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FROM: oerbayun.fang@cdc.org
Mayer, Re-L. M01C12-452.
Mayer, Re-L. M01C12-452.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
Others have expressed interest. But no. Not yet.
Are you near the rover?
Others have expressed interest. But no. Not yet.
Are you near the rover?
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
Just my ass?
Now you're getting lazy.
Just my ass?
Now you're getting lazy.
[ HI DAGGER so nice to see you again :> Only...minus the actually sight part of it. But aren't you glad? This time it's work-related. ]
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Your assignment is to challenge a senior Red Team recruit to a fight. You win the fight, you pass your assignment.
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Ψ(｀∀´)Ψ
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Piece no.1017117. Wang He Ming. Your assignment is to challenge a senior Red Team recruit to a fight.
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Your assignment is to challenge a senior Red Team recruit to a fight. You win the fight, you pass your assignment.
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Ψ(｀∀´)Ψ
FROM: scavenger.1017117@cdc.org
Piece no.1017117. Wang He Ming. Your assignment is to challenge a senior Red Team recruit to a fight.
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I like to make things hard for myself. You like it sometimes.
I like to make things hard for myself. You like it sometimes.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
I like it most times.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
But this sounds like all talk, Dagger.
I like it most times.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
But this sounds like all talk, Dagger.
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I'm just waiting on you to show up.
I'm just waiting on you to show up.
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
My bed, your bed. Come over.
My bed, your bed. Come over.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
Take your helmet off.
I'll be there in a minute.
Take your helmet off.
I'll be there in a minute.
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Let's just nuke everything.
Let's just nuke everything.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
I've been in my bunk all day.
Mostly.
I've been in my bunk all day.
Mostly.
[ Warriorhead doesn't knock. He's accustomed to being expected, and by extension, to being catered to. Some part of this has adjusted in his time with the CDC, and yet-
He stands outside the bunk regardless, waiting to be ushered in, and occupies himself by replying verbally into the space. ]
You're pretty worried about my hands.
He stands outside the bunk regardless, waiting to be ushered in, and occupies himself by replying verbally into the space. ]
You're pretty worried about my hands.
[ Dagger is all too used to being in service, too, having been a worker drone back home. And the habits of one such drone still sticks, what with it being coded into his very person; serving others is easier than leading.
And then he got promoted, and it's been a weird ride ever since.
He lets Warriorhead in with little ceremony, gives him a reasonable berth to move in before shutting the rover door behind them. ]
I like your hands.
And then he got promoted, and it's been a weird ride ever since.
He lets Warriorhead in with little ceremony, gives him a reasonable berth to move in before shutting the rover door behind them. ]
I like your hands.
[ It is a considerable difference- the transition between the common quarters of their rover to the narrow, quieter confines of a bunk. There is less for him to take note of here- the fluctuation of sound, light, temperature, electricity.
It is only Dagger and himself.
His head cants, helmet catching the light. ]
Why?
It is only Dagger and himself.
His head cants, helmet catching the light. ]
Why?
When they're covered, and they don't burn? It's like. . .
[ Well, he doesn't have the word for it. The problem with Keluuvi language, is that it's about the omissions, not the inclusions. And there's no complete word for what he's lacking here. It's like imagining a whole picture that he hasn't seen, then trying to describe the parts that he doesn't know is missing.
So instead, Dagger unlatches his thermal jacket, and unhooks the metal contraption across his right shoulder. There are still hairline fractures over his core, but it's been healed over. With his own gloves still on, he taps Warriorhead on one knee. ]
Almost whole. I don't think we have a word for it.
[ Well, he doesn't have the word for it. The problem with Keluuvi language, is that it's about the omissions, not the inclusions. And there's no complete word for what he's lacking here. It's like imagining a whole picture that he hasn't seen, then trying to describe the parts that he doesn't know is missing.
So instead, Dagger unlatches his thermal jacket, and unhooks the metal contraption across his right shoulder. There are still hairline fractures over his core, but it's been healed over. With his own gloves still on, he taps Warriorhead on one knee. ]
Almost whole. I don't think we have a word for it.
[ Helictite has never expressed much interest in worlds beyond their own. At least, this had been the decision of it's governing body. If others wished to share a connection with the Rejehejet'e, then the burden of establishing contact would lie with them. As a result, diplomacy was not considered essential curriculum. What reason was there to teach their successors how to navigate the language and customs of others?
While Warriorhead had rejected these values, he had not benefited from the lessons he might have learned. His service in the CDC has been his teacher, and it has been an interesting time.
Here and now, he understands that there is a sense that Dagger is unable to convey. Warriorhead does not consider this a failure on his part so much as he finds intrigue in the novelty. The treasuring of something that has no linguistic equivalent. Warriorhead's attention falls to the cracks across Dagger's core. He considers touching it simply because he can. ]
Covered by armor? [ He asks instead. ]
While Warriorhead had rejected these values, he had not benefited from the lessons he might have learned. His service in the CDC has been his teacher, and it has been an interesting time.
Here and now, he understands that there is a sense that Dagger is unable to convey. Warriorhead does not consider this a failure on his part so much as he finds intrigue in the novelty. The treasuring of something that has no linguistic equivalent. Warriorhead's attention falls to the cracks across Dagger's core. He considers touching it simply because he can. ]
Covered by armor? [ He asks instead. ]
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