Itsa mingle!

[amicably_absent]

Who: SS Golden crew and any visitors
Broadcast: Probably not
Action: SS Golden
When: When you'd like!


[It's a mingle! So mingle!]

Comments

[precedented]

[ Leto had just finished up at the casino at the late hours of the night. No one questions his age. His eyes carry the years far clearer than any ID ever could.

As he was passing by . . . Ah. Their engineer, the Scarecrow. Wandered a little far from the familiar, but that is his tune until the song ends. ]

Glitch, isn't it?

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch is sitting outside the casino. He likes the lights and the life, it reminds him of something, but he isn't sure what. A girl, with blue eyes? A cabaret?

He looks up as his name is called, blinking and giving an absent smile.]

Hello? yes! Hello, have we met?

[precedented]

No and yes.

[ The meeting was now, their meeting was then, their meeting was a pebble in the stream of time. ]

Are you lost?

[amicably_absent]

[Leto, he has enough trouble remembering five minutes ago, don't even think of discussing subjective time with the poor man in this state.]

Maybe? I suppose I'm lost, if there's somewhere I'm meant to be. But if there's nowhere I'm meant to be, then no, I'm not lost!

[precedented]

[ Wryly. ]

I suspect you are meant to be on the ship. At least, long enough for you to realize the difference between lost and found.

[amicably_absent]

This ship? Which ship? What ship?

Who are you? Do I know you?

[precedented]

Your ship, the Golden. You had best get acquainted it, for your own good.

[ How to say this without coming off as odd to someone who already is an oddity in his own right. . . ]

I am one of your ship mates. We are meeting for the first time.

[amicably_absent]

I have a ship?

[He sounds overwhelmed and disbelieving.]

Where did I get it? Why did I give it such a boring name...? Is it actually golden?

[He pauses.]

Hang on. You used my name. How do you know my name?

[precedented]

Well, it is a ship we all share. And no, it is not golden. Your name was on the ship manifest.

[ Leto wonders if Glitch can retain this much information. He needs actual bonds to make this work. ]

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch wrinkles his nose, fully aware that he probably won't remember this very quickly.

A ship. A big ship then...]

There was a sleep creeper. He got in bed with me. I don't know what else he did...

[precedented]

A . . . sleep creeper?

[ He retraces Glitch's timeline, slipping into the past. His expression clears up. A man named Sascha, apparently. ]

I don't think he, ah, did anything else to you.

[amicably_absent]

[If he heard the name, Glitch might even remember it.]

But we can't be sure of that. And that's not the point! Creepy sleep creeper.

[precedented]

[ Leto doesn't really pay attention to physical or social boundaries. Ruby never cared for them, when they were a team, constantly draping or touching each other for comfort.

Besides, most people would avoid touching him on principle. ]

Did you tell him off?

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch is fine with close contact. If he's chosen it.]

Of course I did! And he got indignant that I was upset!

[Leto may actually be able to see it happen. High emotions, stress, something fires and then midfires in Glitch's remaining brain, a sequence that never completes and instead resets to where it was moments before.]

He got indignant that I was upset!

[And the same things starts to happen again. He'll keep doing it until the feedback loop is interrupted.]

[precedented]

[ He interrupts carefully, his tone soothing. ]

I'm sure it won't happen again.

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch blinks, and gets past the glitch.]

Damn right it won't. I don't sleep where he is. I could... make a thingy.

[He pushes his fingertips together. There's thoughts, sparking, hints of the former brilliance trying to push out.

Then he looks somewhere else and then back, blinking. Wiped free again.]

Hi! Have we met?

[precedented]

[ Memory loss was one thing. Leto was familiar with that. This . . . might take a new level of patience. ]

Yes, we have. Just now, in fact.

[ There must be an easier way of doing this. But magic . . . or magical impairments were beyond his skill to heal. ]

[amicably_absent]

Oh! I don't remember your name, sorry. I probably won't for a while. I remember Cain! And... and DG!

DG! The witch!

[He's off again, some other time and place.]

[precedented]

Glitch, you need to center yourself. You cannot lose yourself in another world right now or you might meet an unpleasant fate.

[ He'd shake him a little, if it would help. He can't use his skills on someone with a wandering mind . . . so to speak and Leto was loathe to touch anyone without their permission. ]