un: antigoneiguess | audio

[rudelanguage]

Yeah, yeahyeahyeahyeah, lemme. Lemme do it. Hhh.

[Antigone's somewhat nasally, cynical voice is back, hi.

she clears her throat.]

'Kay. I'm not talkin' to whoever's out there that already knows how annoying dealing with Fae sorts is. Everyone else? I'm doin' this to be nice. And helpful. [and on the goddamn record so no one can ever accuse Knife of not trying maybe once.

so she will spell this out slowly for ya's:] Do. Not. Give. Out. Your. Real. Name. Make a new one. Use that one. Make everyone else use it.

Got it? Get it? Good.

Don't say you weren't warned.

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[rudelanguage]

I promise to praise you if you can prove that, because I sure ain't seen you be nothin' but patient and polite.

[oblige]

You have not been on the other side of a battlefield.

[ Not that he is ever cruel, but he is a soldier too. ]

[rudelanguage]

And I better not be this time! Fae combat can't go well, Dee.

[oblige]

This is a covert mission and not a war, yes?

[ Why would he be picking fights... ]

[rudelanguage]

I mean. Yeah.

With really annoying, punchable sorts, I'm sure.

[oblige]

I am not so easily provoked, worry not.

[rudelanguage]

[Yeah no shit, you haven't tried to kill me ONCE.]

Okay. I'm not worried then. [aside from the general, normal level of worried.]

[oblige]

[ Why would he try to murder you Antigone??? ]

I have also had to bear the provocations and barbs of one who knew just where to needle, if that is of any comfort.

[ Again... Anabella. ]

[rudelanguage]

That's, uh, more depressing than comforting, but like. I guess that tracks, given what you've already told me about crap back where you're from.

[oblige]

I suspect we've all faced difficulties in the past. At least we can make use of them going forward.

[rudelanguage]

[weaponized trauma....................it's perfect.]

To uh. Saaaaave the world...or whatever. We're not even saving the world this time, it's other people stuck like us, isn't it?

[oblige]

[ They've got this, they can lock in. ]

Yes, those like us who require our aid. It's far more concrete than the rest of all this, and we can hold to that while we contend with these fae.

[rudelanguage]

Wait, are these the guys who've been going missing all this time? Like, like Shadow and Alex and junk?

[oblige]

Of that, I'm uncertain. We were never deployed to this place.

[ He thinks of Joshua, who had been left on Aphaia(?), and reasons... ]

I would assume these are people left behind by another bubble's maintainer.

[rudelanguage]

Jeez. Just how many of these stupid zoos are out there? This really isn't feeling like what we were sold, y'know... Like, more than before.

[oblige]

I'm uncertain whether they fell under Echo's purview or another like him, but they share our lot now. At least we may find kinship in that.

[rudelanguage]

[yayyyy more people to try and fail to make attachments to. yippee. wahoo.

she makes a grumbly noise.]

I'd prefer the stupid camp...

[oblige]

I still can't believe it was not for training.

[ The way he laments this even now, Antigone. ]

[rudelanguage]

Your fault for expecting people to not lie, I guess. Happens to the best of us.

[oblige]

What was the point of adhering food to paper?

[ It was terrible... ]

[rudelanguage]

Who the hell knows, Dee. Maybe they want us to waste more food?

[oblige]

I would far prefer something more practical.

[rudelanguage]

You know what we want barely matters.

[oblige]

I do, yet the sentiment remains.

[rudelanguage]

[in a sigh:] I know, Dee, I know...