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Who: Lance Hunter and yourself, should you choose to engage!
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva
When: no time like the present!

[ the comm seems to be haphazardly leaning against something, and the image you get is crooked. a sleeping man, who almost instantly awakes with a start. no scream, mercifully, he's quite over screamer videos, and besides, it wouldn't really be that surprising under the circumstances, now, would it? his eyes dart around the room, his feet flying off the cot and touching the ground. the moment he speaks, his accent undeniably and unapologetically identifies him as an englishman. ]

Not again - [ he groans, looking around him. the first time he was knocked out and kidnapped happened because he was foolish, he trusted a friend when clearly he had overestimated the bond, bloody spies, he's had his fill of bloody spies. but this time - he has no idea what happened. one minute, he's in a pod, sailing to freedom and the next - he's in this bed. he must not have deactivated something. do they have a blasted tracker beam on these things? so paranoid! ] Oi, @therealshield, you forgot to paint your eagle - I'm gonna have to deduct your merits - [ no answer. the room really doesn't seem like anywhere his previous captors kept him in, and that's rarely a coincidence. he gets up, and the comm seems to slip off whatever it was leaning against and end up in a new position, one that shows the back of the man, as he walks towards a window. ] ...you have got to be joking.

[ and a moment later ] Bloody aliens!

[ the man comes in and out of the frame, as he's clearly examining his surroundings, before he heads back to check on what he's got by his cot, and notices the comm. picking it up, you now get a close up of his face - ] Little red light - you're either going to explode or - [ that sure looks like a camera, doesn't it? he holds it directly in front of his face. ]

Take me to your leader.

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. . . Must be quite the experience.

[ Military, then. ]

[ actually he's referring to his marriage; compared to it, serving his country was a walk in the park. ]

I've seen things. [ completely seriously. try being married to an elite spy. actually don't - don't do that. it can only cause you pain. ]

I can believe that.

[ His best friend runs the entire military. It's never easy. ]

[ the whole thing? yeah, yeah that would be a bitch. see, hunter prefers to leave all that pesky command business to other people and just follow orders...when he feels like it. or do his own thing, when he doesn't. ]

I imagine there's a certain standard of entrance. Must be this interesting to be worth the effort of kidnapping - teleportation can't be cheap.

They've been doing it for a while though. Whose to say they haven't subsidized costs?

How many people are in this fleet? Unless it's several billions, they have some selection process in place.

Probably.

I don't have the analytic mind to understand the workings of a corporation.

[ And he'll pass on that permanently. ]

A major point in your favor.

[ he may be his favorite person here so far, besides fitz but friends from home do feel like a bit of a cheat. ]

Hopefully I'll collect even more.

If you want to seek my approval I certainly won't stop you. A good cup of tea and a stiff drink would be a great start.

I'm afraid I can't arrange that from where I am. But we can meet up sometime. I'll even let you vent.

You might even earn your paragon title if you keep this up. I need your frequency to get in touch, correct?

[ He's more rogue than paragon, unfortunately. ]

The communicator should automatically log that in.

[ interesting. he'll have to look through it later. sorry yuri, you might get random messages as he's testing it out throughout the boring marsiva week. ]

So like a phone, that's handy. Is the name pre-saved or do I need to edit it in? [ he'd rather not have to memorize numbers ]

I haven't needed to add anything extra and I'm pretty terrible with technology.

I imagine they want us to communicate, so everything is top of the line.

[ terrible with technology? be still, his heart! ]

Lowell, this may be the start of a beautiful friendship.

But I haven't even bought drinks yet.

Hence the conditional.

It's still way ahead where I thought it would be.

You should work on your self esteem then, humility only looks good on paper, in real life it's highly unattractive.

I might be a lost cause there.

Certainly, with that attitude.

How should I shape up, then?

For one - avoid the self-help section of any library or book store if we got any of those around here, they're nothing but rubbish. For two - watch and learn.

[ confidence he's always got, even when he's faking it. ]

I hope I get to watch all day long.

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