Windrose June Mingle!

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Who: SS Windrose + Visitors
Broadcast: Unlikely
Action: SS Windrose
When: June — anytime!

[Now featuring bathroom rank II for all your bathtub and and additional ten minutes of water per hour needs! We also have more and faster shuttles! Just last month we made it to actual double-sized beds for all your double-sized fun. Special features include a hanging medicinal herb garden in the cargo bay complete with bacon-flavored kelp and Officer Snuggles the resident security fox!

Please enjoy your stay. Unless you're The Stalker. There's a sandwich bag waiting for you.]

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So, bad memories of that or nostalgia? [What kind of reminding experience was it?]

[precedented]

[ He hums. ]

Both, I suppose. I've told you before, I never was young. I've never felt young. Even when I lost my memories, I felt old in my bones.

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Do you regret that?

[precedented]

If I harbor regrets, they will overwhelm me. There are certain things I cannot afford anymore. Certain privileges that I have revoked.

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Well, I fully support non-overwhelment. [Totally a word.] But the Loki memory loss had an impact?

[precedented]

It did.

[ He hesitates. He doesn't want to put Kitty in a difficult position. Loki wishes to hide their connection and while Leto hates to deceive, he has no reason to go against it. ]

I don't like being forgotten. I know it will happen and has happened. But it feels too soon.

. . . I'm not ready.

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Oh. [Softly. And she reaches for his hand. Hands require squeezing in these moments.] These places make that all too common, don't they? [And if he already has a history with it in his regular life all the harder. Not so far off from her issues with losing people. At home it was largely to death, but in the prison and the fleet people can simply vanish. She doesn't read anything too Loki-specific into it. After all, he's dating Rogue. But she doesn't know what kind of relationship Leto may have had with another version of Loki before or friendship with this one either. Multidimensional traps make for complicated relationships.]

[precedented]

[ The touch, as always, surprises him. The wormskin hisses quietly. ]

They do. I thought myself prepared but perhaps I was fooling myself.

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It's hard to know how something will hit you. [It occurs to her that this might call for more than a hand squeeze and she moves closer to upgrade to a hug instead.]

[precedented]

[ It surprises him briefly, before he relaxes. ]

I'm used to hits of all kinds. But the ones close to my heart, I have no guard for.

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Look at you being more like the rest of us than you even admit. [Because that's a pretty common ailment and one that can really suck.] It's why hugs were invented.

[precedented]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

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You mean other than because of the part where you already know everything?

[precedented]

[ He smiles ]

Other than that. I am still human after all.

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You are. This is a good point to remember. Pain isn't the most fun reminder of it, but at least it has that use. [She pulls back from the hug and gives him a soft smile.]

[precedented]

It does. I should not have dismissed it so easily.

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I'm glad I could life coach you through this. [Lightly teasing.] That will be 20 credits. [More heavily teasing.]

[precedented]

[ He smiles faintly. ]

I'll pay you back later.

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I'll put it on your tab. Now, you beat me at chess the last two times, so this time I think you should try beating me at tic tac toe instead. Mix it up.

[precedented]

You'll have to remind me of the rules. It's been a long time for me and I'm very old.

[passingthrough]

Can I make them up as we go to ensure I win?

[precedented]

Certainly, if I get to make up a few of my own.

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This is going to be an interesting game by the time we're done, isn't it? You're on.

[precedented]

I believe that is the point of most games.

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More or less. You remember the truth and dare element of Tic Tac Toe, right? [You know, the one she just made up.]