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Who: Beverly Crusher and you!!!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Nominally beach but really anywhere! Feel free to tag her with a place of your choice!
When: July 26th until the end of the glitchiness

[Beverly woke up this morning feeling strangely... invigorated. Looser, more carefree, and dare she say it? Happier than she's felt in months, ever since she first arrived on the Marsiva. To celebrate, she decided to head for the beach.

Which is where you'll find her now, lounging on a towel and reading a book that looks suspiciously similar to the ah... literature Dorian was so kind as to read out loud to the network a while back. At the very least, there's a ridiculous picture of a shirtless burly man in a plaid kilt on the front cover. As for her, well, she's wearing a very stylish green bathing suit and a big white sunhat, thoughtfully provided by a fan (who has thankfully saved you all from seeing her in some 1980s sparkly gold monstrosity instead). No doubt if you approach her, she'll flash a blinding smile your way and cheerfully engage you in conversation. Or better yet, some fun activities! Right now, she's up for almost anything!]

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A year...

[That wasn't what she wanted to hear, so she takes a deep breath. (Someone hasn't quite figured out that they're using different calendars yet.)]

Which ship, and which crewmates? I'll ask them directly.

Ask them what directly?

The planets the fleet's been to so far, what the very beginning was like, if there's been any other events similar to this place, with the bugs getting poisoned and attacking, plus the angry noises when we got here... Things like that. I need as much information about this place as I can get.

I don’t know firsthand what the beginning of this cycle was like, but I do know this was the first time the fleet has encountered anything as disastrous as what happened on the Iskaulit, though we were attacked a couple of months ago by an unknown fleet of ships. Whether or not the incidents are directly connected, we haven’t been able to determine.

As for the other things, the ships’ logs will contain a lot of the information you’re looking for. The Bishop also has a physical library, where they keep some star charts, if you’re interested in something like that. I’ve been studying them myself, when I have the time.

[She smiles.]

Not that you can’t still talk to Sokka and Allen, of course. They were both very helpful when I first arrived!

-- Oh, Allen's part of your crew? Kid with the creepy eye lens? I didn't realize he'd been around since the start...

"This cycle", though... [She shakes her head, not happy to hear it.] I don't think the logs will give me everything I need- The Atroma manage those, right? Something directly under their control is useless if I want to find a weakness or objective of theirs.

[She may come back to the other stuff at the moment, but right now she is focused on what Nightingale said about Allen, frowning in a mixture of confusion and defensiveness. It doesn't help that the glitch is helping to amplify her affections for her friends.]

He's older than he looks.... And what do you mean "creepy eye lens?"

[Allen's not creepy!!!]

What do you mean, what? How can you miss his creepy voyeur...

[wait a second

that eye sees fucked up souls. this person's soul is probably normal so it wouldn't set it off and maybe she doesn't know about it. was he keeping it a secret. shit.]

... Fuck.

[Beverly's eyebrows go up at that because well... frankly, Nightingale just made Allen sound like a peeping tom or something here, though Beverly is certain that's not what she meant - if for no other reason than that she could never imagine Allen doing such a thing. But what if it was something having to do with the Noah?]

... nothing bad happened between you two, did it?

Uh, no, he just- Bought this creepy-ass costume monocle thing down here? It freaked me out. That's all.

[Congratulations, Beverly, you've found her. You've found the worst liar in the multiverse.]

"Creepy-ass monocle thing?" Now, why do I not believe that?

Because I am very bad at this.

[At least she's self-aware.]

[Beverly chuckles at that.]

It's alright. As long as neither of you are hurt, it doesn't really matter!

[... not that... she won't be asking Allen about this later.]

... Just... Before you talk to him, confirm for me- He doesn't have a weird gear-looking lens around his eye when he's with you?

[because there's no way she's not talking to him about it]

Edited (herp derp grammar) 2015-08-03 02:33 (UTC)

No, I've never seen anything like that.

Fuck.

Listen, don't worry! If Allen doesn't want to talk to me about it, that's his prerogative; I'm not going to force him to tell me anything. It'll be fine!

I'm still not exactly happy about accidentally spilling someone else's secrets.

Did he tell you it was a secret? Because it sounds to me as if you didn't realize it was something other people didn't know about.

Well, no, I didn't realize it wasn't always on... Just that I set it off.

Then I really think it's okay. Allen would have said something if he didn't want you talking about it. Trust me, he's very careful when it comes to things like that.

[Besides, Beverly probably already knows a lot more about him than Nightingale realizes.]

I think he might have been distracted, though.

Well, if you're that worried, why don't you just talk to him about it?

Because if I went up to him my soul would set off that eye of his again, and he really didn't like it.

[Okay.... that doesn't really make sense to Beverly. At all. But she lets it slide.]

What if you write him instead?

... I guess I could try. I don't have any pen or paper, though.