Windrose June Mingle!

[passingthrough]

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.]

Comments

[ownassets]

( Oh. Well- )

You won't get a good game from me.

( But she's sitting anyway )

[passingthrough]

Are you suffering from Hank's "I can't play chess because Charles is better" disease?

[ownassets]

I haven't played that much, even with Charles. We were too busy at the time.

[passingthrough]

What were you up to back then? Hank mentioned he knew you, but I didn't hear how that happened. You're human, aren't you? [Gawd, Kitty, you can't just ask people if they're human.]

[ownassets]

I am. ( And it's kind of a fair question. Also the first time that Moira's ever been asked it ) I work for the CIA. A man named Shaw - a mutant - became a threat. I looked for an expert in mutation.

[passingthrough]

Shaw? Sebastian Shaw? [That would be a name she knows.] And Hank was your expert? [With Charles dead in her world he doesn't come to mind as readily for things.]

[ownassets]

( Moira starts to nod, and then pauses at Kitty's second statement )</small No, Charles was. He didn't know Hank until we'd met.

[passingthrough]

Right. That makes sense too I guess. I forgot he's expert-y. What was Shaw's end game?

[ownassets]

World War III. ( Thankfully they'd stopped that - stopped Shaw. Even if he had been killed, and Erik had nearly done something as terrible )

[passingthrough]

Oh, villains and their thirst for destruction. Was he hoping to get more out of it than death at least? Power? Wealth? A ball cap that says, "I started WWIII and all I got was this lousy hat?"

[ownassets]

I didn't get to ask him before he died.

( Was murdered. Same difference )

[passingthrough]

Then I'm definitely going to go with the hat thing. [Should she be making light of someone's death? Meh, he's an ass.] There was a prominent Moira in my world. Looked like of like you except older. [Which makes sense.]

[ownassets]

Did you know her well?

( Her, not me. It was weird )

[passingthrough]

I never met her. She was on the Human High Council in Europe. I read files on her. I'm sure she's read files on me.

[ownassets]

I haven't met you either. I guess that puts us on equal ground here.

[passingthrough]

I guess it does. And I guess you're not married to Trask? [She already knows from Hank. She's just curious about the reaction she'll get.]

[ownassets]

( There's a pause, and Moira doesn't know whether this is supposed to be a good thing or not )

I don't know who that is.

[passingthrough]

Ask someone from home. They'll give you their version. He looked different where I come from. [Taller for one.] He worked on the sentinels though. In both worlds I think.

[ownassets]

He isn't a good person.

( Not if Kitty doesn't want to just tell her about him )

[passingthrough]

I'm not sending him any gift baskets anytime soon, but people from your world react a little more intensely.

[ownassets]

How are things so different?

[passingthrough]

Apocalypse rose to power in my world. Person, not the biblical concept. Not that they don't have a lot in common. [of course there is a difference that happened earlier than that one.]

[ownassets]

What did he do?

[passingthrough]

He believes in survival of the fittest and that humans aren't fit. Genocide. Forced-labor camps. Human experimentation. Hitler's greatest hits turned up to eleven. There were also nuclear attacks. Latin America is mostly gone now. South America and Africa are largely irradiated.