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[misconceived]

WHO The Huntress crew (& YOU?)
BROADCAST Non.
ACTION SS Huntress
WHEN May 24th and onward

[ Welcome to your regularly scheduled insanity, Elize! The ship is nice and rather upgraded, not to mention Shirley's valiant efforts to make it a bit more homey. With two demons, a fish-person prophet of the ocean, a former Templar and... Isabela, the crew is rather lively but somehow hasn't torn itself apart. Yet.

With all the things going on this month, a casino with great prizes and a magical forest, there's plenty of buzz and movement. But what is everyone up to during the downtime? ]

Comments

[hearsthesea]

No, it wasn't that.

[She hasn't had much luck with the casinos to begin with, frankly, but that's fine with her. Ongoing fears, less so. She hesitates when Chris asks, but...well, she trusts him.]

I've been gone from home nearly six months now. They'll have noticed my disappearance soon after I was taken, and I'm very important to the Ferines. I'm afraid that it will cause a lot of trouble.

[misconceived]

[ Chris takes a deep breath. He understands that concern, fights with it every day, but it seems he knows something Shirley doesn't. Or at least something she doesn't want to believe in. ]

I get how you feel. If... time is still moving back home, I've miss a ridiculously important deadline myself. But... when Dad got here—I don't think time is moving. At least not the regular way? He showed up a few weeks after I did, but he was from exactly the same time as when I'd been pulled here, too.

[hearsthesea]

He was?

[News to her. But if it's true...]

I'd be very happy if that were the case. But how?

[misconceived]

Yeah. We were... in the middle of an argument at the time, it's kind of hard to forget.

[ Which eventually ended up with him grounded but Chris is definitely not mentioning that. ]

How what? How did they do any of this? Maybe we're just on some kind of time-altered plane. It's hard to say. All I know is what I know.

[hearsthesea]

They did have to do something extraordinary to get us here in the first place.

[She doesn't sound quite so bothered now, just confused. She hasn't felt this uninformed since the time everyone found out they were fighting a goddess.]

[misconceived]

Magic, science, miracle, whatever it was... there's a really good chance we're not going to get home exactly like we're hoping. No matter what that is.

[ He shrugs. It bothers him, but not in the way of other, more important things. There's a priority system he's got going on here and surprisingly, the time in which he gets home is kind of low on it. ]

[hearsthesea]

Yeah. But if nobody at home will panic because of it...I still want to go home, but at least I wouldn't have to worry about that.

[misconceived]

[ Chris nods. ]

Yeah, exactly. It's like... if we know that, now we've got all the time we want to be entertaining until we can go home happy as clams.

[hearsthesea]

I wouldn't say that. I still don't feel very entertaining, besides.

[misconceived]

Well, then you're probably the luckiest one here. It means they aren't trying to make your life hell.

[hearsthesea]

They'd have to threaten my home to do that. I've been through worse than this.

[That's not supposed to tempt fate, but...]

[misconceived]

Haven't we all?

[ Which is another weird thing. ]

Still, you've either got the long end of the stick or the short one. You meet our newest member yet? [ that was a great segue what are you talking about ]

[hearsthesea]

Newest member? Do you mean Elize?

[Shirley brightens a little. She likes Elize.]

[misconceived]

Yeah, Elize.

[ She's adorable and it's hard not to be affected, even as awkward as Chris is around kids. Or... people... ]

She's kind of young to be here, don't you think?

[hearsthesea]

She is. I don't think I've seen anyone her age here before.

[Not so good. But unfortunately not out of line for Atroma, either.]

Has she been having problems?

[misconceived]

Not that I know of... but I'm just a little worried. The kind of places we stop aren't exactly the greatest influences.

[ Read: they're at a casino station right now. ]

[hearsthesea]

She seems to get along well with Cullen, though. I've only talked to her a few times so far, but I think she'll be be all right with him.

[Cullen's been nothing but good to Shirley, anyway. It's hard to imagine him being otherwise with Elize.]

[misconceived]

And if not with him, then with the rest of us.

[ Cullen seems all right, but Chris is just wary in general. At least he knows Elize is on a ship where they can be trusted to all look out for each other. She's just so... small... ]

I just didn't think someone her age would be brought around, you know?

[hearsthesea]

And she seems...

[Shirley casts about for a word.]

--quiet. I've known someone even younger than her who would be much more vocal about it all if she were here - not that either of them ought to be.

[Still, the image of Hattie, ten years old and raising hell for the Atroma, does bring a smile to her face for a second.]