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-- "Karnaca Gazette" fragment. it says: "CLOCKWORK MANSION SEALED BY THE DUKE" "The Jindosh Estate, known to many as the Clockwork Mansion, has been seized to serve Empress Delilah Copperspoon as confirmed by a new statement by the Grand Palace. This proclamation includes revised rules to property seizures, which will no longer require prior notice or approval. The Upper Aventa Quarter is subject to additional security measures, effective immediately. The rail car has been rendered inoperational until any unconfirmed reopening of Jindosh Clockworks." (this part of the text is hidden by the next panel) -- Corvo: Is this what you took the skiff for? Meagan: Not exactly. But as a good captain i should keep my passengers up with the news. -- Sokolov: Far more resistant than I expected of you, Meagan.ALT
-- Kirin: Morning. -- Kirin: There's something I want to dis- Meagan: Same. Check this out. Kirin (reading the newspaper): Wait - // What?! // Confiscated by the Duke?! // ... -- Kirin: All of my soldiers... Meagan: Or what's left of them. Kirin: Don't add insult to injury.ALT
-- Kirin: This moron! He would've had his throat slit years ago if not for my clockworks! // Traitors! // How dare he use my attainments like that! -- Kirin: First Corvo breaks in unnoticed- wreaks havoc throughout my home, I get kidnapped! And instead of searching for me I'm discarded like some kind of a tool. // Humiliating...Do they think that was all I was worth? // Whatever. Delilah can make fun of me all she wants, but we'll see who laughs last. -- Meagan: What do you mean "make fun of you"? You talked to her? Kirin: Yes. Through a dream. Each day our Empress surprises us with a new power. -- this isnt text in the comic Kirin tries to take a grag from his vape finger. there is none (likely because they were lost during him being "transferred" to the wale) and he looks semi-surprised !NO VAPING ON THE WALE!ALT
-- Sokolov: Perhaps if your pride aside, Kirin, you'd see the real danger Delilah poses for everyone. Including you. -- Corvo: How does destroying the lenses help bring down Delilah? Kirin: If flawed, Delilah will no longer influence the Abbey, and Breanna's connection to the void will be lost. -- Kirin: If i make flawed lenses - And you'll switch them out - Breanna won't die, but she'll become powerless. - To her, it will be worse than death! ALT
-- Sokolov: I hope I won't have to complain to Meagan once they're back. // But I'm surprised to sit beside you again, Kirin. // Almost as colleagues, almost voluntarily. -- Kirin: You've recovered swiftly. // Remarkable, given the strength of my machine...and your age. -- Sokolov: None of your elaborate machinery could ever cause more anguish to me, than I do. // I'm sure you're grateful I convinced Corvo not to strap you to it, though I'm not holding my breath for your thanks. // Who knows what would remain of the Grand Inventor, had he fallen victim to his own creation.ALT
-- Kirin: Oh, get off your high horse! // Who knows what I'd have created, had I remain in the Academy. // You stand *no* chance against *any* of you machines! // What is you stepped in a wall of light, has it malfunction? // Do I idly bring up tossing your frail body into an arc pylon? No! -- Sokolov: We both know the price of progress in paid in blood. Which means we have to sacrifice our own, too. // We may hold resentment towards each other all we want, but only our collaborative effort will result in victory.ALT
-- Kirin: Did you prepare this speech? Sokolov: Merely recalled what Piero Joplin ranted at me back in the time I was forced to call a dog cage on the outskirts of Dunwall home. Kirin: You what? -- Sokolov: Hardly my proudest moment. Though, for better or for worse, nit my lowest, either. // Whether you like it or not, your legacy will mirror mine: an uncommon genius, both to shape the Empire. Gilded by the right hands, you could have saved lives. -- Sokolov: But you / like me // You're a little better than a weapon. // Or, who knows, your clockworks will remain as a decoration in corvo's quarters. Kirin: Wh- No?? Sokolov: I thought you've seen it. Kirin: I haven't been to his room. "Yet." - is implied to be said by both of them.ALT
-- Sokolov: Corvo adds a new item to his little collection after each visit to the land. -- Sokolov: Although it's his writing that interests me most. // For a man of so few words, his journal entries are very entertaining. -- Sokolov: The rule everyone aboard the Wale should know: Keep your secrets to yourself or consider them public domain. -- "Later..." Kirin is begrudging at Corvo; words aren't specified. Corvo: I love me a good souvenir.ALT

“Jindosh lives and gets to stay on the Dreadful Wale AU” for @yourfavouritedoll for the @dishonoredgiftexchange :D
it was fun exploring how his rship with the rest of the Wale crew would work, i hope you like it! :) <3

thank you (once again :“D) to the wonderful @presiding for helping me with the dialogue!
the text version is in the image description/ALT.