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[alsohawkeye]

[ The camera is met with an angry-looking Kate, one angle of her jaw flexing as teeth clench. Her forearms are folded on the tabletop in front of her and she leans her weight onto them. The way she launches right in gives the impression she's been holding back this bad mood for a while before giving in. ]

Okay, so first of all, whoever stole my bow at the jump: bring it back. It's a cheap piece of crap anyway and it's not like we have arrows laying around but it's the only one I have here and there aren't any more in the armory and it's not exactly an inconspicuous weapon so what are you even going to do with it without me finding you?? Seriously, just bring it back before you damage it somehow and I promise I won't hit you with it no matter how tempted I am.

And speaking of people around here being total assholes [ Because whatever, she's started now and trying to make her no-hitting promise sincere just has the frustration shunting off into another topic, ], is someone turning people into animals seriously allowed now? That's just a thing we're cool with, going to let that slide on by, no brig time involved? [ She's not generally a very animated speaker but her hands twist off the table into the air into a 'seriously?' gesture. ] FYI never annoy this Gold guy because I guess he can just turn you into a cat if he feels like it and nobody will ever do anything. If I disappear after posting this be on the look-out for new pets wandering around or something. On second thought maybe that'd be a nice change from this place's bullshit for a while. Gold, if you're watching, just make it a dog or a bird or something, alright? Cool.

[ It's hard to make a dramatic exit on a touch-screen device but she pushes the STOP button as abruptly as she can anyway. Hawkeye out. Nope, wait, spoke too soon. It starts up again after a second just long enough for her to shout: ]

And bring me back my god damn bow!

[ Okay, now it's done. ]

Comments

[humanistic]

And is all of that enough t' discourage you from going back out this month?

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate actually laughs, lightly and briefly. ] Of course not.

[humanistic]

Well. That either makes you someone really brave, or someone that doesn't learn a lesson the first time. I guess we'll have to see which one it is.

[It's a mostly light response, which helps to keep it from coming off as totally rude or cruel.

Mostly, anyways.]

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate's reply is light as well, dryly sassed rather than offended. ] They're not exactly mutually exclusive, first of all, and since everyone came back totally unharmed the first time it's not like it's completely insane to be going back out. We've got to figure out how this ship works somehow or we're all going to be stuck here forever.

[humanistic]

Yeah, and those are really odds that I'd really want to take. D'you think it's as easy as that? People have been here for years.

[Depressingly, he's been here for over a year himself, but he leaves that unmentioned.]

[alsohawkeye]

No, I don't think anything about it is easy. But it's a big ship, even in two years people haven't done everything. It doesn't sound like they've tried this before. In any case, sitting around doing nothing isn't really my style.

[humanistic]

Anyone ever called you an overachiever before?

[Still kind of a joke!]

Do we say our bon voyages now, or do we wait until you're actually heading out into the shit?

[alsohawkeye]

Now and then. I got 'precocious' much more often. [ She flashes him a smile, and then shrugs as it tilts. ] Whichever? If I don't come back help yourself to the space movie collection I've been working on.

[humanistic]

Oh yeah?

[He sounds a little too hopeful about that, but come on a space movie collection--]

I mean, not that I'm hoping you get dragged into some black hole out there, or anything. Space Rocky was just a re-ally nice departure from space Rambo another seven thousand times.

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate laughs, not offended. ] Wow, thanks. But that is a lot of Rambo, I guess I can understand. I mean if I come back I will share? I'm attempting to branch out into space movies that aren't immediately recognizable as knock-offs. It's been pretty hit or miss so far.

[humanistic]

I tried that once, the real space film thing. We ended up with some really creepy soft-core space porn.

Definitely stick to the knock-offs if you can.