Private to the Admiral

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Comrade, in the factory, we had these... tiny blocks, tiny plastic coloured blocks, and they all fit together, to make towers and streets and cities...

I would like to construct many things from these blocks. With Barron. It'll be a major warden/inmate project.

but I need lots and lots of blocks please.

[PREFECT IS PRETTY DRUNK AT THIS POINT. COME ON ADMIRAL, THIS MAN NEEDS LEGO.]



If Prefect were a tiny plastic lego man, he would have liked to live in the house he was currently building. It was small, (but not too small), a perfectly regular shade of grey (the exact colour that the corridors in the Factory were painted), it was the shape of a perfect cube, and best of all, it was in a prime location, at the foot of the waterfall which was currently flowing down the entire third floor staircase, in hundreds of immaculately placed blue plastic bricks.

Prefect placed the house down, and pushed it into the lego which made up the pavement of their growing empire, glancing up at the waterfall as he did so.

At some point, in the morning, someone was going to want to use those stairs. They should really make a boat, for that occasion.

Groping for one of the bottles of Gin which they were progressing through, he looked around for what Barron was doing, "Comrade? Comrade, I was just thinking--", his voice slurred slightly at the end there, "We should make some boats."

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[In lieu of an answer, have a rain of Legos. Until the room is filled waist-deep (at least) with Legos. ENJOY.]

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This is perfect. Thank you Admiral.

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Barron looked over at Prefect's little concrete cube. He was going to comment about how they didn't need any more foundations for the city, but it didn't seem out of place with all the other ones Prefect had made. Barron was seriously considering using them as a bridge foundation. How else was the community on the fifth step going to be connected with the rest of the civilization on the landing?

"We should make some boats." Barron agreed, drinking quite a bit straight from the bottle of gin he had with him. It made the lego blocks he was holding a bit sticky, but hey. It wasn't like they were building any more skyscrapers at the moment.

"We should make a harbor." Barron said, considering how long it would take. "You can sort out the blue blocks."

Sorting was the most boring part. Barron thought that Prefect might enjoy it.

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Prefect loved sorting the blocks! Scooping up two large handfuls of lego up from the pile, he began the process of meticulously colour coordinating them.

"Have you ever been to a harbor, Comrade?" He asked amicably, pausing in his sorting to take another swig of the gin, "They're like... all lines, and shipping containers, right?"

He looked to Barron for approval of this theory, he'd never actually seen a harbor, but he wanted to help make one.

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"Yes." Barron said, despite the fact that he couldn't remember if he'd ever been to a harbor. But Prefect's description sounded right enough, so Barron wasn't about to contradict him.

"You should make some fish too." Barron suggested. "They'd be the wrong size, but that way people would know what the harbor was."

He offered the bottle of gin to Prefect. He was looking too sober.

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"They would be," Prefect said, "Symbolic representations of many fish, which is why they'd be so large."

He accepted the gin, and took a long drink from it, before dragging his sleeve across his mouth and handing the bottle a little unsteadily back to Barron.

"Or whales, Comrade. They might be whales."

Blue, red, red, yellow, green, blue, blue, yellow, green.

"You should make a clock."

Suggested Prefect, still sorting the colours, though it was getting progressively more difficult a task.

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Barron just raised his eyebrows at the fish thing, before taking the bottle back. Who was he to crush Prefect's creative spirit?

"They could be whales." Barron agreed, mentally reclassing them as public artworks built by the people in the lego city.

"I should make a clocktower." Barron said, looking at one of the higher steps. "Are you wearing a watch?"

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Without objection, Prefect removed his watch and held it out to Barron, because obviously this was the very best thing which his watch could possibly go towards.

"I like the idea of public clocks, Comrade. Or a booming voice that could announce the time. We can not make a booming voice out of blocks."

Blue, blue, yellow, red, blue. That was it. The blocks were sorted. Prefect reached for the brown pile, and began making the lines which would create his harbor.

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Barron took it, quickly encasing it in a little hollow cube of lego so that the clock face was still visible.

"No, we can't. But the town can see it, right?" Barron started working on the body of the clock tower. His fingers were starting to hurt.

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Prefect made a few more lines of harbor, before beginning work on the shipping containers. He stole a brief, appraising glance towards the sacrificial watch, and decided that yes, this was exactly the right place for it.

"Comrade, you're really good at this. You should have been an architect, not a lawyer."

Pushing down his shipping containers, Prefect mentally went over what else their world would need. There were houses, a hospital, a bank, many, many shops and skyscrapers, there was clearly no unemployment in the land...

There should be, Prefect decided, a large public park with a Ferris wheel in it.

A working Ferris wheel.

He grabbed a new handful of blocks, and set about making this happen.

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"Yeah, well. That would have been my other choice." The was completely untrue, but Barron didn't even skip a beat as he stuck the clock tower near the town hall on one of the steps. The parts that he made were noticeably brighter in terms of their color scheme than Prefect's, but Barron liked to think that it gave the city a sense of variation.

"What are you doing next?" Barron asked, mainly because Prefect seemed more than a little bit excited about what he was making next.

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"I'm making a Ferris Wheel." Prefect replied, diligently constructing the frame for the wheel, "I think the citizens of this town need more options for their leisure time."

He gestured to a vague area, as of yet uninhabited, "I think they require a large area of parkland here, with a Ferris Wheel, and possibly a fountain."

He looked at Barron expectantly, waiting for Barron to begin work on the fountain.

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Barron looked around the city. Prefect was right. It needed more bars. Far more bars.

"Do it." Barron said, nodding seriously. "I'll make some rides."

Barron spent a moment seriously considering how one could construct a roller coaster and roller coaster track out of lego.