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Y'All Need to Dream of Dancing Fish

Who: Katie McCoy & you
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit or Vanquish
When: 27 September.

[Because it's a matter of survival for the fae, Katie learned to deal with her own nightmares very early on. It's one of those issues when your existence straddles the line between the mundane world and the dream one and you see both at once. It can be fun. It can be beautiful. It can also kind of suck ass.

What happened to the planet below is still a source of roiling nausea for her, but she is by far not the only one dreaming of it now.

In one sense, it's good that the scale of destruction is so vast that the human subconscious has difficulty replicating it as echoes in the confined space of the ships themselves, but it doesn't stop her from catching glimpses of horrified faces in the corner of her eye. Ghostly echoes of copper-skinned victims before their death. Corridors suddenly filling with flame and screams. See, that one's jarring as hell and she has difficulty pretending she can't see it. It's enough that she excuses herself from polite company and locks herself in the Vanquish's personnel room, a ball of wool in her hands and a twitchy cat slinking at her heels. Licorice can see it all, too. That's the problem with getting too close to the fae. She wonders idly if Sam is having issues.

She can't exactly make an announcement to demand everyone get over it already. You can't get over something like this. It's healthy to go through that grief. But if a corridor happens to fill with fire while she's in it, she'll burn. And it's her job to try and curb this kind of thing, the way she ... totally didn't do that in Bath. Oh, well.

She does what she can.]

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Would anyone like a dream catcher? [She holds up a contraption made from baby blue wool and shells, shaking it a little. It looks decidedly average.] Personally speaking, I've always found the ones I didn't make myself far more useful. But you could always try them out and see what happens. Might help with the nightmares none of you are having.

Speaking of non-issues, I suppose this is what being a personnel officer is all about. I really do need my Doctor Is In sign, don't I?

[Decidedly average-looking or not, the dream catchers will reek of magic to anyone who can detect that sort of thing. And they'll work on the nastier nightmares people have until the magic runs down.

She'll be mostly in her personnel room on the Vanquish because these things take time to make, though she'll visit the Iskaulit later to hang out in the fox park and recharge.]

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Oh, fun and sparkly would be excellent! I'm afraid all I have is this one ball I picked up from the last waystation, and it's all blue. Some variety!

Are you familiar with the Vanquish?

I'm happy to share! And Winter's also got a stash of yarn, but he's not quite as in to fun colors as I am, cause. You know. Winter.

I haven't hung out on that ship much, but I can definitely find it!

[Winter has yarn? That's an interesting tidbit. She grins.]

Then come on over when you've got some time. We'll see what we can do.

Okay! I've got to finish up some stuff here, but I'll be over there in a couple of hours.

I'll see you in a bit, then!

[She'll leave the personnel room door wide open, then, so Wrath can find her easily enough, threading through another dreamcatcher. There's a large pile of blankets folded against one wall, and a stack of blue woolen dolls lining the window out. A bunch of doodles and drawings, a mountain of shells, and a couple of finished dreamcatchers, and Katie. Welcome to her... very professional... counselling room?

(She's never used it for counselling, actually. But it makes for a great crafts room.)]

[Wrath comes in with Officer Snuggles, an arctic fox wearing a little black fox-sized tactical vest, at her heels. And she's got a bag overflowing with yarn with her, little bits of pink and purple and bright orange peeking out the top.]

Hi!

Wow, this is an awesome room. Looks like a lot of fun in here. And drawings! I didn't know you did drawings. That's awesome.

[She can't decide what she falls in love with more-- Officer Snuggles or all that lovely colour.]

I do! I've been trying to get into the art field at home, but nobody takes me seriously. Doesn't mean I can't enjoy myself in the meantime, right? [Never mind that some of those doodles are anti-possession glyphs. Comes with having hunters as unlikely friends. She pats the far side of the table where there's a couple empty chairs.] Pull a seat up or flop on the blankets, I don't mind. Or the fox might like the blankets. Is he part of security, then?

Oh, that sucks. But you should definitely keep working at it even if people don't take it seriously. All my friends back home said that art's really important, too. That's why I kept working at it.

Thanks! [She flops, because it's damn nice to be able to do that, still. And she takes Snuggles's vest off. He does a little circle around the room and then goes to say hello to Katie.] He is! Officer Snuggles is our Vulpine Unit.

Hello, Officer Snuggles. [She loves the foxes. Katie holds out a hand so he can sniff it.] What are his duties? I assume morale is involved somewhere.

[Snuggles gives her hand a sniff and a little lick.]

Oh yeah, he's great for morale. He keeps an eye on people and can tell if they're getting distressed. And he also hunts all the vermin in the vents. He works hard.

Sounds like he could give me a few pointers, really. Morale and vermin are two of my key interests. I could get him some mince from the kitchen, if you like?

[Keep him distracted and out of the way while they play with string. One easily distracted person in the room is enough.]

Um, sure. A little treat won't hurt him. He's worked hard today.

You have vermin problems here too?

Now and then. But we have a ship cat or two, so that helps.

[Speaking of which, she gives a short sing-song whistle, and a sleepy black head pokes its way out of a pile of wool. Meet Licorice.]

Feel free to pull all that wool out, I'll be right back.

[Just gonna trot out to the kitchen for said snacks with Licorice at her heels. When she comes back, it'll be alone, a small plate of mince in hand. The cat is eating elsewhere.]

Oh yeah, cats are great! [She misses her cat, even though she still has Officer Snuggles.]

Aw, hello kitty!

[New goal: make friends with Licorice. Though that'll have to be later, it seems.]

Will do.

[And she'll have a fine selection of very colorful yarn out by the time Katie gets back.]

[Not too much later. You give her a few minutes, Licorice will slink in again to curl up... probably get very distracted with thread. But until then, Katie just smiles widely at all the different colours.]

I keep meaning to go shopping and find some more colours, but I'm easily distracted, sadly. [She pats the nearest pile of baby blue wool.] Though I have to admit, I'm partial to this shade. I had a beanie I loved as a little girl made of it.

You can have it if you want. I always buy way too much yarn and I keep myself too busy to use it much. Like I only knit when I'm having a really bad day or I'm hanging out with Winter and he's having a bad day. [And his bad days don't seem as bad now that he's got Natasha as his good friend, so there you go.]

You know Mr Barnes! [She's delighted. She's of the opinion Winter needs so many friends.] But knitting does make for an excellent distraction, doesn't it? Perhaps we can make him a more colourful dreamcatcher while you're here.

Yeah, he's my captain! And my best friend here. He's the one that taught me how to knit. [HUGE GRIN.] Yeah, let's do that! I want to learn to make those anyway.

[The idea that Winter was the knitter here is just fantastic and she grins widely.] Then you can teach him, too. They're a lot of fun to make.

[Time to measure out a large section of blue wool, then, to lay out with the rest of the colours, and she hauls the bag of shells up to the table corner and leaves it wide open.] These are all from a lot of places. Seems no matter where we go, every beach has colour you can take home with you.

[At some point early during the lesson, Licorice will slink back in the door and stare at Mr Snuggles before taking up space on the opposite side of the blankets. Katie tells her not to be judgey.]

Oh, I bet he'd love that!

[Wrath makes note of how much wool, and grins at the seashells.] It's so neat, seeing all the different pretty shells. I gotta start collecting them too.

The beaches have all been lovely when we have them. I bet even the ninja beaches would have been lovely if finding them didn't freeze you to death.

[She digs her fingers into the shells and rattles them around a bit just because.] I was considering bracelets or such, but dream catchers seem more interesting right now.

[Well. More useful really.]

...finding them makes you freeze to death? [Whoa.]

Maybe there'll be enough for both? Because these would make really neat-sounding bracelets. [She considers.] One of my friends used to have bracelets made from shell casings, and those sounded cool too.

It takes too long to dig them out from under all that snow and ice. [Ninja beaches. Katie.]

Shell casings, really? That sounds... [She considers, smile picking up a bit.] Interesting. I wish I had some.

Oh. Gotcha. Yeah, you'd have to have like a good enviro suit or something.

It's even better when they're you're shell casings, so you know when you shot them all off. But it wouldn't be that had to get, I think. I mean, we'd need some ballistic weapons.

Hmm. I know a couple of gun fans. I wonder if they could help me out. Unless laser pistols are the new in these days. [In space it can be hard to find the other kind, but she can hope.]

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