them for her.
 
There will be more underground tunnels and facilities to this “building” than above ground. Above ground it would be about three stories tall, shorter than the hangers where business is done on the main road, and some floors may have collapsed onto the lower one – making it a very dangerous place to walk around on without taking precautions and care to tread lightly. Any nearby buildings would be in the same condition.
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Reply #2213 - May 4th, 2017, 12:28pm
 
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Well done, Hondo. One thing I do want to point out is, the Texas Spirits believe that their attempt to stop or at least soften the Happening actually made matters worse in the long run. Moro mentioned this.
 
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Reply #2214 - May 4th, 2017, 12:54pm
 
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“If you are taking her with you, it would be better to teleport and not have the girl be seen. If people were attacking her as her injuries suggests, they will attack her again, and they will attack you for being with her.” Fernando explains. He continues, “It is not a shortage of things or supplies that we or... Jade... need to concern ourselves about, it is that we are relying too much on Hondo, his camper and his things like cups and plates, and supplies. As for supplies, I’m trying to shift things around with everyone bringing in supplies to put together for a group meal. It is still his cups and plates that are being lent out during the meal, and things happen, and his things can get damaged or broken and that I do not want. A soup bowl would be great but she is going to need more. For $5 or less you can get a simple mess for her at Jerry’s camping store. In the least it will teach her responsibility to take care of her things as if your mess kit is dirty, you will not be served food.”

 
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Any of the larger vehicles with better shock absorbers would be best for Jade to be transported on: Karl’s SUV, Ruth/Joanna’s Camper, Hondo’s Truck/Camper, or Moro’s Truck. Of these Moro’s truck would be the best option or all. Reason being: Hondo’s Truck/Camper and Moro’s Truck would have the best suspension. But Hondo has his family in his camper, not that it should be a problem but they are dealing with their own situation to take care of and this would only add to the situation they already have. Moro’s truck is empty and she can take better care of Jade directly. Since it is “double cab” Jade can sleep comfortably in the back seat of Moro’s truck during the trip.
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Reply #2215 - May 4th, 2017, 2:01pm
 
Note:
 
In the time spent since the group has been doing its thing, other events are happening in town. Days ago it was mentioned that the Town to the south was finishing up their rebuild of their railroad connection. This is the second town (200 miles away), not the hidden lab town (first town), that has been doing this. With the railroad rebuild completed, trains can start rolling between the two towns.
 
Quote from Fernando on Jan 1st, 2017, 3:37pm:
Several miles south of town, several High Speed/High Powered Speeders line the train tracks. Several people get out and do work on the rails, cleaning up accumulated crap from the rail beds that covers the rails and can derail a trail.

 




 
Quote from Fernando on Jan 1st, 2017, 3:37pm:
With this part of the track clear, they are finally able to ride into town, connecting the next southern town with the north.


 
Quote from Fernando on Jan 1st, 2017, 3:37pm:

 
But again, the railroad connection has been completed, not the rebuild of the train station itself, which is still abandoned... for now.
 
A rail train does come into town from the north but it rarely stops by and it goes onto a different path to the South-East as mentioned on the post of the convoy ride way to this town. This North-South track will now add to this line and have a station for both lines to stop once it is rebuilt in stages: within a few weeks, a basic station for trains to pick up cargo and passengers on the outside of the station; within a few months, rebuild of the main station with several tracks separating cargo and passenger loading areas; within a year, a second large market area with the surrounding buildings for business, factories and residences. This will increase the size of this town considerably and the connected towns will benefit from the added options this town will have.
 
But for Jade and her friends, their days are now numbered as they hide and reside in the building(s) of this abandoned area.
 


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As Fernando and Moro discuss the options, the town siren alarm sounds off loudly, but yet a strange cheer can be heard coming from the town instead of orders to prepare for battle or disaster over the public address system. They both wonder that this can be.
 
Within several minutes General Jastrey arrives with great news, “The Southern Train Line Has Been Reestablished! Now we can rebuild our Train Station!”
 
The look on Jade’s face says it all – awe and fear, that of a home owner finding out he is about to lose their home because a highway is going to run right through it.
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Re: After Chaos
Reply #2216 - May 4th, 2017, 10:23pm
 
Quote from Jeanette on May 4th, 2017, 12:28pm:
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Well done, Hondo. One thing I do want to point out is, the Texas Spirits believe that their attempt to stop or at least soften the Happening actually made matters worse in the long run. Moro mentioned this.

Jeanette Isabelle

 
 
Thanks.
 
About the spirits, understand this:
 
The spirits, all of them are not looked at fondly in this area, that has been established. Fight town might like/fear some of the ones we considered bad and hate the Texas sports as they are " goodie goodies".  Even so, know that you can't win them all. Let me explain that. You probably know the saying, "with great power comes great responsibility." It also comes with little to no friends. If you use great power right some people will
Love you and some will hate you and the next day some that loved you the day before will now hate you and vice versa. With power you have a better chance making people who like you hate you and have a very slim chance of ever making those who hate you love you. The spirits know that helping in the way some people want will hurt them. It would be like you having time travel powers and knowing people that had family die in the atom bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These people would want you to stop the bomb drops. Having these powers you can see that if you stop it Japan gains allies, America falls after years of fighting and millions maybe billions die from war, sickness, starvation, communism, whatever. So you see the bombs must drop and those who died must die to save millions of others, stop the blood shed, and restore peace and prosperity. You would be hated by many, even if you explained it as people are generally short sighted and emotional. They want their family saved. The rest of the world can go to hell as far as they see it. They don't realize by saving a few they are ultimately destroyed. It's partly why I'm doing the sackett clan and time lord like I am. If they messed in what we are doing we couldn't do it. Having the power to do something and do it right reqires the wisdom of when not to do something too. Jeanette, Fernando, and Hondo will help people along the way. Since they are from the past their present selves, if still Alive, would know what to stay out of to not Clash with their past selves activities in the present. Some of the folks will be unhappy at them for not helping when they think they should but they can't see the big picture.
 
Sometimes to be the hero the people need you must be perceived either as a villain or and uncaring asshole. This is why Hondo and Fernando are the way they are at times as they understand this all too well.
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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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Re: After Chaos
Reply #2217 - May 5th, 2017, 12:34am
 
Quote from Hondo I. Sackett on May 4th, 2017, 10:23pm:
Quote from Jeanette on May 4th, 2017, 12:28pm:
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Well done, Hondo. One thing I do want to point out is, the Texas Spirits believe that their attempt to stop or at least soften the Happening actually made matters worse in the long run. Moro mentioned this.

Jeanette Isabelle



Thanks.

About the spirits, understand this:

The spirits, all of them are not looked at fondly in this area, that has been established. Fight town might like/fear some of the ones we considered bad and hate the Texas sports as they are " goodie goodies".  Even so, know that you can't win them all. Let me explain that. You probably know the saying, "with great power comes great responsibility." It also comes with little to no friends. If you use great power right some people will
Love you and some will hate you and the next day some that loved you the day before will now hate you and vice versa. With power you have a better chance making people who like you hate you and have a very slim chance of ever making those who hate you love you. The spirits know that helping in the way some people want will hurt them. It would be like you having time travel powers and knowing people that had family die in the atom bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These people would want you to stop the bomb drops. Having these powers you can see that if you stop it Japan gains allies, America falls after years of fighting and millions maybe billions die from war, sickness, starvation, communism, whatever. So you see the bombs must drop and those who died must die to save millions of others, stop the blood shed, and restore peace and prosperity. You would be hated by many, even if you explained it as people are generally short sighted and emotional. They want their family saved. The rest of the world can go to hell as far as they see it. They don't realize by saving a few they are ultimately destroyed. It's partly why I'm doing the sackett clan and time lord like I am. If they messed in what we are doing we couldn't do it. Having the power to do something and do it right reqires the wisdom of when not to do something too. Jeanette, Fernando, and Hondo will help people along the way. Since they are from the past their present selves, if still Alive, would know what to stay out of to not Clash with their past selves activities in the present. Some of the folks will be unhappy at them for not helping when they think they should but they can't see the big picture.

Sometimes to be the hero the people need you must be perceived either as a villain or and uncaring asshole. This is why Hondo and Fernando are the way they are at times as they understand this all too well.

 
I tried to state this only to have it lost in a crash.
 
People have dealt with Spirits in one form or another since the Happening and even before. The Texas Spirits have their niche in Texas, Japan, and Israel- according to what is posted. But there are other spirits as well, that is a given. Some spirits are good to humans, others are bad, and even others are out there to corrupt humans to have it their way. That's also a given.
 
Thus many towns have had such experiences, good and bad, and a majority of them decided that they would do better of without them. They do not care what the spirits have to offer because they think that every gift has a price to pay. This town in particular has had a bad experience with spirits, probably similar to that first town Hondo ran into where those spirits corrupted the town's people until unlike the first town, they were able to break free from their influence years ago. So anything involving spirits, they do not want to deal with it.
 
This is an image problem that all the spirits have to deal with, including the Texas Spirits.
 
Except in the notes, the only character that Moro and the Spirits talked too about the Spirits is Fernando. No one else was spoken to about it in character.
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Reply #2218 - May 5th, 2017, 9:03am
 
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My previous note on the subject is in reference to this:
 
Quote from Hondo I. Sackett on May 3rd, 2017, 11:14pm:
Tonya: yeah. She also supposedly used the time lords time travel equipment and tried to fix the event. I guess she messed it up pretty bad.

If the Texas Spirits believe that their attempt to stop or at least soften the Happening made things worse, why is she blaming herself?
 
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Reply #2219 - May 5th, 2017, 12:00pm
 
"I'm sorry for having to rush things." Moro says to Jade. "We need to leave this town in a few hours and there is a lot that we need to do between now and then." Moro retrieves her mobile device. "Where is this abandoned building you were living in?"
 
"It's the old train station." Jade answers.
 
Moro looks at Fernando. "Please excuse us. Jade and I have things to do." Moro speaks into the mobile device. "This is Moro. Transport Jade, the little girl with me, and I to this town's old train station."
 
After locating the place and a spot for them to be transported to, Moro and Jade disappear to the front of the old train station.
 
"What is your name?" Jade asks.
 
"Moro. I was named after the wolf deity."
 
"Wolf deity?"
 
"She's probably just another Spirit, assuming this other Moro does exist. You said you don't know if your parents are alive or not."
 
"If they are alive, I don't know where they are." Jade finishes.
 
"You must know something."
 
Jade shakes her head. "I was walking along a gravel road, the moon was the only light I could see. The cold wind was blowing against me. I heard something approaching. The next thing I remember is waking up on the floor of a dirty room."
 
"Did you simply have a nightmare and rolled out of bed?" Moro asks.
 
"There wasn't a bed in that room. I did not know where I was. Kim found me on the floor."
 
"So this dirty room was in this old train station?" Moro asks.
 
"Yes."
 
"Do you know how you got here?"
 
"No."
 
It sounds like a crime took place; Moro does not want to put blame where it does not belong. "You said Kim found you on the floor. Was anyone else around?"
 
"Yes, Aurora."
 
"Who's Aurora?"
 
"She's a human girl my age. Kim, Aurora and I slept in the same bed until Kim disappeared. Now only Aurora and I sleep in the bed."
 
"You said you did not know where you were. Before waking up in the train station, did you live somewhere else in this town?"
 
"No. I didn't recognize this town either."
 
"Have you left this town since you got here?"
 
"No."
 
"Were both of your parents ordinary humans?" Moro continues.
 
"Yes. How did you know?"
 
"Call it an educated guess. We strive to learn all we can about mutations. Sometimes mutations can be passed down from parent to child. Another thing you said is you don't know where your parents are, assuming they are alive. Do you remember where you were living before?"
 
"No. It was just a regular town with a river in the middle of it, not old and run down like this one and it did not get as cold as this one. It's like this town is high up in the sky."
 
"Well," Moro says, "we are in a mountainous region right now."
 
"I wonder if the town I used to live in still exists."
 
They walk in the train station and in the main room. In the main room is a long table, a bed, a rug and a kerosene heater. On the table is a single candle. The only cheer is the images painted on the walls.
 
Eleven people were already in the room, ten of them were children and they were younger than Jade. One of the children is Wesen. No one seemed to pay attention to Moro. The children were eating the only thing they had to eat: cooked carrots.
 
Moro could hear what sounded like other people in a different area of the train station.
 
Moro follows as Jade goes to the room where she and Aurora sleep. In it is a bed and a round table with four chairs.
 
Jade goes to a dress and a pair of panties she has hang drying. She takes those down and puts them in a brown paper bag. She gets out her winter dress, her other pair of panties and the only pair of socks that she owns and puts them in the bag. Her Zippo lighter is there but her bowl isn't. "My bowl is gone. It's not here."
 
"Do things disappear often around here?" Moro asks.
 
"Nobody stole it, if that's what you mean. We respect each other's property around here and only take things after a person runs away or disappears forever. Something else happened to it but I don't know what." Jade puts her lighter and wing brush in the bag. She grabs a hair brush that looks as if it needs to be discarded.
 
As a tree hugger, Moro can appreciate not throwing things away. At times something can get so used that it would be best to burn it. "Does that hair brush hold special meaning to you?"
 
"No."
 
"Then leave it here. I can get you a better hair brush." Moro makes a note to get another hair brush today.
 
Jade leaves the hair brush out.
 
"Let me see that wing brush?"
 
Jade takes the wing brush back out and hands it to Moro. Moro examines it. It's in good shape. She hands it back to Jade and Jade puts it back in the bag.
 
"How is it that you only got to sleep with only one other person?" Moro inquires.
 
"This place is divided into three sections. The younger children stay in the other room you just saw. The older guys are in another part even though some of the older girls stay with them." Jade answers.
 
"I saw one adult woman in the main room."
 
"She helps to take care of the younger children. The older boys, and girls, in the other section do what they can to help the younger children." Jade hands her coat to Moro.
 
Moro holds it.
 
Jade picks up the paper bag and boots.
 
With her free hand, Moro retrieves her mobile device. "This is Moro. Transport Jade and I back to camp."
 
Moro and Jade are back to where they started, in front of Karl's SUV.
 
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