Kitty Pryde (
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driftfleet2017-03-02 09:49 am
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Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Open
Action: Tourist, or find her later on the Twin Roses or Iskaulit
When: March 2
[Kitty's morning on the Tourist did not go as planned. It's another hour or so before she makes this announcement. She doesn't even know what happened to the minutes in between. But she's all business when she looks into the communicator. No hiding behind text.]
Winn Schott is in a coma. [Blunt. Direct. Maybe she should have called a few people individually first like Kara, but she wasn't going to make it through this if she did that.] He always has projects going, so they're going to be late. If something is important let me know and I'll see if it's something I can work on in his place.
I already fed his slug today, but someone on the Tourist should take care of that until lazy wakes up. [The mild insult to cover feelings is so classic Kitty, circa home it may not even fit with what people of the fleet know of her. That Kitty had walls around her walls, but those are gone now.]
He's always checking on ship systems on the Twin Roses since we managed to merge and still not get an engineer out of the deal, so if anyone else can help us out with that in the meantime let me know. I'll also be working on the new dance studio later today if anyone wants to help. [Because this mission is almost complete and she needs another one so she can hold it together. Can't fall apart if she's sanding down floors.]
Broadcast: Open
Action: Tourist, or find her later on the Twin Roses or Iskaulit
When: March 2
[Kitty's morning on the Tourist did not go as planned. It's another hour or so before she makes this announcement. She doesn't even know what happened to the minutes in between. But she's all business when she looks into the communicator. No hiding behind text.]
Winn Schott is in a coma. [Blunt. Direct. Maybe she should have called a few people individually first like Kara, but she wasn't going to make it through this if she did that.] He always has projects going, so they're going to be late. If something is important let me know and I'll see if it's something I can work on in his place.
I already fed his slug today, but someone on the Tourist should take care of that until lazy wakes up. [The mild insult to cover feelings is so classic Kitty, circa home it may not even fit with what people of the fleet know of her. That Kitty had walls around her walls, but those are gone now.]
He's always checking on ship systems on the Twin Roses since we managed to merge and still not get an engineer out of the deal, so if anyone else can help us out with that in the meantime let me know. I'll also be working on the new dance studio later today if anyone wants to help. [Because this mission is almost complete and she needs another one so she can hold it together. Can't fall apart if she's sanding down floors.]
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There are no shops in Adstringendum, no ways to replenish food with money. The town is a ruin. To put meat on the table, I have to hunt. Some of the wildlife is... quite large.
[But it's still not a fight, even if the only scar she carries is from one of those hunts. It didn't count. She was having an existential crisis at the time.]
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[She leaves it there. The darker version.]
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I hadn't... The raiders were the first humanish lives I'd taken since I was home. So, about two years.
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My father and brother taught me when I was very young, just for a while. It was probably an indulgence for them. [Before she grew old enough that her studies had to be turned to more ladylike areas. Samurai wife.]
After that, I trained myself. I had not much else to do. Strong martial skill ran in my family's bloodline. So they said.
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...in my time, a girl child on the streets with a weapon will be called upon any number of times to defend herself. I did not lack for opponents.
[It was still training.]
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[She hesitates.]
My mother and I were cast out when I was ten. There are few places to go for the outcast wife of a samurai in my time. She ended up... becoming a prostitute to keep us both fed.
There is no place for a small child in a brothel. So I spent most of my time wandering Edo and its surrounds until I was... old enough.
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Instead of hugging, she reaches out with a hand, easily refused.] I don't know what to say.
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It's not necessary to say anything. That life is long past. [It's not a secret either, though she could regret bringing the conversation down, especially when she's here to keep Kitty company. Makie fails at the cheerful support thing.
So she carries on, just to add a hopefully more uplifting ending--] My mother was a very strong woman, and I'll always be proud of her for her choices.
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I'm glad, and of yours too I hope. [At least she hopes Makie hasn't done anything she's ashamed of. It makes self doubt all too easy when you have. Kitty should know.]
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We should... you should probably show me what we need to do here.
[Point of fact, Makie's never been proud of anything she's done. Completely the opposite.]
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Thank you for coming here. Doing this for me. [The distraction more than the work. But also the opening up under any circumstances.] I didn't have any control over where I got shuffled and I like the Tourist a lot. Obviously Winn is there, but you and the rest of the crew are what keep me with our ship. [Winn may be the person she's most obvious about loving, but he's far from the only one.]
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I doubt anyone begrudges the time the two of you spend together. Is he satisfied on the Tourist? [Unspoken-- maybe he could always come to the Twin Roses.]
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He's not from the same world as you, is he...?
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We hope to go there together someday. Somehow. [She knows how impossible that sounds.]
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I know that sounds odd, but there are a few of us here that should... be able to travel between worlds, once we leave the Fleet.
[Look she's trying to be helpful.]
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