2.21 - Voice + Spam

[breakingmyheart]

[Library & Kitchen Filters]

I've been unpaired from Jesse. I still plan on keeping both my jobs. If that's alright.

[Even though she kind of hates both of them, it's marginally better than having nothing to do all day.]

[Private to Megamind]

...I can help. With the project you were talking about.

[Open Spam - Deck]

[So it's been a fortnight. The breach was - well - things happened. She's been through her most grotesquely violent death toll to date. And then she got off the Barge in LA and stole from a cashpoint for the express purpose of buying drugs, which - didn't happen, in the end.

Small mercies. She might not have been feeling any worse for having succeeded but deep down she knows the better would be very, very fleeting.

And then the Admiral separated her from Jesse. Or Jesse asked to be unpaired. She doesn't know. He said he didn't, she'd like to believe him, but she wouldn't really blame him for spotting a lost cause either. Megamind called her a model Inmate not so long ago but it doesn't feel like she was modelling anything except peaceful noncompliance.

She doesn't often break the library -> kitchen -> (gym) -> shower -> sleep cycle but she needs some time and fresh air to decompress and so after the dinner shift she's out on deck, sitting on a bench and somewhat reading a book but not really paying attention to it.]

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[fridgetothefire]

[Anya's been watching out for her, a little. She didn't want to hunt Tosh down when she was obviously trying to stay out of everyone else's orbits - it's a pattern Anya is familiar with - but she has been waiting for an opportunity. She scoots onto the bench next to Tosh, speaks quietly without looking at her, gazing out at the view instead.]

I'd like to talk to you. But if that's not okay, I can go.

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[megamind]

Yes, ah. I see. I'll be glad to get you up to date.

[ Jesse already told him the news so... yeah. How about not bringing that up. ]

[tolaywaste]

[Sometimes Alex wonders if he should resent her. After all, he resents Erik a lot of the time, the choices he made, the actions he took. But that's more - personal. And maybe that's the difference. Alex felt pain when Tosh took over, and those he loves felt more (which is where the only small glimmering of resentment comes in), but he can't bring himself to hate her.]

[He's been keeping an eye on her, from a distance because she doesn't know him or give a damn. It's so rare that she's up here at all that he pauses, trying to figure out if he should say anything at all or just leave.]

[In the end, he clears his throat, a little awkward.]

Anything interesting?

[youwill]

[Hannibal didn't really know what to make of the Barge when he first arrived. The network was incredibly helpful, and he's spent days reading silently in his cabin, taking in the lives of the people he is now surrounded by.

For a rather relative definition of 'life,' in any case.

He's mused on that, too, certain he heard a gunshot before standing abruptly in this poor version of his kitchen. Could Will have shot him? He's asked himself that question precisely once: there is only one conclusion. He planned too well to misjudge. Which means this is the Admiral's doing, and little else - something he finds unsettling, given the unreachable status of their questionable leader.

He doesn't like being unsettled.

And he doesn't like the idea of hiding, either. He takes in the setting before introducing himself - inspiration has already struck, but it needs time to take root. Aside from an early run in with a very angry man who quickly mistook him for another (proof enough for Hannibal that his name should, for the moment, remain a mystery), he hasn't paused to interact with anyone.

It's the deck and its view he's interested in, when he pauses beside the bench, not Tosh. He keeps a respectable distance, hands held at his side, and he looks at the view not with wonder or befuddlement, but a certain reserved curiosity. Eventually, though, he looks down at her and speaks.]

I hope I am not distracting you. [Though it's obvious enough to him that she wasn't paying attention long before he arrived.]

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[strangehistorian]

Oh.

[Now she's wondering why. Maybe there's no point to that.]

Yes, that's fine!