( 04 ) text ♧ go ask alice i think she'll know

[became]

[ solitude is an easy leap for a guy who likes to throw around dostoyevsky quotes like it ain't no thing, and men who go looking for secrets often find them. as such: have the very first non-video caffrey post, tranquility. fuck smiling, this shit ain't right. ]

"Try not to die".

This ship really is the most user friendly around, isn't it? And helpful.

Anyone who isn't used to computers, ask Tony Stark what I mean.

[ he'd say he's sorry, tony... but he isn't. ]

L O C K E D ( listmates )

Normally I'd make an English lesson out of this one, but forget it. "Solitude" is the password you want, if you like feeling special, not to mention uncomfortably singled out.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is a list I could stand not to be on-- and I don't feel particularly giving, especially not towards our smiling friend.

Any thoughts from the other esteemed honorees?

/ L O C K E D ( listmates )





L O C K E D ( wardnik )

I need a word. And you two need better PR, so let's help each other out here.

/ L O C K E D ( wardnik )





L O C K E D ( our smiling friend)

I'm flattered, but I like to exchange names before I commit to anything. How about a quick sitdown? Strictly off the record.

/ L O C K E D ( our smiling friend )

Comments

locked to neal | still voice forever even for that pretty face

[20mentholkools]

Not much of an answer.

locked to riddick | i think this is the beginning of something beautiful

[became]

Cards on the table? Just the one supermax.

locked to neal | it just might be

[20mentholkools]

Smalltime.

locked to neal | it just might be

[became]

I prefer 'good at what I do'. You can't break out of what you're not in. And it only took me a month to put that together, thank you very much, because even I can't accelerate the time it takes to grow a decent beard.

[ snippy snippy, mr caffrey. ]

locked to neal

[20mentholkools]

Sometimes the quickest way to get away, is to let them think they've got you where they want you.

[Plus the restraints and transportation they used for Riddick were a lot more careful and secure than the slams he ended up in.]

locked to neal

[became]

I don't look good in orange.

[ and prison is messy, messy business. nobody wants to work with the assholes who get caught. ]

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

[These references are beginning to actually annoy him now.]

What year are you from?

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

...2011, why?

[ give him a moment to scan the conversation, put two and two together. ]

Prison jumpsuits are orange and ugly. It's an old joke about the real reason none of us want to be locked up.

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

Give it a few thousand years, orange jumpsuits will be a fucking luxury.

[A lot of the slams Riddick had been in, you were lucky they gave you food. Clothing was what you had on your back, or what you ripped off another inmate's back.]

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

They're a luxury outside of the US's comparably cushy prison system, too. Burma, for example? They're not a fan of jewel thieves.

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

[Burma doesn't exist anymore, Neal. But Riddick focusses on the important part of that statement.]

So you're a thief.

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

[ neal hesitates for a moment on that one. ]

Among other things, but yes. Sometimes.

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

Most criminals have a core kind of offence. If they're lucky enough to be able to pick and choose.

[Most of the criminals Riddick had met were criminals by necessity, no choice about it.]

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

I don't. Other than general style, at least.

[ only saved from being the single most douchey statement on the planet in the way for once, neal is matter of fact.

he's a crime unicorn freak, it's a thing. ]

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

[Riddick really doesn't buy that, not by the definitions he's working with.]

And how many people have you killed?

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

I haven't.

[ liar. ]

Any hack with a gun can shoot a museum gala up and walk out with what's left. I like to work cleaner than that.

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

Talking about killing on your way to stealing. [A pause.] Thief.

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

Aesthete.

[ and a small, weighted pause, then what a shrug would sound like if it had a sound. ]

Thief.

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

[He doesn't know that word, but he guesses it's more his lacking education than their time differences, so he ignores it.]

Wasn't that hard.

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

What wasn't?

[ willful ignorance is FUN kids. ]

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

Pinning you down.

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

I'm not pinned.

[ 8| ]

locked to neal and riddick

[20mentholkools]

Sure.

locked to neal and riddick

[became]

[ and this is just quiet disgruntled space and then a quiet laugh, because neal's arrogant, sure, but he's aware enough to realize when he's marked. ]

All right, fine. 'Thief'.