driftfleet | Judgement has been delivered. (Video)

Who: Claire/Lightning Farron & Open.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: No - unless you're on the Marsiva.
When: Evening.

(Maybe she has revoked calling herself "Lightning" too soon. Claire blows out an impressed and amused breath as she searches her new quarters. In space. That little detail is hard to forget as she walks by windows clearly showing the stars, bright and twinkling.

Pausing by one said window, a hand on her hip, she admires them. It's hard not to, really. They will always be beautiful even if the idea of their creation and the gods in general are...complicated. At least she knows Bhunivelze isn't responsible for this little interlude.

Flipping open her communicator, assessing the buttons and their various functions, she gives anyone watching a small sigh. Who can blame her, really? She thought she would get a longer break from reality bending oddities.)

Do I look familiar to anyone? (She isn't fond of just giving away her name to a bunch of potentially odd strangers. Unless...

Are we really back to that? Tilting her head, she blows her pink fringe out of her eyes.) My name is Lightning and I don't remember signing up for this voyage.

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Is this situation normal?

(Leave your pretty hair alone, Jill!)

So you're ready for a fight?

Good.

They're never easy. We'll need resolve.

New people coming here? Yes. The situation itself? I hadn't experienced it before coming here.

[ It's complicated, alright? She used to be a natural brunette, you know. ]

Any time, day or night. If there's one thing you can count on, it's that I'll have your back in a fight.

...well, within reason. As much as I'd like to say I'm that honorable, even I have my limits.

[ Trust is what builds and pushes those limits, though. ]

I was speaking rhetorically. In a weird situation, weird questions are expected.

(Lightning is fine with interesting haircuts, but dying? Bleaching? Definitely not. ~~The color is just about the only connection she still has with her parents. Well, one parent in particular, but you get the idea.~~)

Another hero? (Those words are affectionate.) I guess they need those in space too.

Exactly the reason why I couldn't expect it to be rhetorical. After all, I might know some important detail, right? Never know when it comes to new places and new people.

Don't know how common space travel or anything is for you, but for me it's pretty out there (pun actually intended). So any question is warranted, I think.

[ Jill just wants her hair to look the way it's supposed to. There are other parts to it, as well. Control, autonomy. It's something after everything that's happened that she can control, however small it may be. It's like washing her hands of him. ]

Ha ha, well, I wouldn't call myself one but I do typically align myself with justice and trying to do the right thing. Someone has to fight where others can't and I'm perfectly capable of it.

I guess you make a good point. I am interested in those important details. I can't help but feel like I won't have much time to learn them before I have to put them to use.

(That's how it goes. She is transported off by a god or some other entity and she has to learn on her feet.)

It's not as strange to me. I've seen worlds die and I've seen worlds born.

(She has been around.)

I am too.

Unfortunately, I think most of those "important details" are the kind you don't realize until later. The minute ones that don't mean anything on their own.

At least as far as I've gathered.

[ She's a little better prepared. Still trying to shake off the PTSD, act like everything is fine -- because it is -- and deal with the aftermath of Kijuju. What she needed to really heal were the people she cared about. ]

Kind of new to the multiple inhabitable world thing, myself.

Then we might just get along. :)

Which is why we're perpetually learning on our feet.

(It sucks, but there is only so much preparing you can do when you're launched into space and informed that you are part of a fleet that visits distant worlds.)

You'll get the hang of it. Think of it like you're visiting another city. Customs change, languages shift, but we can adapt.

I hope so.

Nothing to get your ass into gear like lighting a fire underneath it, though! I mean I'd definitely lean toward a preference for a more easing-into it all, but what can you do.

Well, I'm always on the move back home. Typically cross borders a lot. Been here for a few months and I'm already settling into it, which I'm not sure I'm happy about but I'd rather be prepared than not.

We're prone to making mistakes we wouldn't otherwise with a better understanding. But maybe that isn't as entertaining.

(What's the point if there isn't a good show?)

I agree. I don't mind settling in...for a little while. Then I want to be on my way. The future has waited long enough.

Could be either way, depending on the audience. The average person does seem to prefer happy endings, though, so we've at least got that on our side!

Ha, my thoughts exactly.

[ He's waited long enough. That's what she thinks, though. ]

Happy endings after how many tragedies? Stories are boring if there are no conflicts - and the bigger the conflict, the better it resonates.

It sounds like you have something to look forward to?

Story-wise, yes. People who think that only struggles and tragedies make the good things in life better are the kind of people who always need drama. Fiction isn't the same as reality. Boredom isn't so bad.

Got the party to end all parties with my name on it. But that's just the filling. The substance is the people.

[ Person. ]

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