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anewlanguage[Cain has no interest in vlogging, but his video feed was switched on accidentally as he got settled into his room. So for a long while there's no sound, and the only picture is of the side of his leg. Then he notices that it's not cooperating, and he's not such a stoic prisoner that he'll just turn it off and pretend it hadn't happened.]
This is some kind of reality show, huh? 'True Lives of the Deadliest Inmates'?
This is some kind of reality show, huh? 'True Lives of the Deadliest Inmates'?
Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 09:44 pm (UTC)Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 09:48 pm (UTC)Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 09:49 pm (UTC)[He thinks about telling her more, and then doesn't.]
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 09:58 pm (UTC)Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:01 pm (UTC)Who's been giving her a rough time?
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:06 pm (UTC)[That's not disbelief so much as pure curiosity.]
No one, lovey, not on purpose. People disappear and it's 'ard on anyone that's got attached. This boat's 'ard on us sometimes. I don't reckon there's anyone on board wouldn't bend over backwards to make 'er life better, but it's still not always sunshine an' roses.
Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:20 pm (UTC)[He's sure of it. He's also trying to convince himself of it.]
Did Batman make it aboard?
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:37 pm (UTC)Aye, one of 'em. Might not be the one you know, mind.
Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:39 pm (UTC)So Iris, how long's your stay been?
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 10:54 pm (UTC)[She doesn't have to think about the answer, any more than she would if you wanted it in seconds, hours, rells or nanospans.]
Not long, really, but I've made some good friends. I like it 'ere, meself.
[She does usually, anyway.]
There's some of us that do.
Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 11:01 pm (UTC)Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-23 11:25 pm (UTC)Aye, exactly. Wildthyme's Law, Rule Number One, lovey: if you can't carry it with you it's not worth 'aving. Only make yourself miserable else.
Private;
Date: 2013-01-25 04:09 am (UTC)And what's your Rule Number Two?
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-25 10:18 am (UTC)Private;
Date: 2013-01-26 05:01 am (UTC)Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-26 01:16 pm (UTC)Well. Partly I just liked the sound o' the place, you know? Suited me to be somewhere like this for a while. I never thought too 'ard about the 'ole redemption thing before I actually got 'ere, but I've seen it working already. Living 'ere changes you, you can't 'elp it - and I've always been a fan of second chances, lovey.
[She's making some effort not to give him a significant look to go with that sentence, but not entirely successfully.]
And there's the deal, of course - I can always find a use for a stable wormhole nexus. That's if I don't change me mind before I'm done, any road. I've got a feeling getting my bloke sorted out might be a bit on the longterm side - plenty of time to think it over, eh?
Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 12:10 am (UTC)Two questions for you, then: one, who's your inmate and how big a pain in the ass is he? and two, run that 'stable wormhole nexus' by me again.
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 12:27 am (UTC)Goes by Deadpool. Another one o' them continuities full of grown men in Spandex. 'E's a spectacular pain in the arse. 'E's raised it to an art form, an' I'm no beginner in that department meself, you know.
[She shifts focus, still grinning.]
We'll do well. I'm a girl that likes a challenge, me. A wormhole nexus is a spacetime phenomenon; a lot of spots all over the place shortcutting back to one fixed point in spacetime - except they never are fixed, not really. I ...I knew someone once, built a nightclub on one, but she never did get it properly stabilised and it vanished up its own causality. I'm thinkin' of doing something similar. Only without the vanishing, obviously; that's where the Admiral comes in, see?
Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 10:39 am (UTC)worldship this is.] Yeah. My continuity. He's a real comedian, I hear.[He doesn't speak up at all during her explanation, just fiddles with his hands, disguising how intently he is listening.] How similar? You want a nightclub in a spot so exclusive none of us can visit?
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 10:49 am (UTC)Back up there a moment, sunshine. You know 'im? If you've got 'istory, let's be 'aving it.
[She's been content not to pry into Cain's business, curious as she is; but if his business and Wade's intersect, all bets are potentially off.]
Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 09:19 pm (UTC)[One of those times Cain might have been better off lying, but he sees no reason to. He's not an assassin anymore, and he doesn't really care who knows what he's done.]
Re: Private;
Date: 2013-01-27 10:57 pm (UTC)[She's relaxed a little bit; still intent, but back to friendly.]
I once 'ad to tell the ...an old friend o' mine this: don't ever make the mistake o' thinkin' I'm not serious just 'cause I'm never serious, eh? Long as that's the 'ole story, we don't 'ave a problem; I 'ate 'aving problems with people I like, love.
[She adds a smile to soften that.]
...No, see, the 'ole point with the wormholes is people can get in, see? My - that other place I mentioned, she 'ad one entrance in 1930s Berlin, one in New New York; oh, I don't remember where she 'ad the rest. It were still pretty exclusive, mind. Something like that, I'm thinking; done right, it could be fabulous, don't you reckon?
Private;
Date: 2013-01-28 12:39 am (UTC)But her talk of wormholes is making it very difficult.]
So d'you just luck out with these wormholes? Just hope you find one and that it goes somewhere you can use?