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[disheartening]

Once upon a time in a faraway spaceship.

Do continue the tale according to your own imagination and while you think, however long that will take -

What do you know of magic? aside for fairy dust and happily ever after.

[ this post is 95% sarcasm. ]

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voice »

[disheartening]

[ well you she might yet appreciate, Faith. ]

Blind? Is magic around them, then?

voice »

[stacked]

How it usually works. [ her shrug is almost audible. ] Can yell gravity's bullshit all you feel like, still gonna need some wings, a spell or a shove to get off the ground. Same deal.

voice »

[disheartening]

Then magic operates this ship, or perhaps a sorcerer that we are unaware of?

voice »

[stacked]

Always is somebody tugging strings. Don't see why it'd be different up here.

voice »

[disheartening]

Yes.

[ clever. ]

Who, then? What is your best guess?

voice »

[stacked]

[ there's a pause here, like faith isn't used to people asking her to weigh in on matters not 'how do we kill it or blow it up hardcore'. largely because she isn't. ]

My money's on whatever the fuck cooked up those devil dogs and set 'em loose. The smiley face ain't shit, way I see it.

voice »

[disheartening]

How can we tell the Smiley face is not exactly the being that controls the dogs?

voice »

[stacked]

Could be. But somebody raised those things up, kept 'em safe. Big Red led us right to 'em and didn't care if we took the whole lab down. Big bad's got a pet, still a pet.

[ and generally the kind of pet you nurture and keep safe for months, you don't let a bunch of battle-jacked kidnapping victims chop into pieces. ]

voice »

[disheartening]

And I don't suppose the original crew of the ship wished to say if they ever saw the beasts before and where they came from?

voice »

[stacked]

Nah, those two got 'no idea' about anything serious that goes down.

[ heavy, heavy skepticism there. ]

voice »

[disheartening]

I am certain they do not; helpless victims, like us all.

[ the same amount of skepticism over here, too. ]

voice »

[stacked]

Could be. But they've been caught lying before.

[ not veiled at all subtext: they're always lying. ]

voice »

[disheartening]

Truly.

[ not surprised. ]

Regarding what?

voice »

[stacked]

Way I heard it, we're not going where they said. Plus that guy who pancaked out was all about not trusting them, and usually the guy who dies messy and public with a warning's worth listening to.

voice »

[disheartening]

Are there people on this ship who do trust them?

voice »

[stacked]

World's full of dumbasses.

[ so, yes. ]

voice »

[disheartening]

It would seem so, yes.

voice »

[stacked]

[ there's a moment where faith is quiet, the silence almost measuring. ]

'm Faith.

voice »

[disheartening]

Regina Mills.

A pleasure.

voice »

[stacked]

Same, I guess.

[ not rude, just really awkward with manners. ]

Sorry I'm not big into the hoodoo spells. We-- a guy from home was here for a while, he was the guy you want for magic. I'm just the muscle.

voice »

[disheartening]

What was his name, if I may ask?

voice »

[stacked]

Wes-- uh, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Big on lots of fancy sounding names over in Jolly Olde.

voice »

[disheartening]

If he ever returns, I will know to speak to him of it.

voice »

[stacked]

He shows back up, I'll toss him your name. Could always use somebody to talk geek to.

...Angel's more about the fight, but he's not bad with magic either. Could throw you his number.

voice »

[disheartening]

I think I have spoke to him, Angel. Not a very common name.