driftfleet | .05 if i live the life i'm given, i won't be scared to die

Who: Rogue and anyone, really
Broadcast: Video, why not?
Action: The Star Space Station
When: Basically all week, Video Sunday afternoon

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[Rogue doesn't really like addressing the fleet at large, so she keeps it brief.]

Alright, folks, here it is - one of the best places we've been yet ta stock up. What's on your 'must bring back to the ship' list an' [more importantly, maybe] how are ya plannin' on storin' it?

[She's got her own list, but she knows the way these things usually go and she doesn't want to forget anything in case it winds up being a long, long dry spell before they hit another place this good.]

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[Sooner or later, Rogue always falls into a routine. She's too well known in the fight circles now to make any real money, so she's taken to working as a chef/bartender at one of the middling-to-fancy restaurants. When not there, she is either 1) shopping (thank you, space gods, for a place that finally carries lipstick) 2) in the 'datary' checking out books to be 3) read in the garden. or jogging in the garden. Let's be honest, being around actual plantlife feels amazing after the desert planet, the frozen planet, and let's not forget -- space. Garden, reading, ~~wine~~ whiskey, chocolate, lipstick -- a good day. And then it was time to start it all over again.]

[By the time Rogue had given Kitty directions to where to meet, she'd had time to get... nervous about it. Which was dumb, but true. They'd talked fine enough over the communicator, why should meeting in person be any different?

In any event, Rogue hopes that Kitty will like the place. It was one of those middle level spots that she could easiest afford, and she's found a table that would let them both have their backs to the wall, let them both keep an eye on the door. She waits, gloved hands curled around her coffee.]

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[Rogue was quiet for a moment, then she nodded.] Yeah, ya are. How're ya settlin' in?

It's okay. It doesn't entirely feel real. I keep waking up thinking I'll be back at the prison and all this will be just another psychological thriller of theirs.

Do you feel settled? I know you've been here awhile.

[Rogue shrugs one shoulder.] Yes an' no. I have the hang of it, but space is weird. I've spent time out in it before, an' I'm awful glad ta have the stars in this place, but I can't say I really like it.

I am pretty sure it's real enough, though. [Too many things had been wrong when she'd got here; the balance of her powers had also changed. It wasn't a shift. So.] So - there's that.

I don't think you're really just in my head or anything. [Even if technically everything she experienced in the last year was just in her head while her body was locked up in a life containment pod. She couldn't tell the difference then so she wouldn't be able to tell it now so all she's really saying is she doesn't think her mind is making it up.]

Good. 'cause then I'd be really confused. ['cause, ya know, that's her schtick.]

We wouldn't want that. All real people in bodies and minds. It's a new and exciting adventure. [Except she usually thought of people in the prison like that too. At first because she just believed they were and later because it was easy to forget when all your senses were telling you something.]

I guess I should be doing things like finding a job while were here. How long are we usually at stations like this? Is there a pattern?

[Rogue shakes her head.] If there was, it all got set off when we were pushed into the nebula by that other fleet. Folks'll say that was an 'attack', [she felt it was important to qualify], and they surely were shootin' at us, but they stopped as soon as they had us where they wanted us. Since then, every communication with Atroma's been different - weird an' patchy, and they ain't sendin' us those annoying 'letters from the audience' anymore.

[She just... assumes that people have filled Kitty in on this stuff. Just because she hates talking to newbies about timelines and fending off the same. questions. always. doesn't mean that half the fleet isn't usually falling over itself to do just that, just like in Luceti. And that's why she doesn't even pause to just relate this all back to Kitty's question.] So it's pretty easy ta get a job here, an' they're used ta people comin' an' going. What kinda work do you wanna do?

[She'd heard about the attack before, but Rogue connects some dots that hadn't been connected before. Like the way the communications seem likely directly connected to it. She'd also never heard of the letters from the audience before, but she doesn't ask for a follow up on it. She'll just take this in.]

Want to do? [What does she want to be when she grows up? Too hard to take it there.] Something in my skill set with the most reward for the output. Bonus points if I get to explore in the process.

.05 if i live the life i'm given, i won't be scared to die

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