012 - Bored Sammy

[bythe_books]

Hello?

Can anybody in 'port' receive this? What's going on?

...the silence is beginning to grow unnerving. What if they don't come back?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I seem still quite able to communicate with my warden, so I imagine that yes, people in port can see this. ...Not that my being able to talk to her has hastened her return any.

[bythe_books]

Has she told you anything at all about what's going on?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

No. Merely that she's too busy taking care of someone else's inmate to come and handle of necessary things here.

[bythe_books]

Like what?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

While you were busy in the washroom, I was attacked. Again.

[bythe_books]

Aren't you popular.

Why? Who did it?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

That Jim fellow did not appreciate my pointing out that nobody twisted his arm during his ordeals before coming here.

[bythe_books]

Ordeals?

Right. So, what'd he end up doing? You seemed fine.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

He threw both wine bottles at me. With luck they shattered on the wall above me and not against my skull.

[bythe_books]

What, just like that? You didn't do anything else to antagonise him?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I can tell already that answer will not matter. You'll just say that I provoked it whether I say so or not.

I know your sort.

[bythe_books]

Good to know I'm communicating with a mind reader. Hey, I've got some unsolved cases I'm sure you could solve.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

The truth hurts, doesn't it, dumpling?

Strikes readable

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we can see your journal entries. We're just a bit busy right now. We'll be fine. We'll come back. I hope.

[bythe_books]

What's happening there?

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Nothing. I mean, some aliens got in the colony. And they're bursting out of people's chests. But no one's none of our people are dead yet.

Everything's fine.

[bythe_books]

...that 'yet' doesn't sound terribly promising.

And-- wait. Wait. 'Bursting out of people's chests'?!

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I know that sounds...

We'll come back, okay? It probably takes days for these things to grow big enough to burst out, and the Barge wouldn't just leave them in us when we got back.

[bythe_books]

How reassuring.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

It's...shut up. We'll be fine.

[bythe_books]

Yeah, that's believable when you've got the crossed out "yet"s and "I hope"s. And you're telling me to shut up why, exactly?

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Because you don't seem to believe we're going to come out alive, that's why! We've got...people from all different worlds and dimensions here, and you don't believe that at least one of them will find a way to get us out alive.

[bythe_books]

You don't seem to believe it, either, judging by your own words.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

...

...

...bite me.

[bythe_books]

I'm applauding that show of maturity. Really. You'll make a fine Warden.