[video]

[velocette]

[Not much bothers him, and he doesn't seem distraught now either...but some of the "amused behind the glass" aspect has vanished.]

Bleu is in a coma. I don't know if she has any friends. Or enemies, or anyone else who'd care, on board--but if she does, you have a right to know.

If she does have enemies, well, she's not being left unguarded, so no one do anything heroic or stupid.



[Private to Harvey]

Where are you?

Comments

[private]

[velocette]

...When did you get the idea that anything was ever going to be fair?

[private]

[halftheman]

Man makes his own fairness. I won't be a part of something that is so grossly skewed against everyone in it. This is a rigged game. I won't play it.

[private]

[velocette]

You already know it's all rigged. Here, there, your world, it's all fucked over because it has to be.

I just wonder, is this what makes the scales feel balanced for you?

['This' being an expansive concept: it could be the decision not to make decisions, the choice to try to stay here rather than leave.]

[private]

[halftheman]

[ Harvey frowns, very deeply-- that maimed face is ugly when he's unhappy. ]

It's not about that.

[private]

[velocette]

Correct me.

[private]

[halftheman]

I don't want to talk about it.

[private]

[velocette]

I know. No one ever wants to put attention on raw wounds. It's a very deep instinct, and higher reasoning constantly has to buck against it.

[private]

[halftheman]

It's not raw! It isn't a wound.

Re: [private]

[velocette]

No? It has a better name?