(no subject)

[sassy_assassin]

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! ]

Comments

video;

[sassy_assassin]

I could really go for breaking some fingers right about now. Or a drink. Either/or.

Re: video;

[universal_charm]

Well, you can probably find the drink on the Marsiva, so that's one of two. Can't really help with the other one.

[sassy_assassin]

[ she appraises him for a moment ]

There might be some other options. We'll have to see.

[universal_charm]

My name's Jim Kirk, if you want to look me up for those other options when you get off the Marsiva. Captain of the Tourist.

[sassy_assassin]

Sara Lance. Captain of a ship that is not here, actually.

Who names these things, anyway?

[universal_charm]

I think they just came like that. The Tourist is probably the dullest of them all, to be honest.

[sassy_assassin]

Names, or ships overall?

[universal_charm]

Just in names. I'll be the first to admit that the Tourist name doesn't stand up well against something like The Wonderduck.

[sassy_assassin]

I think it's charming. Or at least descriptive. Wonderduck on the other hand is just... cartoonish.

[universal_charm]

There's also Huntress, Blue Fish, Red Fish, Iskaulit, First Breath, Bloodsport, Bishop, Starstruck, Twin Roses, Caprine, Vanquish, Heron, Blameless, and the Goldstone.

Not quite sure how any of them go together, but again, not the one who named them. You'll also end up on one of those too, when you get rotated off the Marsiva.

[sassy_assassin]

Have you been here long?

[universal_charm]

About two and a half years now. I would consider myself mid-level. There's some that are my senior in terms of tenure.

[sassy_assassin]

That is super depressing.

[universal_charm]

Yeah, well, we get kept busy enough we don't think about it all that much.

[sassy_assassin]

What else do you do?

[universal_charm]

Well, this system isn't so bad. Competition and teams and earning some easy cash. Others... others aren't so nice. Nightmare inducing kind of not nice.

[sassy_assassin]

All for what, televised drama?

[universal_charm]

If that's what you believe it is. Personally, I don't, but I just have a theory, not real evidence for that.

[sassy_assassin]

Hit me with it.

Over drinks?

[universal_charm]

Sure. Lady's choice - Malum or the Space Bar.

[sassy_assassin]

Malum sounds like something you'd find in Ikea. Let's go for it when I'm released from this place.

[ time warp??? ]

[universal_charm]

_{[ Let's do the time warp again! To when Sarah is let out of quarantine and Kirk can meet her at Malum. See, Crowley, he's doing his job, bringing in the new blood. He spots her and nods, coming over and giving her one of those smiles that pulls at just one side of his mouth. ]}

I see you've been let out for good behavior.

[sassy_assassin]

[ her flirt mode is on high, voice purring ]

We'll see how quickly they learn to regret that decision.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He pulled out a chair and sat across from her. ]}

I prefer bad behavior myself.

[sassy_assassin]

[ she smirks before calling someone over to order a whiskey straight up ]

So, Captain... Kirk, was it? What's the deal with this place?