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It's nice to have the option though, if you want it!

Um. Well, Dr. Crusher is working with people to try to build the equipment to talk to the nanobots and do the other complicated stuff, so it's proceeding! Which is good. Just gotta be patient.

It was way easier to be patient when I didn't think anyone could fix it.

True but better to not have Ordis worry more than usual. [Which was a lot and more than the tenno thinks he should have.]

That sounds like a start. Patience is always good when it comes to injuries. Things need to be done right rather than rushed and wind up worse than they already are. You'll get through it though. You're strong, Wrath.

He seems to worry about a lot. [Ordis needs to calm his computer tits.]

Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm just bad at the patience thing sometimes. So I try to keep busy. [Aw, such a nice compliment! Sunny smile.] Thank you, Tenno!

Now that you're here and we're sharing security duties, we should figure out how to split things up.

He used to handle a lot more for me than he does now. That and better information gathering at that. Not knowing things and the circumstances don't help. [Short version: Ordis did need to learn how to chill.]

Can't blame you. Being able to do things without an injury is always nice. But you're welcome.

How would you like to do that? You're the senior specialist here. [Plus he didn't know how things ran here.]

Yeah, it's really hard when you go from being able to do stuff to suddenly not being able to. Trust me, I know. We just have to be patient and help him. And tell him to calm the fuck down if it comes to that, cause sometimes you just need to be told.

Hm. I'd rather have a 50-50 split of duties and we could rotate but... if I'm not being dumb, until Beverly fixes my back we should probably do an uneven split where you get stuck with the shit that involves heavy lifting and stuff. [Sigh.] And I feel bad about that.

I understand being out of commission and not enjoying it. You'll make through it just fine. Have been from what I've seen so far. [He lets out a low laugh.] There's attempts I assure you. Frustration never helps when it comes to him.

Until you're healed, I'm fine with taking the brunt of the work. You don't need to push yourself more than you physically should with such an injury. When you're all good, fifty fifty works for me.

Aw, thanks. [She gives him a friendly little punch on the arm.]

Is there a way to kind of... short circuit him? Like when I got too upset about something back home, Maine would dump the kitten on me. Or drag me out for ice cream. Just give me something else to think about.

Okay! I can take care of the inventory and stuff then, and the delicate cleaning. Stuff I can do while I'm sitting down. You'll have to do the regular checks and testing. We've also got a crewman that doesn't know how to use projectile or beam weapons at all--Makie--so she'll need your help. I want to get her a sword eventually, but that's more of a long term project because if we're going to get some of us outfitted with melee weapons, they need to be good.

You're welcome.

Short circuit? [To be fair, kissing the cephalon had that kind of effect when he started to fuss one night.] I mean I could probably get him going on a tangent of some kind involving physics or some feat of engineering and then he sort of winds down in order to do research. Not too sure if animals would be a good thing for him. He doesn't like them much.

That sounds reasonable. I haven't taught anyone or at least not in a long time so I would be ok with that. Testing is easy as well. Make certain that everything is properly working and if improvements can be made even though this stuff could use a serious overhaul already.

It's mostly just kind of... pushing him onto a track of thought for something that makes him happy? Or at least doesn't freak him out. So stuff that he likes. I don't really know him well enough to suggest. But computer people do tend to like... math stuff. [So she's not going to be able to help with that much because math is a total mystery to her.]

I can go along with you for the first if you want on training, and offer help. If you're doing the running around that means I can sit.

Sounds like we have a plan though.

That's easier said than done sometimes. Still you aren't wrong and thank you for helping sort that out. Hopefully it would do him some good to be on this ship plus with supportive people. [Math was sometimes quite a mystery to him but an attempt can be made.]

That would be appreciated. I hope that I can live up to your expectations.

[Things are really working out here. He offers a smile and content nod before reassembling the gun in order to put it back into its storage.]

Yeah, gotta figure out the best way to help him get acquainted with the crew without overloading him. He seems like the kind who might hide in his room a lot, so I'm a little worried. Crew integration is very important for morale, and Ordis's morale is important too!

I'm sure you will. [Wrath expects great things of people in general. She's rarely disappointed.]

So I think one thing we should look into on the moon is if it's got any supplies we can use for a... back home they called them reforges, but you can do some pretty good stuff with dimensional metal printers. I'm not an engineer, but I'm hoping maybe Vision could help us come up with the machining if I can explain what I want to him. But I'd trust any kind of hand weapons we manufacture ourselves over almost anything we could pick up in a market out there. Most of it's cheap tourist shit that wouldn't hold an edge, it's really sad.

I'm pretty sure that he'd be more than content doing his job and then returning to that tablet of his and holing up in his room unless pestered over food. He deserves to know the others though. Sociability will be worked on slowly much like when he had to learn how to properly walk. Baby steps.

[He really doesn't want to let her down. Disappointment wasn't something that he wanted to be associated with her.]

That sounds almost like a foundry. That was used on the ship in order to create weaponry and other gear so that seems similar to those reforges of yours. I'd be more than willing to help with the gathering of materials and especially if that means we won't have to deal with this cheap trash any longer than we should.

We're gonna have to like... put him outside and water him like a plant or something, or he's gonna get all droopy and not know why. But yeah, baby steps are best. It's hard on computer people to get stuck in human people bodies. I know Delta told me he had a hard time with... uh... sensory overload. So he should totally get as much alone time as he needs.

Hm. Do you know how those foundry things are made? [If he knows more than her, that would probably help. She wishes she was more of a technical person, she really does.] Just wait til you see the shit on the moon, you could snap some of that stuff one handed without trying.

I think Ordis is more of a kavat than a plant. It sort of takes a slow and gentle approach when it comes to things other than bringing him some new discovery. [Imagining Ordis as a plant was hard. Especially a droopy one at that.] So try to acclimate him to things but also give him as the space and time he desires? Doesn't that seem counter productive?

Sadly no. It was built into the liset and I had to hunt down the pieces that the Grineer scavenged. If anyone knows, it would be Ordis since he maintained it. [Sorry Wrath but he's just as clueless as you.] You could say it's easy pickings then.

I don't know what a kavat is.

Hm, maybe a little. But I guess it means figuring out how much time he actually needs to be okay, and how much of it is him being a poop.

Ah well, darn. I'm sure we'll figure something out though.

It's sort of like an old Earth cat. Except it has no fur for scales instead and consumes infestation. They tend to be rather finicky creatures to deal with.

That sounds like quite the endeavor. Hopefully Ordis doesn't take advantage of it.

[He nods.] We will someday.

So it's like... a lizard cat? I don't know what infestation is, but that sounds gross. [Maybe it's like dysthrophe?] But I guess that must be useful?

You know him better than I do. [Grin.] How much of a determined poop is he?

SOrt of. It's hard to explain really. The best I can I say is that it's a modified cat that the Orokin released and sometimes can be found on derelicts. Infestation is another thing entirely and much more needing of explanations.

That's true. He can show quite the stubbornness when he desires to so I would probably go with quite a bit. [That was honestly a severe understatement.]

Infestation just sounds like it's very bad.

Very determined poop, then. Okay. Well, I'm determined too. He can't be as stubborn as my partner, so I'm ready.

It's incredibly so. I'm hopeful that something like doesn't ever exist here.

Clash of the stubborn, hm? I never got to ask much but what was your partner like? I know you miss him.

Yeah. I hope so too. I also hope there isn't dysthrophe here. There was something kind of like that on the Iskaulit, back when we first found the ship and there were still Nunilis on it. Scared the shit out of me, but it didn't affect humans.

Maine? Maine's great. He doesn't talk much. And he's huge! And grouchy. But... he's a good guy beneath it all. He's a good guy to have at your back, always. He doesn't let anything bad happen to the people he cares about.

If it's not too much of me asking, what exactly is dysthrophe? Or for that matter Nunilis? [How was he supposed to clear out an infestation without his gear?]

He sounds like a worthy partner and I can see why you miss him so much.

Dysthropes are people that got infected by the dysthrophe. It makes them mutate and get weird looking and huge and then go crazy. They eat other people, and the only way to stop them is cutting them up or blowing off their heads. It's really fucked up. The Nunilis are these aliens that built the Iskaulit. We've seen them on other planets too. They're actually really friendly, but on the Iskaulit they'd been infected with this fungus thing that basically ate their brains.

That's why the Nunilis let us keep that ship. They didn't want to risk taking it back in case putting it in hard vacuum wasn't enough to kill the fungus stuff. And that's why I started the big memorial mural in it. The people on the ship deserved better than what happened to them, but there wasn't anything we could do.

It's... really rare to find another person that really gets what kind of fucked up shit is crawling around in your head, right? I was lucky to find him.

That sounds...horrendous. Much more aggressive in infection than what the infestation sometimes does. That and well at least the infested don't eat people. Sounds like hell.

But what happened to Nunilius sounds similar to the infestation. It's not really an infection but takes over a host and controls them. I can understand why they wouldn't want the ship back. Dramatic memories like that can cause some resentment of places and the like.

Indeed it is. [He doesn't know if he's ever truly found one like her partner.]

It's... not good. If someone gets infected, you shoot 'em. It's the merciful thing to do. Cause there's no cure.

[She nods. Okay, so maybe that infestation thing is kind of here. But it could be worse.]

Someone who listens, too.