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[versusnurture]

Who: ??? (but secretly abigail) (BUT WHO) & you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: P....ossibly but I'm not sure where yet!
When: 12/8, early morning

I can't find a listing of ships counselors. I know they exist, I just need a list. And I need to know which ones are actually reliable. Personal experience rather than conjecture preferred but not requisite.

[And that . . . appears to be all.]

Comments

[versusnurture]

That's actually one of the nicer epithets people have used for me.

[She doesn't mind it. And some of these things make her eyebrows raise - a combat medic, then a pacifist. Four kids. A good parent? She couldn't say, and asking would give so much away.]

[What gets her in the end is the part about animals. Liking animals is important.]

Thank you. What's troubling me now is less important than what will be troubling me soon. Sometimes things get dark and I don't really know which way is up, and I want to have someone I can trust to call on in those times.

[hymnals]

I thought it was pretty gentle. You should hear what people call me. Not my name, usually.

[He makes a 'hrrmmnh' noise in his throat.]

I hear you. My brother is that way.

[versusnurture]

People have called me lots of things, but not many of them are alliterative.

Is he here too? Your brother.

[hymnals]

I try to be lyrical.

And no, he's not here. Probably a good thing. I know we have the planets and so forth, but by and large we're too isolated up here. Too boxed-in. Not the environment for him.

[versusnurture]

Do you think that's true of everyone who's like him?

[hymnals]

Trust me, there's hardly anyone like him. But if you mean people who are troubled in general, not necessarily. Most folks just need a solid support network. People they can trust, like you've said.

[versusnurture]

Yeah. That's what I'm trying to get, too. But I'm pretty new, so it's not that easy.

You're a lot less of an asshole than you seemed like five minutes ago, you know.

[hymnals]

I'm direct, and I don't waste time with bullshit. So I'm an absolutely an asshole, by the popular definition.

But I'm pretty good at listening.

[versusnurture]

Bullshit is just another way of lying. So I appreciate that attitude, once I'm sure it's not the same thing as someone not caring.

[hymnals]

It is another way of lying. And I don't tolerate lies of any kind.

[versusnurture]

Sometimes people lie to themselves without meaning to, though.

[hymnals]

Yes, true. In that case, it's a matter of uncovering the lie and finding the willingness to confront it.