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[mucked]

Who: a newly canon-updated peggy carter and YOU.
Broadcast: fleetwide video
Action: ss starstruck for crewmate and any visitors.
When: beginning today, but feel free to forward date something if you like.

VIDEO (FLEETWIDE)

[ stern-faced, peggy appears upon the network. ] Does 'zero matter' mean anything to anyone? Pointed, I know, and a bit a long shot...but -- if there's anywhere I might find some resource or knowledge about such matters, then the fleet is my best hope. Otherworldly mysteries are not well within my wheelhouse.

[ there are other questions she could ask -- but no, zero matter might be the safest inquiry out of a great many others. and even then, it's barely safe at all. but it must be asked, for now she feels most preoccupied with the work conducted back home. the fleet is almost a secondary thought -- a distant, archaic priority. ]

Alternatively -- [ she sighs. until now, she hasn't been agent cater within the fleet, much preferring to be the more social and civilian version of herself. ] -- I wouldn't mind hearing a bit more about worlds. Different worlds, universes, what have you. I know none have been successful in creating a rift between this place and any other but -- surely, such rifts must exist elsewhere.

ACTION (STARSTRUCK)

[ long story short: peggy carter took a nasty spill inside one of the sr shuttles, and is now back on her feet after being out cold for nearly a day. on the surface, it seems like nothing's the matter. not seriously so, at least. but as she goes about her ship duties, there's a glassy-eyed quality to her gaze. it takes her a little too long to remember someone's name -- as though she's reaching back by weeks or maybe months to recall details she'd been living every day.

find her in the kitchen, where she's preparing one of her two or three or sometimes four daily cups of tea. or find her in the cargo bay where she's trying to use the recreational equipment. she quickly gives up on the punching bag because although she no longer has stitches holding her guts together, there persists a tight ache in the flesh. she settles for the treadmill.

wherever else she might be encountered, her crankiness is persistent. ordinarily patient with her crew, peggy's kindness has been thinning out all week. she appears tightly wound and disengaged. ]

Comments

[pneumo]

Well, I've always wanted to learn to dance...

[mucked]

Word of advice: avoid the circus; take lessons.

[pneumo]

...Do you know how to dance? [ Hint hint ]

[mucked]

No. Not one step. [ she lies. partly because she sees where this is going and partly because dancing. it's too fresh a wound. ]

[pneumo]

[ Foiled. Ah well. ]

Dang...

[mucked]

And yet I imagine there are others in who are fleeter of foot than myself. Don't give up hope, if dancing's what you want to do.

[ she'll just save her steps for someone in particular. ]

[pneumo]

Well...it's not my dream, but it'd still be fun! I'll ask the wolf later♥

[mucked]

...The wolf?

[pneumo]

The Big Bad Wolf, yeah!

[mucked]

...The one from the Three Little Pigs?

[pneumo]

Uh-huh♥ but I don't think he still eats them.

[mucked]

I didn't realize a leopard could change his spots.

[pneumo]

...well, yeah! He's a wolf, not a leopard.

[mucked]

Do you always take things so literally?

[pneumo]

...Did you mean something else?? [ Sascha isn't familiar with most human sayings, being a vampire and all. He doesn't get to spend as much time with them. ]

[mucked]

It was something of an old adage, that was all. On the...immutability of some things.

[pneumo]

...I only know what some of those words mean.

[mucked]

-- Which ones can I help you in understanding?

[pneumo]

Addage and mutiny? [ At least, that's what he thinks he heard from those. ]

[mucked]

An adage is a saying -- like a platitude, perhaps. And mutiny is something else entirely.

[pneumo]

A...plata-what? [ Simpler words are necessary for the poor vampire who's never had a formal education. ]

[mucked]

Platitude. A sentence, I suppose. But with a moral at its heart.

[pneumo]

You use a lot of really big words.

[mucked]

I can try not to -- if you like.

[pneumo]

I'd make it easier to understand... [ Which comes out like an apology since, well. He is behind in that regard and he knows it must be annoying. ]