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[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[girlverine]

Why?

[No Laura stay out of the line of fire!]

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[passingthrough]

[Hey you. She was planning to check in with Laura with Logan's disappearance. She wanted to do it for awhile, but she wasn't really ready to talk about it again either, so this works. There's a soft smile.]

Why what?

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[girlverine]

Why are you doing this?

[Laura could admit she had a better handle on relationships than she used to, sometimes, sort of, but the idea of just...handing out dates didn't make any sense to her.]

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[passingthrough]

The match up thing? I was just bored like I said. Seemed...cheerful? Who couldn't use some cheer, right? [Careful, this next look may be more meaningful.]

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[girlverine]

[She isn't sure what to say to that. She's been trying to focus on anything but how she felt.]

But they...will be strangers.

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[passingthrough]

Yes, but I already have a date so that's really their problem.

...Or yours? Did you want a date, Laura?

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[girlverine]

[She made a soft, uncomfortable noise.]

I do not need a...date.

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[passingthrough]

I didn't ask if you needed one. I asked if you wanted one.

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[girlverine]

[The problem with questions like that was that they assumed an answer was available. Dating wasn't really in Laura's worldview. She thought maybe it would've been, someday, with Julian but that...had ended. And then there was Jubilee, but that had been different too. A connection but...]

[But Logan had told her she had to live her own life. For herself. Make her own choices. Except now he was gone, and Storm was gone, and Laura was alone. Again. So where did what they wanted for her come into play?]

[Finally she just let out a breath.]

I don't know.

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[passingthrough]

Well, I could tell you who might be available and then you could decide. I mean, it's not like anyone would be forcing anyone on a date. [Definitely not Kitty.]

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[girlverine]

[Damn it, what was she doing...]

Fine.

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[passingthrough]

So... [This is a little awkward, isn't it?] I feel like I should already know this but just guys [she was pretty certain guys were in the mix] or girls too? [If Nightingale hadn't told her she was only interested in women she might not have thought to ask.]

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[girlverine]

I don't care.

[At least that one was easy to answer.]

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[experiencepoints]

[Well, really pretty and looks tough, this is probably the one Kitty was talking about.]

Hi. You must be Laura?

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[girlverine]

Yes. [This was presumably the girl Kitty was talking about. Okay. She could deal with this.]

...Hi.

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[experiencepoints]

[Okay, Nightingale. You can do this. Be cool. Do not fuck this up.]

Hey. I'm Nightingale. Kitty said you were looking for a date for the masquerade?

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[girlverine]

[Was she? She had sort of agreed to it. Even if she hadn't expected anything to come of it.]

I suppose so.

[She doesn't mean to sound so unenthused, Nightingale. It's just that she's unenthused.]

...It was her idea.

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[experiencepoints]

[... okay, well. That does make things a little more awkward.]

... Did you not want to go?

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[girlverine]

No. I do.

[She kind of wilts a bit, drawing in a breath.]

I am not very good at...this.

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[experiencepoints]

Don't worry, then. I'm not either, honestly.

[Laura having expressed interest does help her calm down a bit, but now she's just sort of internally flailing for something to talk about. What are you even supposed to do in a situation like this?]

What ship are you on?

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[girlverine]

[That's a little reassuring, honestly. She knew people who were 'so good' at it, and it left her a little uncertain. It was one of those things she thought she should know how to do, but didn't.]

I am on the Red Fish.

[She had been planning a transfer, but so much for that.]

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[experiencepoints]

Red Fish... I don't think I know anyone from that ship. What's it like?

[Nightingale's social skills are... stunted, to say the least. But she's pretty sure she's learned enough to handle small talk here. People are generally friends with their crews, right? And people like talking about their friends? It's a good way to get to know someone, right?

Socializing is much easier when she can treat it like a puzzle with simple strategies, at least.]

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[girlverine]

[Asking Laura to describe a place and the people in it. Hm. She seems to think the question over for probably a bit longer than necessary.]

Some of them are dangerous. The ship itself seems to be similar to others. I have not seen many.

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[experiencepoints]

... Dangerous as in very strong and well-prepared, or dangerous as in poor impulse control?

[IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.]

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[girlverine]

Yes.

[She is so unhelpful.]

I do not think they will be actively attempting anything, though.