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[it's a video feed, not that it helps much. not when the screen is almost pitch black. she's hidden away somewhere, the lights cut and the only illumination in the room coming from an empty bottle of jack daniel's; the current home of three glowing bioslugs, hidden beneath an unfamiliar pile of cloth and only barely letting out any of the blue glow coming from that bottle.]

Some asshole once told me how important it was to stay in the light. [hi riddick] I guess that shit's true no matter where you go.

[she leans closer to the camera, her expression almost amused as she continues--]

So, anybody wanna fill me in on what's really out there?

[out in the deserted corridors that keep throwing her back out]

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[a thoughtful look as he considers the question being posed here, as well as how exactly one goes about answering said question.

because wow kyra it's not exactly a simple answer.]

I guess that kind of depends on what you've seen.

A whole lotta darkness and not much else.

[because she keeps getting spat back out. keeps making it all of a few hundred feet before she's back where she started each time. and spoiler: she hates it]

I don't know how satisfying any answer I could give you would be. Because the thing is, I don't think what you see out there is always the same, from person to person.

Or even just for one person multiple times.

[sketching a hand through the air in front of him.] Mostly it's not very nice things. Sometimes there's creepy murals on the walls. Sometimes you hear tapping behind the walls.

Pictures and tapping. That's it?

[because that's kind of tame on the level of bad shit she's expecting to hear about]

[a sigh as he rubs his hand over his face.]

Like I said, it's not very easy to just describe. It's the experience, not the specifics.

It's about getting into your mind and unsettling you, not about jumps and cheap scares or monsters under the bed. [some of his best friends are monsters under the bed, after all. or well, something like that anyway.]

Didn't anyone tell you not to be stupid?

[ BEST FIRST IMPRESSION EVER, GO. ]

Didn't anyone ever tell you to mind your own fucking business if you've got nothing useful to say?

[derek are you secretly riddick]

That was useful. If you're looking to go out there then you're an idiot.

What is that? That light you have.

[well that's...not what she was expecting. but there's a glance to her side, over at the bottle of bioslugs. the feed moves as she pulls the cloth off the top of it, keeping her face out sight as she gives him a closer look. she doesn't have an actual name for them, so--]

Bugs from a planet I stayed on.

Do they eat anything? How are you going to feed them?

[ and then, like an afterthought-- ]

Which planet?

Not all monsters stay in the dark.

Which is why you've gotta learn how to watch your own back.

Good advice.

[ a pause. ]

It's a big ship. A lot of people have a lot of theories. Sometimes they go test them and get lost, or die.

[ what she's saying is, learn to love ignorance. ]

Need me to say it again?

Need you to back off and leave me alone.

[never mind that she's clinging to the 40% of her that actually means it]

[He could deny that, like he hasn't been keeping track of her, or point out that she was the one saying shit like that on the network when she knew it was going to get his attention. Instead he just ignores it.]

Nothing you wanna see out there, Kyra.

[Nothing she wants seeing her, and he's serious on it, needs her safe. But his tone still turns amused as he adds,]

Stay in the light.

Not all light's good around here...

Never said it was. Light's easy though.

Here's an idea. Why don't you go out and see for yourself?

You tried?

[because she has, and that's why she's resorted to posting this message]

Yes. I went with this guy, who I thought knew what he was doing. But as it turns out, he wasn't any better than anyone else. I'd like him to prove me wrong. I don't think he will.

This was after the time people went out and died, by the way. We just ended up back where we started.

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