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Who: Hino Rei [

flameandpassion] and YOUUUU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva.
When: Now!

[ ah, the flood of new people.

rei has been watching the network for the past half-day or so, and carefully exploring the marsiva. she's run into a fellow fire princess, but has avoided most everyone else. instead, she's been listening. waiting, watching. absorbing as much as she can before recognizing that this is, indeed, not a joke.

she's no longer in adstringendum, but somewhere new. either castiel's ritual failed, or the animus decided to say one last 'fuck you' to their favorite shinto priestess before kicking her out the door. aelia, as always, is a cruel mistress.

so when rei turns on the feed, she looks like a typical eighteen-to-nineteen year old girl, but her eyes look a lot older. her hair is long and falls across her shoulders, and she's wearing a sweater, jeans, and boots -- all miraculously mended thanks to the atroma. how nice of them.

there's no hope in her expression, necessarily, but she can't help but ask : ]

Is there anyone here from Adstringendum?

[ that should bring out the familiars, anyway. and rei waits, almost as if she's expecting someone to burst in from off screen and go SURPRISE -- but when that doesn't happen, she continues, a bit wryly -- ]

If not, then I guess I have to start from scratch. Hino Rei, your new securities personnel. Or... whatever they call it.

[ she certainly doesn't look pleased about it, anyway, and finally, her expression breaks into something frustrated. ]

But if this so-called reality TV show thinks that they can just take over where the Animus left off, they have another thing coming, because I've had it up to here with --

[ and rei stops herself before gritting her teeth, exhaling slowly, and frowning into the camera. ]

When do I get off of this thing?

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Heh, you and me both.

[ it's spoken lightly enough. swill buddies, for the win. he's going to drag as much food as is humanly (angelically..??) possible off of this ship, so help him.

he's watching her face from the corners of his eyes while she speaks, however, moving toward the coffee machines that are always alive and kicking no matter the time or hour. gratitude for the small things in life.

it's when she mentions meeting him that cas gives pause again, resting his eyes fully on her face for a few fleeting moments before he's snagging two cups and sliding them beneath the founts. ]

Wish I could say I remembered. [ spoken genuinely. he can't help but wonder if he's ever going to get used to being recognized by people he's never known. honestly, it's far more bizarre than squeezing through dimensions to the fleet. ]

We're friends.

[ extraordinarily close friends, for whatever reason. rei still hasn't figured out how that happened, but she picks out a seat, rolling the apple between her hands on the table. ]

Castiel and I are, anyway -- I'd like to get to know you, too.

[ the whole name thing is going to be difficult. she's so used to calling her version 'cas' that she'll have to remember there's two now.

she picks up the apple and bites into it, savoring the taste of fruit, before chewing and swallow, speaking only when she's done. ]

We're all stuck on this ship together, right? Might as well make the most of it.

[ it's an odd thing to hear, really - friends. cas hasn't thought in those sorts of terms for years, and even then, he was such a different creature five years ago, a being entirely apart from what he is now, what he has become. friendship is a luxury none of them had had time for.

but he's paid his dues, hasn't he? he's made his sacrifices. he walked into that damned hospital to give dean a shot at the devil, and he's out now. isn't he? it's over. he's got time now to afford friends, he's given his life, atoned.

at least, that's what he can tell himself, even if it's impossible for him to believe it. not in a hundred lifetimes could he ever atone. ]

You know, I'd like that, too. [ he says, filling the first cup, sliding it aside, and beginning to fill the second. ] Even if it feels a little like cheating. I've kind of gotten a head start without even intending to, huh?

[ with both cups filled, he pops a big chocolate chip cookie between his teeth, then carries both coffees to the table, sliding one toward her. no cream, no sugar. he doesn't think to ask her how she likes it because.. well, he doesn't know that there is any other way to drink it besides black. ]

I don't know anything about your world, except what Sam told me.

[ the gross details, and rei has been steadily ignoring the fact that somewhere, somehow, sam winchester said yes to lucifer. and she's also steadily ignoring how castiel seemed to be the one who suffered the most for it.

she supposes dean did too, but. they've never really seen eye to eye, and so rei picks favorites in who to feel awful for. ]

So you have as much of a fresh slate as any. There's still time for me to not like you.

[ -- but it's said with such a dry tone that it's clear she's joking. rei doesn't think she could ever dislike castiel, no matter what he had been through, not after all castiel and rei have been through in adstringendum. ]

[ ... goddammit sam.

cas respects the guy, truly. likes him, even if his relationship with sam is a little.. odd right now, all things considered, and cas is sure he didn't mean anything by it, but that sam spilled anything about his world at all - it chafes a little. where he comes from, everything that's happened to him, it's an undeniably sensitive topic, and that people could know about it, any of it at all, no matter how small the detail, without him knowing it himself, or having given that information freely..

well, he's not really in love with the idea. and rei seems a decent girl, says she'd been friends with the other guy, but it still doesn't sit right. it feels uncomfortable, like being exposed, like something bad and wrong about him is right there in the open and it shows as much in the way his expression stills, the way his breath eases out of him in something not quite a sigh. ]

Right. [ he says, quietly, but it's not like she's asking questions so he plows right on past it, leaning forward on his elbows to break a bite-sized piece off of the cookie, forcing the easy expression back onto his face. ] Well, I'll do my best not to screw up the opportunity, but no promises.

[ rei doesn't need to have a powerful sense of intuition in order to read the look that crosses over cas' face, and she immediately frowns. sam had told her to prepare her, and rei is grateful that she did, but it didn't occur to her to hide that information from castiel. rei doesn't hide anything from him, and --

-- damn it. ]

... sorry. I --

[ rei purses her lips. ]

-- maybe it would be better to start with actual introductions.

[ not quite apologetic, but definitely sincere, and rei pulls her cup closer to her to contemplate it. ]

I'm Rei -- I'm a shinto priestess. [ and a destined warrior of the universe but details. ] Almost five years ago, I showed up in a place called Adstringendum, which is where I met Castiel and Sam -- and a bunch of other people, too.

[ pause ]

And Dean.

[ that last name is said a bit shrewdly. rei never really got along super well with dean. ]

Castiel and I became friends after he offered to help my friend and I hide from Lucifer, who... [ she trails off for a moment, to consider how she wants to continue. ] -- Lucifer and I didn't... we didn't get along. Castiel offered to hide us, and Lucifer tried to kill him for it. After that, I started talking to him more, and we've been friends ever since.

[ it's a super morbid story but true. ]

[ the moment she shifts tactics he regrets having shown it at all, because cas isn't really into it - the feelings thing. he's been around dean too long, forgotten how to talk, how to cope beyond drowning it all in liquor and sex and laughing it away because what else is there to do?

but you know, maybe it's for the best, if it means having a good, honest conversation about this, because there's no denying his burning curiosity here concerning adstringendum, this place he definitely doesn't remember, or has yet to arrive in, or.. well, there's a hundred ways to define it. doesn't matter.

either way it's got him leaning toward her on his elbows in clear interest.

and okay, it's a lot to digest. dean, of course, had been there as well - he should have guessed as much. but lucifer? the name alone is enough to get him lifting his eyebrows, a tight, tense expression settling over his features, it's not a name that settles easily into his gut, it roils and it rails. but that's lucifer for you.

at any rate, he's quiet once she finishes, thoughtful, before at last he takes a drink from his cup and sits back, exhaling slow and easy, kicking his feet up onto a nearby empty chair. ]

Sounds like a blast. [ he says, dryly. ] Five years. A long time to be away from home, too. How'd you get back?

I didn't.

[ rei lets go of her cup to cross her arms over her chest, settling back into her own chair, adjusting to tuck one leg underneath herself to be a bit more comfortable. ]

I thought I had left Adstringendum to go home, and I wound up here instead.

[ .. welp. ]

Tough break. Sorry to hear it.

[ genuinely. it's pretty rough, thinking you've fought the good fight, that you'll finally be able to rest for once, only to be flung right into some other problem, some different problem, far from home. ]

It wasn't in the cards for me to go home, I guess.

[ with a brief smile, and a slight wave of her hand. believing in fate wholeheartedly makes situations like these a bit easier to bear. ]

I'll make it there eventually. And I have friends here, so it's not unbearable.

[ she's pretty tough, huh? it's clear enough through this exchange alone that there's a great deal of strength in her, and that's certainly something that he can respect. at the very least, he doubts he'll have to worry about her taking care of herself. ]

Right. Seems there're a lot of people hanging around from Adstr.. Ads.. uh. That place. So you definitely won't be lonely. [ easy shrug, and he pops some cookie into his mouth. ] But hey, you get bored, the door's open.

Adstringendum. But you can call it Adstring; a lot of people do.

[ rei just prefers to spit out the whole latin clusterfuck of a word, apparently. ]

But it's a little worrying to me that so many of us showed up here... maybe the universe didn't collapse as neatly as we thought -- and I'll take you up on that offer, for when we're stuck in space.

[ ugh. rei hopes her shipmates are nice enough, until she can get to haruka and michiru's ship. ]

[ cas isn't even worrying about shipmates yet, tbh. one day at a time, as far as he's concerned. ]

Yeah.. that's pretty bizarre. Earth seems a pretty popular destination, too. At least half of the people I've spoken with are from Earth, or if they're not, they've heard of it. For a cosmos so big as this, it's a little telling.

[ shrug. ]

Guess we're popular.

[ we're popular, like castiel is actually from earth. ]

Maybe human beings make for good reality television.

[ it's been so long since rei has actually seen a television or used one that she almost forgot such things existed, but. she supposes she can see the appeal. ]

[ HEY LOOK..... he was on earth before he came here so that. counts for something ok. ]

What's reality television?

[ he's a lot more human than you might remember, rei, but there's no tv in shitty apocalypse land. ]

[ . . . right. ]

-- have you watched TV before?

[ may as well start from scratch ]

Nah, not really. Maybe once or twice.

[ kinda had other things on his mind. never even got to enjoy the pizza man and the babysitter, how sad for him. ]

Alright -- well, you know what television is, so that's a start.

Reality television is when cameras follow around a group of people and record their lives, and broadcast it on television for people at home to watch.

[ she pauses before picking up another piece of fruit ]

It's pretty stupid, and brain-numbing, but popular, I guess. I don't watch a lot of television.

So people just.. watch other people living their lives.

[ i mean, okay, cas can see the draw in it, but he's an angel - or well, he was for most of his long life, and he's always liked people watching. he loves humans, thinks their lives are interesting, but i mean, last he checked there wasn't time for luxuries like that. ]

.. well, fair enough. Whatever keeps people entertained, I suppose.

No one ever said humanity was intelligent.

[ she's peeling an orange ]

I think it's mostly an American thing -- I only heard about it when I got to Adstringendum, and I've never actually watched any reality television. Or maybe it is around in Japan and I just never bothered.

[ rei sort of lives in the middle of nowhere for living in tokyo ]

Maybe you should have. Could give you an advantage, huh? Knowing what it is that people like to see.

[ he's mostly teasing, of course, that reality tv sounds pretty absurd even by his loosened standards, but hey. he pops another chunk of cookie in his mouth. ]

Though I suppose it isn't very difficult to figure out.

I think my own life is crazy enough without watching someone else's drama.

[ dryly, and she splits the orange in half ]

Maybe that's why they dragged me here -- who knows.

Could be. [ he says, grinning over his coffee before swallowing a gulp. ] Seems like there's never a dull moment in your life. I imagine that's what people like to see.

No different than your life, I'm sure.

[ as horrible at it is, rei has a feeling atroma likes that kind of thing. the animus surely did. ]

But I'm sure people like to see something they think is "exciting." I'm looking forward to boring, personally.

[ he lifts his eyebrows at that, sitting back with a quick sigh. ]

Yeah, guess you're right about that. It's a whole different thing, looking in on it from the outside, I guess, than it is living through it.

[ glad their hellish lives can get them.. good ratings, or something. real nice. ]

But hey, may as well make the best of it, anyway. Least the food's good. [ wagging half a cookie for emphasis!! ]

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