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Who: Garrett
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Around now! A+ description.

[Garrett is not about to completely come out of the bag with the vampire thing. For one, he's spent a very hefty portion of his life hiding it — and for another, he doesn't want to be burned at a stake, barbaric and outdated and annoyingly Salem as that is (he was around for that kind of mindset long after the trials ended, and really, entertaining the idea of burning lovely women simply because they're exotic minds?)]

You know, the swimming test for witches was the the stupidest thing I've ever heard growing up. Frenzied morons would basically throw a suspected witch in a lake and if she floated, she was a witch. And if she sank like a stone, she wasn't. But what is the person if they doggy paddle in a mad panic? A witch who didn't learn to swim?

[There's a heavy humor in his voice, the kind one picks up with regards to death, to dark humor, and if there were such a thing as a verbal eyeroll, it'd be here.]

But this place! Fascinating to see so many of you open about your supernatural talents. Your unholy inhumaness, should you self-subscribe to such a dark description. As someone from such a boring, uneventful world, I'm just excited at the idea of a ghost on a roadside; no, we're pretty boring in hindsight, compared to you lot. I bet you all have some interesting tales to tell. And maybe some tails under those ugly ship-standard uniforms. Is it strange, being so open, or is that also a normality in your world?

I'm stranded aboard a ship floating through infinite space; humor me while I slowly die of boredom.

[ALSO I'M GONNA START GETTING HUNGRY????

But that is for another day to worry. His throat is only similar to human strep, at the moment.

Gross.]

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You wanna survive in my world, you disappear. Witch hunts never went away, not really. But most people here ain't like that. There's enough of us that know what it's like.

Edited 2016-12-03 01:49 (UTC)

Isn't that the way of the world. Disappearing is a handy skill.

You have the loveliest voice. My apologies for not focusing on the more dire part of this conversation, but I'm stricken. La Louisiane, the child of Mississippi?

[I REMEMBER WHEN YOU BECAME A STATE, LOUISIANA. VERY PROUD.

... He's traveled there quite often, you see. Mardi Gras is a highlight, can't miss it.]

Oh uh... [Well that throws her somewhat. Few people compliment her on her accent.] Thank you, yes. I'm from New Orleans.

[Or, the way she says it, Nawlins, all together.]

[He claps his hands together, so easy to abandon his concern for where the fuck he even is right now; instead, he's gonna just enjoy the familiar company. Because being from Nawlins is familiarity enough!!]

I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.

Nothing quite so enjoyable as New Orleans, though I love her dearly.

[Truly, he's not sure the town he's actually from anymore, though he's pretty sure it was close enough. It's harder to remember the little details of one's life when vampirism makes it all a confounding blur. He had a half-sister, sweet, smart girl. Otherwise so very homeless, a wandering type of vagrant with dead parents and a pleasure for moving place to place born from what began as misery.]

I visit your home often, though. It's hard to stay away long.

You do? [Her voice gets brighter, excited as always to talk to people who know her home.] Isn't it the most beautiful city? 'Course I'd say so though, I've never been anywhere else. Until I got brought to outer space, I mean.

It's wonderful. A true marvel. People who haven't graced her land is missing out.

It's quite a jump though, isn't it? From the bayou to this big starry beyond.

Yeah, it was real crazy at first but I've been here a year now so it's not so bad. Safer than home at any rate.

A whole year! They've kept you that long?

What benefit do these kidnappers have in stealing away all these people?

Dunno. Guess they make money off of us or something. Personally, I don't really care one way or the other. Whether they meant to or not, they've done me a real service.

Well! I can't dispute that! Mutual gain is not necessarily a bad thing.

Though I'm not so sure I can reach the same agreements. I've got a very important engagement back home that would be awful to miss out on.

Edited 2016-12-17 17:02 (UTC)

Everyone says when you go back, it'll be like you never left. Don't know how true that is though.

True enough. I'll have to see if the theory holds up, whenever this place grows bored of me.

I hope it does, for you.

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