four ☀ voice

[deshabille]

Who: Maladicta & u
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: if you want!! she's on the caprine!!!
When: rite meow, since this is a thing we say now

I believe Sergeant Polly Perks has left the Fleet.

[There is a brief pause here, less to signify anything like grief or sorrow and more to allow space for a subject change.]

I probably should have brought this up earlier, but in the interests of being fully prepared for all eventualities - what technologies or techniques are used in the future to revitalize dead land? I'm assuming even in space you have to feed people.

. . . I'd ask if there's a way to replicate these bizarre cubes outside of the Fleet, but I don't think the people of Borogravia would put up with a diet that didn't consist of 50% potatoes.

Comments

[nextlineis]

I don't suppose it's ever occurred to you that you're just really small.

[deshabille]

I'm a perfectly regular sized person.

[nextlineis]

You're joking, right? I know I'm really tall, but you're still really short.

[deshabille]

I am not. I'm tall for a woman in Borogravia, which makes me only a little short for a man.

[nextlineis]

Well, we're not in Borogravia, are we, Captain?

[deshabille]

We are if I say we are.

Quick, put on a headscarf. You're breaking the law.

[nextlineis]

What? What kind of stupid law is that?

[A beat as he also quickly remembers:]

And that's not how this works.

[deshabille]

It's just the law. Men have to wear headscarves on Borogravian territory. Which we're on.

[nextlineis]

We are not. You can't just declare something for Borogravia like that. But even if you could and we were--which you can't and we're not--I think you're making that up.

[deshabille]

I'm not making it up. It's a real law. Religious law, even.

I'm painting the Caprine in the colors of the Borogravian flag. Just you watch.

[nextlineis]

Is that so? You really think the rest of us are just gonna let you do that?