[snuggle up real close everyone]

[cephalon]

Who: The fair crew and visitors of the Windrose
Action: Aboard the Windrose
When: May

[It's a mingle! Make friendly everyone~]

Comments

[pain_train]

I'm glad you've got family here, then. [It seems like such an abstract concept to her. She doesn't remember having family. The closest was the army, and... yeah.] Yeah, I think he could use more friends too. He's been integrating pretty well with the crew I think, once he actually started talking to people. Maybe he just needs a little more settling in time, since it's pretty different here.

[passingthrough]

Yeah. I needed several months back in the prison. Took me a little time to relax here too after the move. [And it's not like she's issue free.] And he was in it longer than I was.

[pain_train]

[She nods. That sure makes sense.]

Anything I should be doing to help?

[passingthrough]

I think just be honest and authentic with him which I have a hard time picturing you any other way.

[pain_train]

I don't know why I wouldn't do those things. He's my friend. I'm not gonna lie to him.

[Let's be real, she doesn't lie to anyone.]

Do you... Do you know why he doesn't like Hank? I don't know if it's something I should ask him about.

[passingthrough]

Mmm, that one's easy. I wanted to throw him out of an airlock when he arrived. Not now. He's very different from the version of him from our world, but that's a hard thing to come to terms with. He was pretty bad back home.

[pain_train]

Oh. Okay. So it's not fair for Kurt to not like him, but Kurt can't really help it. He needs time. And I won't bother him about it.

[passingthrough]

You got it. And for what it's worth, Hank is really really understanding about it. Probably too understanding. It's really annoying how easy he is to like. I was hoping to go for neutral avoidance. [And somehow she ended up as friends.]

[pain_train]

I need to like... Try to talk to Hank when I'm not being firm with him about his stupid crewman. I think I freaked him out.

[passingthrough]

Oh, right. How did that go? And he's easily freaked out. [Easily, she says. She was looking at him all murderously when he arrived.]

[pain_train]

[She shrugs.] I told him if his crewman sets foot on my ship, I'm sending him back in a fucking sandwich bag. Hank was smart enough to be able to tell I wasn't joking.

[passingthrough]

Well, now that just makes me wish we had sandwiches.

[pain_train]

Wanna go make some?

[passingthrough]

With protein gel and wafer thins or something? Meh.

[pain_train]

Those sound like good sandwiches to me, but... Okay.

[Guess Kitty is picky.]

[passingthrough]

I'd probably think so too if I'd come here directly after home. The last place had all kinds of fresh food all the time. It was amazing. None of it was real, but it tasted real. Felt real. I miss the food.

[pain_train]

Did you have to cook it? I don't really get cooking.

I think the food here is really good. I mean, I liked it when Maine would go get noodles for us or something, but it wasn't a big deal.

[passingthrough]

There were actually robots who could cook for us, but yeah, I did sometimes. There were also a few inmates who wanted to be chefs. But hey, if you think it's good that's...great. [Weird and confusing and she thinks it might have something to do with the holes in your head if she's very honest.]

[pain_train]

Robots cooking sounds cool.

I don't know. Like after eating nothing but ration packs all my life, I don't know. Fancy shit is weird. I just mostly ate ration bars after I got turfed because I didn't know what else to do.

[passingthrough]

It got kind of routine after awhile, but I was impressed with the technology there. You were in the military a long time, weren't you?

[pain_train]

Twenty-five years.

[Shrug.]

It's the only thing I remember.

[passingthrough]

I think that qualifies then. Really nothing at all before that?

[pain_train]

[She hates that question sometimes, but being upset at Kitty would be unfair. It's not her fault. So she just shrugs.]

The first thing I remember is the battle where the previous lieutenant of Wrath Platoon died.

[passingthrough]

Did they do something to you that day?

[pain_train]

It was a battle. We took out a heavy gun emplacement that belonged to Nodis. Before the plague. I was in Envy Platoon. Wrath Platoon got hit hard. Lieutenant took a shell direct. I got field promoted.

[Is that what Kitty was asking?]