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[Why are things floating.

Libby sits (this time on a table in the kitchens--chairs exist, girl, why are you like this) and she is surrounded by slowly drifting utensils.

She's already figured out how to lie about it. She never told anyone she wasn't telekinetic. (Because who does that?). So she'll just say they made her like this, and Jesse's secret will be protected while Libby gets to show off--because this is wicked sharp, and even makes her confident enough to roll up her sleeves, baring scars and soft white feathers.

She grins at the camera, which she turned on with her mind.]

'Sup, bitches.

[She's not opening this up to the network for any reason. Can't a girl just be bored?]

[What she sends to her--crew, that's what she calls them. Her crew, like she's some fucking gangbanging idiot.

But they're not her friends, and allies sounds so formal. So crew it is. (She knows that Jesse is a surprisingly good hugger, that Mouse has a sweet smile, that Nikolai doesn't want to be called Nik. She has to be careful, here, because if she's not--she's going to end up wanting to keep them around. She'll actually like them, and then where will she be?)

(It's already over.)

What she sends them is different. Still things floating, still on a table, but she looks serious for once.]

'Kay.

Status reports, if you got 'em. And I got one.

So--we're Jesse, Mouse, and Nikolai, right now. And me, obvious. Jesse, Mouse, Nikolai is going to be our protection around here.

But that's complicated, because--I've got in with Loki, too, and he is--wicked dangerous. But I want what he's got. And he can be useful. But I'll handle him, 'kay? He doesn't know you, just me, and--look what I can do.

[She waves her hand around and smiles, briefly, before--serious, again.]

I'll drop him when we can't use him anymore. Promise. But stay the fuck away from him, he's bad fucking news.

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[ Jaye's seen looks like that before. Hard not to sometimes, when you're living out on the streets, but it's been a few years and she's always been one to own her body so no one tries to do it for her. She hits on most of the guys and isn't too picky as long as they haven't seriously turned her off in some way, and she learned how to take care of herself very quickly back home, even before Coyote gave her teeth and claws.

So she nods, ducks her head slightly; doesn't say sorry because she doesn't know this girl, but it's something like it. ]

In that case, I definitely suggest you convince someone that the ship is haunted with it. [ Pause. ] Which fuck, who knows, it might be -- but that's not the point.

...that is the best idea.

[She's easily distracted, anyway.

(It's going to be different now. She doesn't know that Nikolai, who may be vor but is still human, has strong feelings about her whoring. She doesn't know how Jesse, who is a drug dealer, runs good and deep with his goodness. Even if anyone on the ship tried--they'd regret it.)]

Even better if it's haunted. Then it'd do half my job for me. Yes. Ghosts.

[ Even Jaye, who tends to be content to let people fight their own battles unless she actually likes them, would step in on that -- and then whoever was trying it would have to face several hundred pounds of pissed off grizzly bear. ]

Scare the piss out of Edgeworth, it'll be good for him or something.

That's the noob, right?

[Libby is the worst person.]

Fuck yes. He'll be so fucked.

Oh yeah. He's some lawyer or something, I don't know.

We'll all get a laugh out of it.

[Already smirking. A game, finally.]

He needs to pull his dick out of his own ass.

Not sure he'd know what to do with it.

Ha!

Yeah, but he'd be less full of shit.

Might all be replaced with a bunch of [ pause, blowing some hair out of her face ] hot air.

[Libby's smile is wicked.]

Sure, but then he's easier to knock over.

Did I get your name?

Don't think it'd take much now.

[ She grins. ]

Nah. Jaye, like the bird but with an e at the end. That part's important.

He is so annoying. How is he alive?

Libby. Like nothing.

No one's pushed him out the airlock yet. Plus he's really funny to watch when you get him flustered.

Sweet.

True. Instant comedy.

Been here long?

With how boring the ship gets, think that's why we keep him around.

Since jump six.

Two months?

Do you know where a girl could get some cancer sticks?

Maybe I should ask him too. Trip him out.

Do it, see if he launches into a lecture.

They're fucking hard to come by out here. But I got a pack in my locker this jump, and I think that hot Russian guy with the tattoos got three of them.

You know he's not a smoker. That type never is.

Nikolai. I--

[With Loki probably spying on her, better not say it. He can't know he's replaced.]

We met. He's rad, huh?

[And he said she's got him. He's got her, and it's a comforting weight around her. Yeah, she feels better, a little bird protected by a fucking shark. She's not ashamed of that, although she won't say it.]

He could probably use it.

[ There's a slight eyebrow raise at the cut-off, but she doesn't ask. ]

Yeah. Looks kind of like someone else I know around here but a lot more fucking Russian. Super fond of staring at my tits, not that I can blame him, because I'd do the same if I had a dick.

[ This is why she doesn't get why everyone was so surprised to see her standing there with Crowley. She knows how to use her looks for what she wants, isn't shy about doing it -- doesn't see the big deal. ]

[Pragmatic. Libby admires that, even if her and Crowley together make her uneasy. That's why, pragmatic and sexy or not, Libby doesn't even think of recruiting. Besides, they have Sigyn now, for sex appeal.]

Not mine. I practically offered and he said he doesn't fuck little girls.

[So casual. Like this is no big deal, nothing to fuss over.]

What's smoking like, for you?

[ Crowley should make her uneasy. Jaye would include herself in that if it weren't for the fact that she knows Crowley is the bigger threat. But she's not good at follow the leader anyway, has to have her loyalty earned. ]

Yeah, I've got those standards too. [ Not that she cared when she was sixteen, but it's different now. Even though a lot of times she still throws back to a sixteen-year-old's attitude. ]

What's it like? [ Eyebrow raise. ] Never really thought about it.

[They're alike, in a way. Use monsters to defend against monsters, except Lobby is trading her monster for a man. A strong man, lethal, but only human. But Libby can tell it would never work with Loki. Sooner or later--

--and maybe part of Libby, for all her self-description, is afraid of monsters.]

Well, you don't look queer, so I wasn't going to ask.

[Maybe your boss. He seems like a sick fuck.]

I just...don't smoke. Lung problems. But it looks rad.

[ Crowley was the first to talk about things she knew, angels and demons, and she'd been drawn to it. It was stupid, is stupid, but Jaye would rather be close to him, something useful instead of something he wouldn't have to think twice about getting rid of.

Not that she thinks he won't get rid of her if he has to, but at least this way she gets a bit of info. Crowley's kept what he is secret, but Jaye knows. ]

I don't do it much. But blowing smoke in people's faces is fun.

[It makes perfect sense to Libby, and she's half guessed it already. Jaye is just too rad not to be running an angle. She's getting something out of it, and probably more than Crowley knows.]

It looks wicked fun.

If you got a pack--he got three. He must smoke a lot.

[There has to be a way. She's got things to trade, things beside her body, and if it comes down to that--Nikolai might not fuck little girls, but other people do.

But tbey need tobacco long term. She has to think.]

[ Crowley probably doesn't quite understand just how much Jaye enjoys the sex, either. Not that most people really want to think about Crowley fucking anyone. ]

Haven't seen him without one really, but I also haven't seen a lot of him.

Might be some tobacco growing in the oxygen garden, but I haven't looked for it so I wouldn't know.

[ If she's that desperate to find more, well... she's the same age Jaye was when she ended up on the streets. She can give her some tips. ]

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