driftfleet | Let's Not Mention the Flaming Blanket Incident

Who: Katie and You (Yes You)
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Iskaulit
When: Eh, now

[She actually got her memory back a bit over a week ago, but between the instability of her magic on re-awakening and the messing around with souls that followed, it's just been safer to keep a low profile. For everyone else, that is. There's nightmares in that thar mist for the accidentally enchanted. (And also, a question answered: if she dies here, she stays here in her entirety. Her fae soul is trapped, too. Which... is vaguely irritating, but to be honest she's a little relieved about it.)

So she's kept herself busy locked away in one of the Iskaulit's rooms and a selection of paints, following through on the idle joke she had with Crowley months ago. Painting is good therapy!

...so's vandalism.]

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[It's first person handy cam! Heading down a corridor towards a door.]

It's come to my attention that I somehow missed talking to our lovely hosts a few weeks ago! That's a shame. I wouldn't have minded snogging one or the other. I've decided to take out my remorse about it on a few walls. I do hope nobody was using this room for anything else beforehand--

Ah. Here you go.

[The door is flung wide to show a freshly-painted, extremely flattering painting of Carmen and Chase, taking up one wall of this room and painted in an assortment of complementary pastels.]

Do you like it? It's not quite finished yet. [She puts the comm down facing the wall and leans into view for a moment, hair swinging, to wave gaily at the camera.] Just hold on a moment...

[Aaand she's gone.

And then there's the godawful scrape of a large metal container being dragged across the floor until she manages to get it into view of the camera: an industrial size bin full to overflowing with rotting fruit and other assorted trash she's scavenged from all over the place.]

That's better.

Would anyone like to practice their aim?

[I am a responsible Captain.]

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With the added benefit of its original owners, so to speak, not caring if it's gone missing.

[She assumes, anyway. If it's gone, it's not their problem anymore.]

Though I'm afraid you'll have to fill me in on the context here.

[Katie glances at her with some surprise.]

You're not familiar with the painting's subjects?

[She shakes her head]

It sounds as though I should be, though.

[She points to the two women in the painting, one by one.] Carmen and Chase. Spokespeople for the Atroma.

[It's worth noting for later that she misnames Carmen as Chase and vice versa. Katie's not allowed to be completely truthful. It's a geas thing.]

[For now, Leia has no reason to doubt who's named who. Just knowing names and appearances is a good place to start, information-wise.]

I can't imagine how they got so lucky to have that job.

[Leia's tone couldn't be any drier or less amused if she tried, honestly. Because while she is curious, she's also not much of a fan on principle.]

[Wise choice.]

I understand they got the jobs when their predecessors resigned extremely suddenly. With great prejudice.

[That doesn't sound like a harmless job change. But she doesn't know enough to say otherwise yet.]

And I take it we don't hear from them often?

They're quite a common presence if your sense of time is skewed. [So...no.] Usually, I suspect, their presence is attempted distraction.

[Well that is an interesting take on things, and one Leia is keen to know more about.]

When was the last time they appeared? Before the other day, that is.

Hmm, it's hard for me to say as I haven't been around a great deal in the past year. But I remember the last time I saw them was right in the wake of their predecessors resigning.

[There's a few things she has questions about here, but most important is--]

About how long ago was it their predecessors resigned?

They resigned quite voluntarily about... oh. Just over a year ago now, actually. [She's a bit surprised. Time flew.]

You sound surprised by that.

[Leia may have no real frame of reference for the change in spokespeople, or how fast it may have felt like time passed, but the surprise she can pick up on.]

It's not as long as I thought it was. I lose track sometimes.

[At least with being here, Leia doesn't have much experience. But with space in general--]

Being on board a ship for so long can do that. Though I don't know whether it's better or worse than being planet-side, where it's easier to keep track of time.

Well, I suppose it depends on how important time really is to an individual. Some people are fond of saying it's an illusion to begin with.

[An interesting turn to take the conversation, but not one Leia doesn't mind rolling with here.]

I'd wager many of those people haven't been taken against their will and left on a spaceship.

An excellent point, that. Time does seem to do odd things when you don't have a sun to measure it with, though.

[Leia nods, frowning just slightly, because she knows exactly how that feels. And it's not a feeling she's fond of.]

It's why I prefer to not be solely on a ship for a long period of time.

[Katie concurs. She vastly prefers it when the ship is docked somewhere. She glances at Leia curiously.]

What's the longest time you've been stuck on a ship for?

Aside from this stay, over a standard month on a ship with no hyperdrive. I wouldn't recommend it.

[WELL it wasn't all bad, but it was certainly frustrating, to put it lightly.]

How on earth did you not go mad in the meantime? I hope you had plenty of good company.

I had company, certainly, but I don't know if it was all always good.

[It got better the further into the trip, but the beginning was very naturally rocky.]

Partly good is better than all bad, I'd say. Though I suppose if you heavily disliked your company at least you'd have someone to vent at.

Oh that still happened frequently, don't misunderstand. Even people who are fond of each other wind up arguing if they're stuck in a small space for an extended period of time.

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