bishop mingle

[invigorates]

Who: Bishop crew and visitors!
Broadcast: NO!!!!
Action: On the Bishop!!!
When: JANUARRRRYYY!!!

[ DEAR BISHOP CREW: WELCOME YOUR NEW MEMBERS, BE MERRY, DO STUFF. YEAH!! ]

Comments

[experiencepoints]

Uh, yeah. Welcome to the Bishop. I guess we've already done the introductions, though...

[bloodbiter]

Yes, we have.

May I ask who the other occupants of this ship are? I'm certain I'll meet them shortly, but even so.

[experiencepoints]

There's a bunch of us, on a rotating roster... I don't have everyone's names down yet, myself.

[bloodbiter]

You mean to say we're sent to different ships frequently?

[experiencepoints]

... Not exactly, no.

People vanish from the fleet periodically.

[bloodbiter]

They vanish? I was informed that leaving was impossible.

[experiencepoints]

Leaving is.

The Atroma making you vanish, though? That isn't.

[bloodbiter]

Why would they do that?

[experiencepoints]

... You want my insight into the motivations of a group of mysterious god-powered kidnappers? I don't really have any.

[bloodbiter]

Well, it was worth asking if you had any additional information, at the very least.

May I ask you something, though?

[experiencepoints]

Hm? Shoot.

[bloodbiter]

When we first spoke, you referred to me by another name, and then said you didn't wish to speak of it. I apologize if it's a difficult subject, but... I would like to understand.

[experiencepoints]

... Well.

I knew a... Someone, who looked just like you. It might have been another version of you, even. I was never really close to her, so I can't say.

[bloodbiter]

[a pause]

Forgive me if that sounds a bit farfetched. Not that I think you're lying, of course. I assume it was just someone who looked similar to me.

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, it's possible. But after a while here, you stop thinking anything is too weird to be possible.

[bloodbiter]

[that gets a small laugh, somehow]

I suppose this is among one of the strangest things to happen to me.

["among"]

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, it's not even in the top ten for me. Or anywhere close.

[bloodbiter]

I wonder if that's one of the reasons they selected us.