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[seanced]

Who: Winnie Davids
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: S.S. Bishop
When: now!

[the face that greets the network looks a little relieved to have figured out the communicator, and her eyes light up, albeit briefly, before she looks around. She mutters as she brushes the confetti out of her hair]

They don't really warn you when you're going to be moved, do they . . .

[she clears her throat and turns her attention back to the screen]

Um, h-hi, I'm Winnie and - okay, being in space is kind of really cool, but - could someone answer a few questions for me? A-And tell me how I can go back home? I really can't stay here, I was kind of - busy.

[what an understatement. She looks around again, then turns the camera to the pudding desserts]

And if anyone wants some of these, I'm on the - Bishop? I don't, uh - I'm not really hungry.

Comments

[airily]

Sure. Seraphim, Shepherds, humans, weird alien guys...

[seanced]

. . . and it's okay to - be open about it? Like, I-I won't get in trouble?

[airily]

Sure. Why would you get into trouble?

[seanced]

That's what I was told - back home, I mean. Because humans can't know things like me a-actually exist, because it's dangerous.

[airily]

Well, plenty of humans know I exist now... When they can see me.

[seanced]

You can't make yourself visible?

[airily]

Nah. It's down to them to have the ability to see seraphim - not much I can do about it.

[seanced]

That sounds like a pain . . .

[airily]

Nah, it's kinda fun when they can't see me but they can hear me.

[seanced]

. . . I guess haunting people is kind of a little fun.

[airily]

See, there you go. Gotta look on the bright side.

[seanced]

[everyone keeps telling her that]

Mmm. I'm not very good at it, though.

[airily]

No better time to start.

[seanced]

I'll . . . try, I guess.

[airily]

[ And all Zaveid does is go to wrap an arm around her shoulder, grinning. ]

Then there's no problem!

[seanced]

[what even. She blinks a little widely up at him]

I-I guess not?

[airily]

Great! So, we can eat the pudding now, huh?

[seanced]

Ah - yeah, go ahead.

[airily]

[ He steps around her, grabbing a pudding and moving to settle back to lean against a door. ]

So. What's your augment?

[seanced]

[she finds somewhere to lean as well, crossing her arms]

It's - um, it's engineering.

[airily]

Huh, don't think I've met an engineering before.

[ Not that he's asked the others what their augments are, but... ]

I'm Communications.

[seanced]

I don't know why they made me engineering - I don't know anything about it. Aside from, um, what the augment tells me.

[she was going to go to school for literature, not engineering. She couldn't be furthest from being qualified]

What does Communications do?

[airily]

Yeah, I didn't know anything about anything until I realised this thing was telling me.

[ He's literally a Seraph. Who has never touched technology like this before. Alas. ]

Protocols, scanning, repair and maintenance of the devices, reports... It's all kinda boring.

[seanced]

I don't know, it doesn't sound that boring . . .

[says the girl who marvels over new technology]

[airily]

I bet you've seen this kinda stuff before, though, huh?