driftfleet | Huntress Mingle!

[Veronica hasn't exactly been her normal self since the calibrations, and with the losses that came after that, she's grown even quieter. But she's finally decided to stop moping and do something.

Which leads her to plop down beside Keith where he's sitting in the lounge and sprawl out, propping her feet up onto his lap.]

What's that?

Some of the stuff I saw on the Marsiva, but don't remember. It happened during the last calibrations, too.

[He glanced at her.]

What augment do you have again?

[She's a little surprised that he's so unphased by her using him as a footrest, but okay. Good. He's getting used to it.

she tilts her head to the side slightly.]

Huh.

[She peers over his shoulder to look at it, but it doesn't make much sense to her.]

Oh, I don't. I've only got a tactical support one. Civilian class, I think.

[It must run in the family. He was used to Lance hanging all over him.]

Hm.

[Keith looked thoughtful for a second.]

Did you notice anything weird about the Marsiva? Like, sometimes, people saw things that others with different augments didn't see. And then it would be gone the next day.

[It happens when you have a lot of people in one house. You just end up getting cozy.

She frowns, thinking.]

No, I...don't think so. I heard other people talking about it, but I didn't see anything.

[He nodded.]

After the last calibrations, we tried to compile everything together that we saw... at least, as much as we could. So, I'm trying to do it again to see if there's anything new.

The problem is... I don't remember any of it directly. It's just what I wrote down. I know I wrote it. It's my handwriting. But I don't actually remember it.

[She takes her feet off his lap and instead scoots in closer, looking over at the journal with a slight frown.]

I wish I could help, but this doesn't make much sense to me either. You don't remember doing it at all?

[Keith shook his head.]

No.

[He looked annoyed, for a second, and then snapped the small journal shut, tossing it on the table in front of him. He sighed heavily and leaned back on the couch.]

Not much I can do about that, though. We just have to hope people wrote down what they found in a way that didn't disappear each night.

[She watches him for a few moments, quiet and contemplative.]

What were you hoping to find?

Right now? I'm just looking for differences. I want to see if there's more information than last time. Maybe, eventually, we'll get enough, you know? Enough that we can find a way out.

[Though, that last part was said with a little bit of trepidation. As important as it was to get home again, Keith was painfully aware of his situation with Lance... and Allura. It was a small point of contention that he kept worrying about, despite Lance's best efforts to live in the moment here in the Fleet. It just kept nagging at the back of Keith's mind.

Though, he was still doing his best to ignore it for Lance's sake.]

[She nods quietly and lets out a soft sigh, rubbing at her face. Veronica leans back into the couch, thinking for a few moments.]

Yeah, maybe. Apparently it spits people back out though, so we might have to wait for that.

Yeah. We haven't been able to access the Marsiva at any other time other than that first bit after our arrival, and then during calibrations.

It's frustrating.

[He put the notebooks aside for now, also leaning back with a sigh.]

I don't know... maybe I should wait a bit and look at this after I've been away from it for a bit. It could be too fresh, you know?

[Sometimes, he could see things better if he walked away from something for a little while and came back to it later.]

I see. [Veronica lapses into a thoughtful silence. The Marsiva then likely holds answers, if it's the only ship that the fleet can't access. And even when she had arrived, there was only dead ends. Keith has a point; Atroma probably has something hidden there that could help them go home.

Keith is talking again, and she blinks, looking back at him and taking a moment to process what he's said.]

Yeah, that's good. And honestly, Keith? We may not have a way to even interpret this at all. In that case, I would say it's not worth losing sleep over.

[Another short pause...]

Lance is the same augment as you though, isn't he? Maybe he can help.

[Keith nodded.] He is. I'll ask him if he'd been able to catch anything in a way that he saved it.

[Though, honestly, Keith had been using his own little investigation as a way to keep his mind off the fact that Pidge and Shiro were gone. Keith was tired of having Shiro taken like that. It was like someone just liked ripping open that emotional scar every few months.]

Thanks, though... for listening.

[Veronica gives him a small smile, nudging his shoulder with hers gently. It's been a rough couple of months, that's for sure. But she's glad that she has people she can rely on here.]

Anytime. I mean it.

[Keith smiled in return, huffing a small chuckle through his nose.]

Same goes for you, yeah? If you need anything... [He hoped that she knew it already, but it didn't hurt to say it.]

[She smiles and ruffles his hair.]

I'm glad we're friends.

[Keith ducked his head, trying to dodge the hair ruffling. Et tu, Vero? Like Shiro didn't do that enough already. He still chuckled a little.]

Yeah. Me, too.

Huntress Mingle!

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