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Tim Drake ([personal profile] detectivewonder) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-01-29 03:47 pm

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Who: Tim Drake AND YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide video & text stream.
Action: The Marsiva.
When: 1/29; evening.

[Tim has been pacing the deck, finding every corner, every computer console, working furiously to research whatever he can since the moment he woke up. Knowledge is a form of control; secrecy is another, and he has far too much of one and absolutely no guarantee of the second, and it makes him edgy. But once he's gotten a grip on the basic concept, delaying makes no sense.]

[The video broadcast reveals a young man - eighteen, give or take a few months - in a trim blue suit and red tie, dark hair neatly parted but still falling into his eyes, which are blue and unmistakably angry or tense no matter how well we modulates his tone and keeps it off the rest of his face, crisp and professional.]


Good... evening, I think, is the local time? Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne, Pilot Officer reporting for duty - or I will be soon, if I'm getting the right idea here. I wanted to reach out and touch base before I was assigned - get an idea of what the ships are like, who I might be serving with, how long everyone's been here. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.
catamite: (career smile)

video

[personal profile] catamite 2015-01-29 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh wow. this one catches Nel's attention pretty fast, so he eventually flips on the video feed.

Tim gets the face of a kid around his age--but decorated with piercings, raggedy dyed hair, and... distinctly pointed ears.]


Wow, you're so professional. You actually sound like you know what's going on around here.
Edited 2015-01-29 23:43 (UTC)
catamite: (show me the dead stars)

[personal profile] catamite 2015-01-30 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow! That's impressive.

I guess you just sounded so... I don't know. Like you actually belong here or something. It's weird.
catamite: (use smaller words)

[personal profile] catamite 2015-01-30 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It... is?

You're not mad that you're here?
catamite: (career smile)

[personal profile] catamite 2015-01-31 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Man... you've already got goals?

Like what?

[teach him your ways.]
catamite: (use smaller words)

[personal profile] catamite 2015-02-01 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
And what's that?

[because... Nel didn't get it the first time.]
catamite: (career smile)

[personal profile] catamite 2015-02-03 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
--Oh.

[hey, he thinks he gets it!]

Like, cooperating so they'll let you go?