Got a Mind Like Swiss Cheese

[hollystrike]

Who: Katie and you
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Vanquish, Iskaulit
When: 25th June onwards

[You'd think she'd reach out to let people know she was okay.  What a jerk.

Instead, running into Katie might be an accidental thing.  She's either curled up in her room on the Vanquish (her actual room, not the personnel office), patting Licorice absently and not sure why the poor cat sounds so distressed...

...or the jumbled pieces of memory she has eventually lead her to the Iskaulit, exploring most places in the vain hopes it will fill in the gaps.

Run into her anywhere.  She's not staying put in any one place unless someone gets her attention, but moving through in a slow sort of way, wrapped in the warmest coat she has.  Except for one point where she passes her reflection and stares for a while.]

...

When did I get so old...?

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[hollystrike]

[y e p

Also she takes her time thinking that through, because it's difficult. Sheeee isn't sure about Adstringendum, it doesn't ring a bell, but on the other hand she remembers the conversation about rat tails, and that wasn't here, so--]

Adstringendum was the ruin, right? Everything was all wrecked, and it was really cold for a while... [She frowns.] Then it flooded. I stayed with you for a bit. I don't remember much else from there... [Except pieces. She has a vague recollection of fixing a roof? That doesn't seem right.]

I don't remember arriving here, but you've been here from the beginning of what I remember. Did we arrive together...? But I didn't see you again for-- years. Years and years--

--how old am I?

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[collegedropout]

[Katie, he's fifty times more capable of answering a question about native american history folklore or the mating rituals of chupabaras before he can give an accurate age of one of his closest gal friends. So, you know, he plays this incredibly safe for the first of it, frowning worriedly.]

..... How old you do think you are?

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[She raises a hand and points at the nearest reflective surface.] Younger than that. I know I'm missing a lot, but what I have isn't anywhere near taking me up to someone so old. I remember graduating high school. [Just. She wasn't good at tests.] Studying to be a policewoman. [She's not sure she ever became one, but there were job applications...hnn.]

But that would make me... barely nineteen, at most.

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[collegedropout]

[He sighs through his nose.]

You've definitely had a few more years than that, yeah.

So you remember Adstringendum — and I'm guessing you remember a little about the fleet, too, right?

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[hollystrike]

Some sort of reality TV show I'm not allowed to leave, yeah? [She wrinkles her nose.] There was an episode of Doctor Who like this, you know.