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[The video feed starts and at first you see a wall, then the camera moved until it is focused on Draco Malfoy. Hair combed into place and his appearance neat. Though out of the camera's view is a different story...

Draco looks a bit uncomfortable but puts on a good front, smiling. The camera isn't all that steady as he holds it at first. He's not used to this.]

Hello populace of Riverview. I am Draco Malfoy and I have recently accepted the position of Community Ambassador. As such I wanted to greet all fo you, and was informed this was the best way to do so.

[Time to make yourself seem more approachable now, Draco...]

Forgive me if this isn't the best use of this means of communication, I am still learning. I will look to you all for guidance in the coming days as I learn about our city. It is my goal to help all new arrivals as well as everyone in residence currently. I want to see our economy grow and our new home prosper.

Please, do not hesitate to introduce yourself to me. Also, please come to me with any concerns or issues you may have. I will endeavor to try and help you either myself, or at least get you in contact with those who can. I look forward to working with you all.

[Another smile appeared on his lips, seemingly genuine. And really, it is. More genuine than the first as he gained more confidance as he spoke. Easily falling into the role of a public speaker. It wasn't all that different from the way he'd been educated in and the circles he had run in before. It also helped that no one here knew him and his past.]

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[The short, minimal information the woman gave caught Draco's attention. Interesting. When he responded there was only his smile, though, and pleasing tone.]

Hello, Ms. Natasha. It is a pleasure to meet you. I was, in a way. More trained for it, as my father had been in polotics and slated to follow largely in his shoes.This, however, will be taking a different approach than he had taken. A fact I am looking forward to as this position will provide a unique set of challenges I am looking forward to overcoming and meeting.

Also, yes. This was the job their survey ended with suggesting. One I felt confidant I could fulfill after taking time to deliberate on it. To be sure I could see a path for myself in it that would result in the benefit for all.

I don't mean to pry. I got assigned my old job, and I wondered if it was the same for everyone. I'm a dancer. [ The truth. She is in the ballet corps, here. Just not the whole truth. ]

I couldn't imagine doing anything else. [ This is not the truth. ]

It is good that you are in a position you enjoy. It is my hope to help others find a job they can enjoy going forward. And if the first option is not suitable helping to locate a better one. It will take some time to set up all I need to do this, but I will be working diligently to do so.

[He's not sure about this woman, but he has no reason to think her words are anything but straightforward. It was just the lingering impression from her inital response. The shortness of it.]

Don't worry. [ She smiles, wry, reassuring, a gesture she'd practiced to keep other people at ease. ] You don't have to win my vote. I'm sure you'll do fine.

[ He's young, she thinks. Sometimes appearances are tricks, but the comment about his father is telling. ]

Are you really British, or do you just have the accent? It's hard to know, here. I'm still getting used to— everything.

[Draco starts out by giving a slight bow.]

Thank you for your vote of confidance. And yes, I really am Brittish. I hail from Wiltshire, though my schooling was in Scotland. But most of my Professors were of English origin.

I'm Russian. From near Volgograd, originally. [ Though she isn't so naive to think this means they're from the same reality. Still, it's nice to have some common ground. As a rule, Natasha hates total unknowns. ]

My favorite part of my job was the travel, though. I've heard Scotland is beautiful. [ Her job as a ballet dancer. Да. ]

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I have been to Russia, however I do not believe to that particular area. I do agree that travel is nice, and scotland is certainly beautiful. I am finding, though, that this place has its own beauty as well.

[ Very politic, Natasha thinks. ]

Have you been outside the city walls?

[Draco gave a slight nod of his head.]

A bit, but not for very long. I hope to remedy that in the future.

Really? I've heard it's dangerous.

[ She isn't quite wide-eyed innocence, here, because that wouldn't be believable, but there is a note of concern in her voice. ]

[Draco gave a wiry smile.]

Well, I certainly do plan on taking the proper percautions.

How do you prepare for monsters?

[ This is a genuine question. Maybe his Britain was significantly removed from her own. Or maybe not.. Ka-Zar was a British peer, wasn't he? ]

The real kind, I mean. Not the metaphors we use, when people do things we can't explain.

Please, do give an example. I wish to make sure I understand you meaning before I respond more on this.

[To be fair, the psychotic Dark Lord was practically the only 'monster' he could dredge up in his mind. But then he lived in a world where myths and legends were largely fact, not fiction.]

Andrei Chikatilo murdered dozens of women and children in cold blood. He mutilated their bodies and ate their tongues. They called him the Butcher of Rostov.

That's not the kind of monster I mean.

[Draco's head is then cocked to one side with a look of some confuion apparent.]

then I am not sure what you could possibly mean. Though, now I think of it, I believe I remember in my first year in school muggle born students claiming magical beasts as monster. Perhaps that is more what you mean? Beasts that are simply not your normal species?

[ Natasha is bad at confused faces. But she can do blank expressions pretty well. ]

Pardon?

[ Because what. ]

[Draco struggles with what to say in response, because he doesn't know whar is hard to understand. So it takes a few moment before he responds.]

Was there something hard to understand in what I had said?

[ Ah. It was going to be one of those situations. ]

What's "muggle"?

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