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driftfleet2017-03-03 11:56 pm
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2017-03-03 11:56 pm
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Just Keeping Swimming | March Planet Mingle
Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on Mafik
When: The month of March
[Welcome to Mafik, the water world! Hope you brought your best swimming gear and don't have a paralyzing fear of water, because that's all that's here! So get out those wet suits and enjoy life under the sea!
In other words, it's a mingle! ]
> System Information
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on Mafik
When: The month of March
[Welcome to Mafik, the water world! Hope you brought your best swimming gear and don't have a paralyzing fear of water, because that's all that's here! So get out those wet suits and enjoy life under the sea!
In other words, it's a mingle! ]
> System Information
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I don't really think waiting for the next planet is the best option. [She'd rather not get into it now but she doesn't see how delaying it would be any better.] I'll trust you won't let me drown.
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[And a year is a short span of time compared to the twenty she was part of Immortan Joe's entourage.]
[But that does make her think of a question ...] If you can think of anything I can do to be less, ah, intimidating? I'd be willing to hear it.
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[Kaidan leans back against the wall, hands clasped together in a thoughtful way]
I...get there are things you don't want to talk about...[With a slight tone of humor-] going by the number of times you've almost hit me for asking. But...it can help to share. That's part of that trust I was talking about before.
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Maybe.
Spend so much time ignoring it I don't ... really know how to talk about it.
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He makes a thoughtful noise and stares down at his shoes. It's as much for him as is to keep her feeling not quite under the spotlight.]
Start small? Maybe...something about the Citadel? What it was like.
[He rolls a shoulder in a lazy shrug]
Trust works two ways too. If there's anything you want to know...
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The Citadel. Three rock towers in the middle of a wasteland. It's over deep-earth water, which means its got gardens, it's got trade. Nearest settlements were Gastown and Bulletfarm. [She's figuring Kaidan can guess what the major productions for those settlements were.]
You? What was your home like? [One-for-one, seemed like a good trade off.]
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Home was...good. I lived in Vancouver. Big city by the coast up north. Crowded, but beautiful. I got pretty lucky, all things considered. [It feels arrogant to not admit that much.]
But if you consider Earth as a whole home? That's a little more complicated.
[But that does give him a thought] Is it? Earth, I mean? Is that your world?
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[Another pause. This was the first time she'd really spoken his name here, or really thought about him in any passing fashion.] Immortan Joe controlled ... everything. Strictly. His wives - breeders - water, mother's milk. He had an army of half-life warboys who were diseased from the broken world and who's best hope was to die on the Fury Road. He fed them stories that if they died in his service they would be exalted and live again by his side in Valhalla.
[There's no hiding the pain and bitterness in her words, and she stops to reach her flesh hand up to press against her temples. It's more information that she'd wanted to let go of, but once she started talking it just sort of fell out. Things she hadn't ever voiced, had tried not to think about. Nux and Angharad and the Wretched caught under Joe's heel. He was done now, dead and gone, and hopefully those remaining would be able to shape a better world, but he'd left his scars.]
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Sounds a bit like a cult.
[He glances at her, face sympathetic but...wary. He has a feeling he's treading around the edge of conversational quicksand but he'd meant what he'd said: sometimes it did help to talk about it. Sometimes]
And where did you fit in to all of this?
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As a full-life, I was able to fight my way up to Imperator, something of a General, I think? So I got a certain amount of power among the warboys and other Imperators. They called me 'bag of nails'.
I was able to use that position to steal a War Rig and smuggle the Wives out. It's ... a long story.
[And that's where she'll leave it.]
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Either way, it sounds like you earned it. You're tough...maybe not entirely by choice...but that doesn't change anything and nothing can change that. Even not knowing how to swim. [His smile turns lightly teasing]
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Still, wouldn't hurt to learn. [Especially if there's someone willing to teach her.]
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Not exactly. They're flotation devices...for beginners.
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[Look what you did, Kaidan, she cracked a smile.]
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Well, it might help you learn, yeah. Tiny inflatable arm bands won't help with the tough image, though. But maybe that's what we're going for.
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[He grins for a second at the mental image that's been kicking around in his mind since he'd said it.]
We'll probably have to settle for hanging off the side of the shuttle though.
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I'll just have to settle for you being a good enough teacher I don't drown.