Video: Y'all need therapy

[acapriciousthing]

[Death's sitting in what is clearly a passenger room, but not decorated in any particularly personal way.]

Hey. Bit of a month we've had, isn't it?

I'm not a trained therapist or anything. [Being older than psychology and all] But my job usually means running into people when they're at their worst. So I've gotten pretty good at listening.

I've grabbed room one on deck nine of the passenger quarters if anyone just wants someone to talk to. Or just wants tea and cookies. I promise that at my age, there's pretty much nothing you can tell me that I haven't heard before at some point. And it's never my place to judge or spill your secrets to someone else.

((OOC: Feel free to answer on the network or just action on down to her "office"))

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[talkingaintdoin]

Thinking after the last week we've had, might need your services. When are you available?

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[acapriciousthing]

I mostly do night shifts in support since I don't sleep. So I'm available most of the day.

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[talkingaintdoin]

Coming off a shift in SEC in a few hours. Are you available then?

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[acapriciousthing]

I am. So far the only other appointment's later than that.

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[talkingaintdoin]

Be there then.

[True to her word, after her shift in SEC and giving a quick verbal report to Tyke, Zoë heads up to the ninth floor, looking for this office. She finds it and heads in, seeing the young-ish girl in all black.]

You know, you're not exactly what I pictured when I heard there was an actual Death aboard the ship.

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[acapriciousthing]

[She gives a gentle smile]

I get that a lot. The way I see it, dying is scary enough without me adding to that.

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[talkingaintdoin]

[The former soldier hangs by the door, not sure what it is she should be doing here. She knows that what she saw has effected her, but she's not sure if she can articulate that, especially to a stranger.]

Seen a lot of death in my life, not too keen on seeing my own, dong ma?

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[acapriciousthing]

[Death nods and waves her toward a chair]

Yeah, I understand.

[Including the Chinese]

Your own death is always a different case.

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[talkingaintdoin]

[Zoë eyes the chair before sitting down. She's not comfortable about it, but she's the one who initiated it all.

And it's nice to not have to try and translate everything.]

Not really my death that's been bothering me. Always assumed that'd just happen during a firefight, considering how I live.

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You're not asking for anything in return...?

[acapriciousthing]

No, I just want to help everyone get through this.

[circumitus]

Why?

[Just curious. Not many people would put themselves through that kind of torture pro bono.]

[acapriciousthing]

I like people.

[No one really expects her to, but she does]

[circumitus]

[Well, we'll just see about that.]

Will you be around in, say, five hours? [She's in the middle of patrol.]

[acapriciousthing]

Yeah.

I don't sleep, it leaves me with a pretty flexible schedule.

[circumitus]

As in, you literally do not sleep, or you're one of those workaholic types?

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Suppose it's possible to be both.

[acapriciousthing]

Literally don't sleep.

Which made adjusting to not working constantly... interesting.

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[toomuchtenacity]

Is talking supposed to help with stuff?

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[acapriciousthing]

Yeah. Sometimes just explaining what's going on to someone else can make a solution clearer.

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[toomuchtenacity]

Okay. And this is something you won't talk to others about?

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[acapriciousthing]

Of course. It'll be just between you and me.

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[toomuchtenacity]

....I suppose I could try it.

[It's her head and she doesn't like to open up to people because what's in there is for her alone ...but those boggarts. She could give it a try.]

When can I come down?

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[acapriciousthing]

I usually take the night shifts for support. So I can be around during most of the waking hours.

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[toomuchtenacity]

Okay.

Tomorrow afternoon? I can finish up in the gardens early.

[Chell you spend almost all your hours there, you are allowed a day off.]

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[acapriciousthing]

That sounds good. Just drop on by.