driftfleet | Video + Marsiva

Who: Kitty Pryde
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva, hospitality deck
When: Current

[It starts recording without her realizing it. She's exploring her new surroundings cautiously. She places a hand on one of the cots and then pushes it through as if the cot weren't there at all. She removes her arm and both it and the cot are unharmed. Just testing her powers, don't mind her. She got worried when she realized her claws were missing.

Then she gets a better look at her communicator. It's a different model than she's used to.]

Is this another prison?

[It wouldn't be the first time the AIs sent them to a new facility. A space prison is as fitting as anything else, but there's usually some kind of message about it. This feels different.]

Is anyone from the Defense Force around? [Pause.] Or the X-Men. [She couldn't really be home though could she? In space?] Or anyone. Preferably someone with a light. [She can't find her lighter, but she still has a pack of cigarettes on her.]

(OOC: So, the coloring they used in AoA often makes her hair look reddish or blond, but I doubt the post-apocalyptic reality was really where she was going to start dying it. If you have known a Kitty Pryde, please just assume she looks like her—possibly younger or older. Shorter hair though. <3)

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I've been in a lot worse places. [Rogue answered honestly and without feeling the need to hold back, another rare thing.] If ya discount the fact that they're supposedly tapin' everythin' we say an' do out ta some audience somewhere, it's actually overall less invasive than it could be. Worst part's the boredom, the boredom an' the black.

...an' the food. [A bit of a pause.] Where are ya comin' from?

[Kitty really hates boredom especially if it comes with loneliness. Way too much time to think and reflect on things she can't do anything about now.]

MarinaNova Aslyum. It's a prison. An underwater dome thing. But it's basically just a small city. No cells. Really kind of nice if you don't count the lack of freedom bit.

I was heading up a team trying to overthrow the wardens. Guess someone else is now.

What were your worse places? [There's concern, not just curiosity.]

[Under the water, huh? That would make escape... difficult. Rogue nods at Kitty's assessment of following these things up, not really blinking too much at the thought of Kitty as a leader of a team. If there was one thing X-Men had practice in, it was teamwork. Things had been crazy enough that she had been leader for a time - why not Kitty?]

Folks in these sort of places have ta be adaptable to those leavin'. [It still hurts, but she hopes that Kitty is right and that her friends continued on.]

Luceti, mostly. [Really, not even Area 51 had been as terrifying as what she'd seen and done since then in that crazy place with the wings.] An' the battlefields around it... an' the time they sent us ta the moon. They had no stars, out in the black.

[And that just about sums up the delightfully hope-filled place it was.]

Edited 2016-02-05 03:42 (UTC)

[Escape certainly hadn't been going well. There was also a virtual reality dimension of it to deal with, but they were underwater either way.]

Luceti? It was a place like this one? With war? [Speculating from the battlegrounds.]

Yeah. [Rogue rakes a gloved hand through her hair.] It was a hot mess. Most of the time we were safe enough, inside the barrier, but outside...

[Rogue shakes her head and abruptly changes the topic - or angles it differently, Kitty is one person she'd be happy to talk about the past with, find a way to catch up, to listen to her experiences and share her own - build something real and not keep it at a nodding acquaintance stage. But not all abrupt like this, there's an instant trust because of who Kitty is which extends far, far farther than it probably should, but at the same time... these were not things that were easy to discuss.] Tell ya what, when you get out of there, we can get some drinks an' chocolate an' swap stories. My treat. I've got a decent payin' gig on the station.

[Kitty would like that too and she could probably use a little more time to adjust so she isn't so reactive. Maybe there were be fewer slips like telling Kurt his last name is Darkholme as far as she knew or telling Rogue about Magneto. Not that she wants to hide things or that she'll even know what is a touchy subject, but there are other ways of talking about it. Chocolate is a pretty good way.]

The station? Oh, right, someone mentioned I should get to stations and worlds when I get a chance.

Sure. That sounds good. Kind of funny to think about having a job and using money again. [Or for the first time kind of. Their system of currency collapsed when she was still pretty young. Her parents were paying for most things and she was a student. And then in the prison everything was free and working was only by choice if you were bored.]

Usually ya stay up on a Marsiva 'bout a week, then they shuffle ya to a ship. I never stay on the ships when they're docked. So just give me a ring when they let ya off. [A brief pause.] The ships are gettin' crowded, so enjoy the space up there when ya can, okay?

Will do. [Not that it will turn out to be long at all.] Remy told me to hoard a few things while I'm at it. [Thieves give the best advice, okay? There's a little head nod and a look. She's glad to have Rogue here.]

Thanks.

Wouldn't hurt. Our money's frozen for some reason, so we've gotta work straight off the boat. The stuff we find on the station's a sight better'n what's on the Marsiva, but the Marsiva's a sight better'n what's on most ships.

[A pause.]

Ring me when ya get shuffled. I'll make sure you've got enough credit ta bunk on the station if ya want. We've been here a few weeks, so I can point ya in the right direction for some jobs too, if ya want.

I will. That sounds good. [She can't really think about this being her life yet even though her experience says that's how it works. But she can think about the next thing and when she's done with that thing she'll do another and so on. And this plan works well as a next thing.

There's a nod.] I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled life. [She doesn't say thank you again, but...thank you.]

[Rogue knows how it is to want a little space after being dumped in a place like this. So she just nods.] I'll be around if ya wanna hear somethin' other than the trash they pump through the speakers.

[So feel free to keep in touch.]

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