trj communicator ;

[kaijuice]

SILCO ;

INMATE OF THE S.F.S. PEREGRINE

Comments

[kaijuice]

What is it that you want, Barnes?

[counterstep]

in what context?
from you?
or in general?

[kaijuice]

Surprise me.

[counterstep]

if you don't really care enough to specify then i don't see the point in telling you

[kaijuice]

Every Warden here is acting in service of promises made. If you've expectations of this arrangement, they are ultimately equivalent.

[counterstep]

ah you mean the boon

i actually don't have anything arranged with them. i just wanted to try my hand at something else, and they approached me about helping out. being here is my windfall. there's nothing else promised to me.

( no real point lying about it either. they don't have anything they could possibly offer that he wants other than trying something different than he had on earth. )

[kaijuice]

Have you heard of a 'hobby'?

[counterstep]

learning about space is my hobby

guess where we are

( ta-da! )

[kaijuice]

Academy log: The stars are white and sterile. The moon cares deeply that no one swim without supervision. In the vast expanse of sky, I have yet to find a single cigarette.

[counterstep]

is that some kind of reference
cigarettes would be nice though yeah
and alcohol
good alcohol

[kaijuice]

Any good researcher takes notes.

[counterstep]

( researcher, huh. )

good point i should start doing that
were you in science? is there like a good way too document this kinda stuff?
i never learned

[kaijuice]

My, how great our common ground.

[counterstep]

har har
no need to be facetious

what have you got to lose anyway? we're already in deep space. it's not like either of us can jettison off at will.

[kaijuice]

No one taught me to read.

[ throw the dog a cheap bone. there's too much here to lose — it's speaking with another at this very moment. ]

You ought to hassle Mercer.

[counterstep]

( cheap. but he knows how to play the game, still is. )

about what?

[kaijuice]

Science.

[ naturally. they both know that's not why bucky asked - the side effect of text-based communication is that bucky can't see the absolute shit-eating innocence of his expression.

silco trusts he can imagine. ]

[counterstep]

( the simplicity of the response makes bucky smile. )

what's he got to do with science?

[kaijuice]

I'm given to understand it his specialty.