( 08 ) voice ✵ tell me what is it i should do when i'm swimming in the liquor only half way through

[stacked]

[ faith has exactly one concern in all this bullshit: empathy is not so much her gig. ]

So, seems like everybody's all about sharing and caring. And that's cool, whatever gets you off. Play Missed Connections on the Love Boat from hell all night long— have a blast, I don't give a shit.

But just in case anybody else gets any bright ideas about 'maybe we should talk about it'— [ gdi topher— ] maybe nothing, get me? You think you picked my brain, sucks to be you but don't blame me, I didn't sign up for this crap and I don't wanna know about it. I got zero desire to talk about whatever anybody thinks they saw, end of story.

[ because not-terribly-blissful ignorance is better than pity!!! or something. she's emotionally healthy. ]

And just so everybody clear, I'm talking the kind of leave me out of it I'll throw some muscle behind backing up. Keep it zipped and to yourself or I'll break it off, it's nothing I wanna look at.

[ and with the snick of a lighter and a mumbled curse then a long inhale, she's out. ]

Comments

[stacked]

It's, shit. What. Coming up on like, jump twenty five? So, uh... whatever's seven minus that. Eighteen jumps, I guess.

[tinytactician]

[Give him a moment...]

Eighteen months?

[stacked]

If you think they last a month, sure. I don't try the math.

[tinytactician]

More or less its a rough estimate, it --

-- I'm so sorry. That's a...a long time.

[stacked]

[ she shrugs, a little awkward. sympathy: also not her gig. ]

Is what it is, nothing to be sorry about. Not like it's all that different from what I got waiting at home, anyhow.

[tinytactician]

[Uh-oh, now she's piqued his curiosity and he'll beam at her, excited.] Do you also live on a space ship?

[stacked]

Nah, more it just kinda sucks.

[tinytactician]

Oh. [Cue disappointed face.] That seems to be a common theme, here.

[stacked]

Kind of a common theme where I'm from, too.

[tinytactician]

That is what I meant. Most people here seem to have come out of...unpleasant circumstances.