Tha sin mar bhàs.

[hollystrike]

Who: Katie and you!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Planetside
When: Now-ish

[Amusement Park]

[So this is where she goes when she wants time to think, apparently.  The bunker is a place she won't enter; between the heavy aftermath of a mass death and the understandably stricken reactions of its visitors, the atmosphere is far too toxic.  But it doesn't mean she isn't grieving.  The deaths could not be helped and are god knows how far in the past, but the fact that these people have been forgotten - not acknowledged even by this automated town, let alone the rest of space - is something that sits very poorly.  She can't even change anything about the town to reflect its population's final days.

She's walking the rollercoaster tracks, very high up, thinking over the issue.  Don't ask how she got up that high.  And don't worry if you should be using the rollercoaster at the time; she can avoid you.  Might give you a bit of a scare, though, sorry.

Eventually, she puts a call through to Sam.]

[Outside of town]

[As far as she can go before she suspects (or hopes) she's outside the range of the city's replication science so her work isn't scrubbed.  She's not too far from the bunker; it would be pointless if she were too far away from it. 

She finds a rock face smooth enough, and between a thick blade and Kirito's lightsaber she carves a memorial.  Maybe nobody will ever see it, but if any other visitors come to this place, they should know what happened.  It's worth the extra headache.]

[And Broadcast]

I've decided to quit making dreamcatchers and move on to voodoo dolls instead.  It's more fun.  So if you'd like to take one before I end up throwing them all out, feel free.

[Just so you know.  Totally honest, as usual.  Less cheerful than normal.

If anyone wants her she'll be curled up in her office with Licorice on her lap.  She's so tired of these planets.]

Comments

[monolike]

[Shoves her gently, grinning and reaching for some feathers for his dreamcatcher.] Have you been hanging out with Mikleo?

[hollystrike]

Of course not. He's been hanging out with me. [There's a difference, gosh. She nudges some shells in his direction.] That's a terrible attempt for a first time.

[monolike]

[There's that second of hesitation again before Sorey remembers and he beams at her, reaching for the shells also.] Thanks Dorothy! I'll be honest, this isn't my first arts n' crafts.

[hollystrike]

[He'll get there.] What else have you done besides leatherworking?

[monolike]

Hmm, well... [Looks down at his clothes and plucks at them a little.] Mikleo usually handles the sewing, but I know how to stitch a tear and reattach a button. I do drawings in my journals sometimes too, although Mikleo's better at that also...oh, but my Ancient Tongue script is better than his!

[hollystrike]

Ooh, what kind of drawings do you do?

[From one artist to another.]

[monolike]

[Smiles apologetically.] Oh um...academic stuff. When we're exploring ruins and we want to get a quick sketch of what a trap or mural looks like, so we can examine it later.

[hollystrike]

[She wrinkles her nose. Well, to each their own.]

I suppose study is an important part of not dying sometimes.

[monolike]

[Laughs a little to himself. In a lot of ways, she's really just the same as that precocious little child who fought a raptor with a laser sword.] I'm gonna take that as a 'you big nerd,' from you. Since you can't say it directly.

[hollystrike]

Who says I can't? You big nerd. [She grins.]

Besides, you should see my sketchbook sometimes. It's just full of frivolous things.

[monolike]

Oooh, show me now! I mean, if you want to. [Man, not asking questions makes him sound so demanding...]

[hollystrike]

Mmm hold on, I think it got eaten by my dog at some point. [She leans over behind the table, rummaging through a small stack of folders and papers, and eventually hooks up one of those A4 ringbound-style sketchpads that seems to have been covered in bright wrapping paper and various stickers. Go figure. So professional.]

Here. I think this is the one rated G.

[She hands it over. Inside you can find several Fleet passenger sketches, both realistic-ish and caricatured to hell, various hopscotch grids, flowers, butterflies, random patterns, landscape art, half done picture of Diamond and Beau, and shoved in the middle loosely are two sketches of a devil's trap and and an anti-possession sigil, SPN style.]

[monolike]

Rated G? [lol what are rating systems

Takes the book and starts flipping through it, spending a lot of time lingering over the portraits of passengers and Diamond and Beau.]

[hollystrike]

Rated G for Graphic. [Hee.] It's a weird television thing, I don't quite understand it.

--oh, are you familiar with television?

[monolike]

Oh, the- yeah! Well... [A sheepish grin as he turns a page.] As familiar as this place has made me. But I'm pretty sure that's unusual.

[hollystrike]

You should try the little theatre we have one day. Should I assume you haven't seen The Princess Bride?

[She's ON A MISSION everyone should watch this.]

[monolike]

I haven't! I've watched a couple things in there, but- is that one your favorite? I-I mean, your least favorite?

[hollystrike]

Oh, it's absolutely my least favourite! It doesn't even have any sword fights! Definitely not the best one of all time.

[monolike]

Oooh, that sounds great! I can't wait to hate it with you! [SO DOWN FOR TV TIMES]

[hollystrike]

[HECK YEAH but she's laughing, Sorey you're so earnestly trying bless you]

Hate watching something is a lot of fun!

[...also there's probably a picture of Mikleo as a ruffled cat in that book with the name Meebo down the bottom of the page, just sayin']

[monolike]

[oh yeah he's already very secretly taking a picture of that drawing with his comm] Then it's a date! We'll watch it together.

[hollystrike]

[Secretly or sekritly, because honestly Katie encourages all such picture taking anyway.]

Do you want to bring Mikleo? [WHICH IS ACTUALLY UNRELATED but even so it does occur to her to ask.] Or do you want to watch it first and then drive him crazy with all sorts of fun quotes from it?