video + conscription

[sweetmotherofgod]

[Passengers who've met Heather before might notice she's a bit paler and a bit darker around the eyes than usual. Passengers who haven't are about to get a charming introduction, if it's delivered in a slightly flatter, wearier tone than her usual.]

Been a while since I've done one of these, so I should probably introduce myself. Heather Mason. I'm a double-oh-two and I work in the gardens, which is why I'm speaking to you today.

The oxygen gardens are what keep us all breathing and eating stuff that doesn't come in a vacuum pack. They're not a petting zoo. There are four of us trying to keep that place running and it's hard enough without worrying about the crops getting eaten or kicked over or people's pets trying to kill each other. So here's the deal: You're keeping something in the gardens? Drugs, pets, livestock. Dinosaurs. Congratulations. Now you work there. I don't want to hear any bitching, either. We all depend on the oxygen gardens to keep us alive, so if you're taking more out of them than anybody else, you need to put more in.

Oh, and if what you've got in there might cause damage to what someone else has there? It's your job to make sure that doesn't happen, not anybody else's. Come on.

[She'd add that the people she's just conscripted should contact her for details but... well, they might take that as an invitation not to.]

Comments

[tumbleweeds]

What?

[ never ever. ]

[leaps]

[ this will end well. ]

She's not wrong. There's not enough of us.

[ and sulu juggling too many departments as it is, it's not like he's pulling enough weight there. or what he classifies as enough. ]

[tumbleweeds]

And that makes it okay to threaten my family? Go fuck yourself.

[ She's about ready to bare her teeth at him. ]

[leaps]

That's not what I was saying. Or what she was saying.

[ oh god oh god oh god ]

[tumbleweeds]

That's exactly what it sounds like.

[leaps]

We're just saying if you're using resources you need to give back. That's all.

[ oh this is not good. ]

It's not just about you. It's about everyone onboard.

[tumbleweeds]

Oh, so we're saying it now?

[ That is the most petty thing to pick at, especially since she doesn't care who Sulu spends his time with -- but it's something to pick at, so she goes after it. ]

And we'll just ignore the fact that I've been sharing all the extra milk and eggs with the entire ship?

[leaps]

It's not like that. Don't make it like that.

[ and something like irritation leaks into his voice. this isn't a fight he really wanted to have, but. ]

No one's ignoring it. But there's more to keeping animals in here than just that.

[tumbleweeds]

[ She does what she wants, Sulu. ]

They aren't eating anyone's crops. I clean up after them, I take care of them. I look out for my own.

Apparently you need a lesson in that. [ And she's disconnecting, because she knows leaving it like that might hurt the most. ]