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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2019-01-20 07:17 pm

the white noise is deafening silence

[In the very early hours of January 20th, as the Marsiva and her captives drift nonchalantly through the depths of the universe, there is a call. Every single personal communicator and console springs to life, spitting out a stream of indecipherable static and showing only gray snow on screen. It continues like this for a few seconds longer, going black and then going staticky, and then the signal switches to the encrypted channel generally used for speaking to the Interceptors when something big goes down.

This is a little more successful. The voice may be familiar to some, at least through the static.]


Zhade here! I trust I ███ your attention? I'm having some ██▓▓ble ██tting through. Some of the ░▓██▓█ are missing. I can't ░▓▓▓ read on their loc█████ns. [A particularly long burst of static.] ███stening. I'll s█▓▓█ more inf██▓▓▓▓▓█ I get it.

Stay sharp! [There's the sound of someone actually doing the fingerguns wink noise, and then static.

Any messages sent back won't get through, and Zhade isn't there to answer.]

[ A blip of lost time passes right after those words, before every passenger mysteriously wakes alone in their own unfamiliar room. The style of decor resembles that of the Marsiva's Hospitality Deck, if any passengers should remember what that's like. It sounds and smells the same as the host ship as well, all clean and chrome.

Welcome back to the Marsiva, dear passengers. It's time for round three of calibrations. ]

[ This mingle will cover all non-calibration room interactions. Please continue to come back to it for the duration of the plot! You are, of course, free to post any other mingles/posts/etc. that you'd like. ]
dothelokimotion: (Existence as an unchanging plain)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2019-02-02 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ loki looks down at his hands, settled in his lap. ]

No, Thor. I don't think it does.
rebuildyourruins: (70)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2019-02-02 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Taking a deep breath, Thor looks away. Silence falls between them into the abyss of their hopes and dreams.]

You don't get to decide that for me, Loki. [Quiet, but firm.] That is not how it works.
dothelokimotion: (How miraculous is that?)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2019-02-02 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ loki flinches. ]

No. Of course not. I simply meant it holds . . . little relevance now.
rebuildyourruins: (No you can't have your blanket back.)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2019-02-02 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Huffing, Thor flaps his hand. Reiterating his point. He won't bother to say it again. Only now he's thinking back to last night, and the nights before, and all the conversations he's had since being dumped back into the Fleet.]

Look, I don't - want to spend all of our time here going over it. We cannot ignore it, but... we can't go through this every day. Not when people are in our dreams every night.

[It's a matter of focus, not driving himself insane. They're trapped more than usual, with little to occupy them beyond books and movies about alien dogs being adopted by human girls. Looking back over to Loki, some of the tension leaves Thor's expression. Not enough to smile, but it's a few degrees brighter than before.]

Whatever happens, we are not done yet.
dothelokimotion: (You could say really awful things)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2019-02-02 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ after a long moment, loki nods. that is enough for now. ]

All right.
rebuildyourruins: (45)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2019-02-02 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Thor does muster a smile then, out of that seemingly endless well he has of optimism, even in the darkest times.]

All right. Good.
dothelokimotion: (Here's your cuttlefish card)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2019-02-02 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . and loki smiles back, slow and tentative. ]