[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?

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[private]

[halftheman]

In my room. There a problem?

[private]

[velocette]

A coma is normally considered a problem. [He sounds sort of cheerful about it now, though.] If you were unconscious too, I was going to just set you up in the library with me.

[private]

[halftheman]

If I coma you should leave me in my room, and give my dogs to Iris to watch over for the mean time.

[ how hard is this really ]

Re: [private]

[velocette]

You don't think Iris has enough dogs to worry about?

[A smile starts to crack his expression. Maybe, possibly, he's teasing; it's just as likely that he's not.]

What happened to your guns after that flood?

[private]

[halftheman]

She knows them. They know her. If not her, then Mira.

[ So there ]

[ The reminder of his weapons, though-- that makes him twitch ]

I was busy worrying about having an alien heart in my chest. I'll have to shake down Powers for the pair he has. You got one, didn't you?

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[walkthedarkpath]

So she is being looked after?

[ That is all he feels like questioning.]

[punched_hitler]

She does have friends - thanks for letting us know.

[private]

[velocette]

Yeah. I like my knife a little better, which probably means something deeply psychological, huh?

Is Powers likely to give them up?

Private

[velocette]

She's always looked after.

Who are you?

[velocette]

I didn't know you were one. [it's a pleasant surprise, for a change]

I guess you really are one of us. But you probably belong to a lot of clubs already, don't you?

[private]

[halftheman]

He will if he knows what's good for him.

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[velocette]

Use diplomacy.

[It's an offer, a dare maybe; he's not sure Powers responds to anything that can't be classified as force.]

[private]

[halftheman]

What? Why? It isn't his, there was a flood, he should cough them up.

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[walkthedarkpath]

An acquaintance.... My name's Vergil. I am just someone she speaks to sometimes. You?

[punched_hitler]

Oh - well, I'd like to consider myself one, anyway.

Me? I guess that depends on what you mean by clubs. Not much in the way of the literal kind.

[velocette]

Not literal, no [smiling a bit] I meant we're all people who are simultaneously elevated and smothered by the fact that we're more symbol than human to a lot of people. Whether we planned it that way or not.

[private]

[velocette]

Yeah and if he gives you guff I'll see if there's a Warden clause I can use to make him.

I just have this picture in my head, like a contest or a challenge, of thinking circles around someone with a gun. Making them bend without raising a hand. I've never had to try it and you've probably done something like it before, so... [a shrug; it'd be no sweat for Harvey to outsmart someone that way]

It's been thug haven around here too long.

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[velocette]

I'm her friend. I think she calls me Piper.

How long have you been here, Vergil?

[private]

[halftheman]

It's a prison ship, not a corporate cruise, Boy.

That's sort of how it-- rolls. Floats. [ He's not up on the slang, so sue him. ]

Private

[walkthedarkpath]

Is Piper your name?

And I have been here a handful of months. I just generally keep to myself.

[punched_hitler]

[Now that gets a wry smile.] I know I definitely didn't plan it that way.

[Although he hadn't said no, when they'd offered him the job. It had sure beat being a lab rat.] It's got its perks, but... it's got its downsides, too.

[velocette]

I have a hard time remembering the upsides for me. Bleu--she helps. But I suppose that comes naturally to her, to be a muse on top of everything else.

What's the worst downside?

[private]

[velocette]

[He is, as always, a little amused.]

It's not like the prisons I've been to, though. Compared to County it is more like a cruise, isn't it? Anyway, just because everyone comes from rough circumstances doesn't mean we all have to keep running in the same circles.

Private

[velocette]

[There's a sort of blurriness in his head when Vergil asks, and it never clears up into any sort of answer.]

What d'you think of the rat race here so far?

[private]

[halftheman]

Hrumph.

I'll see what I can do.