006 -- video;

[jilt]

[ well, irene's in holmes' room again. she's lighting his pipe, the comm balanced on her knee. it's possibly the least careful she's been about her presence here since this whole charade started. ]

It seems my dear Mister Holmes has been taken away. Or perhaps his blasted turkey ate him, I'm not entirely certain. But he's nowhere to be found, and his communicator seems to be inactive. I'm told this means he's vanished along with the rest of the crowd.

[ there's a pause. irene's tone is so bitter and she knows she'd do well to reign it in, but. ]

Damnably rude of him, leaving without a word to anyone.

[ because that's irene's trick, isn't it? there's a pause, and then she turns off the feed. ]

Comments

[lawyer]

How rude of a gentleman, to leave a lady like you without even a goodbye. Perish the thought, et cetera et cetera.

[he thinks you're smoking hot okay irene woooow what a lady]

I don't do consolations that well but I doubt that is what you're looking for anyway.

[jilt]

You mustn't have been familiar, he was anything but a gentleman.

[ the way irene most certainly wasn't a lady, but hey, who is keeping track. ]

I'd rather not have the consolation, but I'm sure you've something more interesting to offer.

[lawyer]

I offer myself as a gentleman, one good at conversation if it suits the lady.

[invalided]

[ Ah. They're dropping off like flies, aren't they?

It's really... unfortunate. He'd call it sad but that would be counterproductive to any and all aloof recoveries. ]

Does anyone expect better than rude out of Sherlock Holmes? [ In a non-babysitting capacity, at least. ]

[jilt]

Rude, yes. But the leaving without a trace simply isn't in his repetoire.

[ because all of this is easier if irene just pretends to be angry that he's stealing her trick. ]

[invalided]

Yeah, wonder where he might have picked that up. [ Sarcasm. Naturally. ] I suppose it's possible he eloped to the center of the ship with the Sherlock I lost, too.

voice;

[passe]

Vanished?

[ No video for good reason, but you can tell he's slightly disconcerted by her choice of words. ]

[jilt]

Yes, vanished. People tend to do that aboard this vessel.

[passe]

Care to be more specific?

... did they melt? Evaporate?

[ hey normal questions ]

video + text;

[fraud]

[ oh hey there is kind of a surprised/eager expression here before he switches to text. typing a message now because he totally did not realize he captured his expression when he sat down on the bed to watch her post. ]

Was this you?

[ whatever it's kind of an open secret by now that that post was his sooo leave him alone if he wants to follow up on the nice threads there. biased lyfe style!!! ]

[jilt]

[ video forever deal with it. ]

Yes, it was. What of it?

[voice]

[yardbird]

From what I understand, it doesn't seem like many people can leave without sayin' a word about it.

...

You alright, though?

[jilt]

I have a tendancy to land on my feet.

text;

[tigers]

Is this one in the pool?

[ So halfhearted rn because he got fired he can't even come up with his usual amount of sass ouch. ]

[jilt]

Such poor taste, joking about the deceased.

voice;

[cons]

What?

[ it's one of those replies that happens when you're meant to only be listening and watching things on the network, and essentially blowing your cover that you're kinda ..well, creeping around. but anyway, now it's blurted out, and her first thought is that she wants to be wearing her mask now, thank you very much. she wants her mask and she wants to be wearing it because this wouldn't even register ( yes it would shut up wichita ) if she had the damn thing on. there's a string of profanities she'd probably be indulging in now if she wasn't about to talk to one of the Irenes. honestly, anybody else, fine. but nope. No cursing like a sailor around Irene. ]

I figured he was just crazy-ing up a new room, I mean, I didn't even.. think to message him. [ again ]

[jilt]

He seems to have gone. I'm sorry, dear.

action;

[handelaar]

[Normally he wouldn't bother with the network while in the middle of a task, but paranoia has him tracking the people he knows and her number immediately catches his attention. And huh. He knows that room... which means she's about two doors down from his own, and he'd really like to have a word with her. Face to face. She's been hard to catch.

Unfortunately he's cleaning off his mask in the bathrooms and he doesn't think he's got time to throw it into his own room before she slips away again, so he hooks it into his belt loop as he dashes down the hall only to skid to a stop right outside of 023.]

action;

[jilt]

[ at just the time when irene is exiting with her handful of things. her file, holmes pipe and robe, whatever other bits and pieces have caught her eye and it seems indecent to leave it all behind where anyone could see.

gods above, but the man saved everything. what an ungodly mess.

nearly colliding with ned though, that nearly sent everything crashing to the floor. irene raises an eyebrow, unimpressed. ]

video;

[chromosomes]

[ Hesitantly, because he is bad at. people. ]

Do you want to go for a walk?

[jilt]

[ oh my god the most unexpected of invitations. ]

Perhaps. Are you offering to escort me?

[text]

[jurisimpudent]

When did you notice his disappearance?

[jilt]

Today, when I came to drag him out of his rooms and force him into conversation.

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[abductivereasoning]

[ My, they really are dropping like flies, aren't they? To think there had been two more of him when he'd arrived here. Almost a bit lonely to be down to just one genius mind on such a big ship. (Of course, now they'll stay out of his stuff, so more power to them for pissing off.) He can understand that look on her face though, much as he'd like to pretend he doesn't.

He knows what it's like, feeling loss. ]

Tobacco is terrible for your complexion, I hear.

voice; locked

[jilt]

[ there's a pause, a little inhalation of breath. ]

Perhaps. I don't even really need to be smoking this, do I? I only ever bothered because it irritated him.