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Who: Sara
Broadcast: Video!
Action: On the Marsiva // The Twin Roses
When: Now!

[ The feed starts with Sara adjusting the camera and pursing her lips, then flashing a waxy smile that doesn't go anywhere near her eyes ]

Hi, so, I'm going to need you to go ahead and let me out of here and return me to my ship. I mean, we could do this the long way, but you really, really won't like that. It will be long. And painful. Possibly over days. The thing I'm going to assume you didn't realize about me before you decided to make this incredibly idiotic move is that I don't take kindly to cages. They're not really my thing, and I have a particular prejudice against the people who want to put me in them.

But hey.

[ She puts her hands up in a conciliatory manner ]

Maybe I'm reading this entire situation the wrong way. Just come and get me, we'll talk, and I won't even break your fingers for it. Promise.

Okay? Okay. Chop chop!

[ She rolls her eyes, sighs, and switches off the camera ]

****

[ some time later, Sara shows up in a burst of confetti on The Twin Roses. Hi friends! ]

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[ she makes a face of disgust ]

Ew.

Oh, you're going to have to get over that unless you want to learn to love protein gels and wheat solids.

It just sounds weird.

Unlike everything else that's come up in this conversation?

I've dealt with a lot of weird shit. It tends to be weird Earth shit but every once in awhile it expands. But I hardly eat in the middle of an alien-induced hallucination, you know?

Not really. I'm a big eater. [She definitely has her times when she doesn't, but she also has Zari times.] I'm sure you'll figure it out. Come on, I'll show you the rooms. We have a few empties. They're small, but we're as upgraded as you can get on them.

Fair enough.

And I'm sure the room's fine. I don't need much.

You'll have exactly that. [Not much.] Oh, and bathrooms are kind of communal.

There's more than one?

There's more than one stall in the room. Shower and other.

I'll take it, especially if no one spends an hour doing their hair.

Well, it won't be me or Makie, but the guys might. I still don't know what kind of deal with the devil Vash made to get his hair to do what it does.

The guys are the worst! Nate in particular practically sculpts his hair on my ship.

He's one of your well meaning idiots?

Yeah. He's a good guy, as far as bros go.

Sounds like they all are. I can't say the separation thing is easy.

I don't have a long history of being on a team, so I'm not too worried.

No? Kind of a loner?

Assassins don't regularly run in packs.

[Just leagues?]

I was part of a team, but the assassinations were usually solo, yeah.

Plus, everyone I knew from home thought I was dead, so.

I'd call it another similarity, but I really was dead.

I had that too, but it didn't stick.

Sorry to hear about you, though.

Didn't stick, huh? Immortal? [You wouldn't be the first on the ship if you were!]

And thanks. Technically I never died. I was abducted a few seconds before it happened. But it's what my teammate from the future remembers happening. [She has definitely still needed to deal with the concept of all this. But she's had time for that, so she smiles through the last bit.] I don't think it's what people mean by "can't go home again", but it's true in my case.

Nope. One time deal. I consider it my "get out of jail free with bloodlust" card.

The bloodlust has been taken care of, though.

[ her voice is sympathetic rather than its now-standard mildly sarcastic tone ]

That really does suck.