Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:48 pm

"I haven't really daydreamed of that luxury. Find somewhere nice to live and start a family, I suppose. But there always seems to be call for warriors."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:01 pm

"I guess there is a certain kind of... belonging that comes from that."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:05 pm

"Fewer questions about what you should do. Decisions are straight forward."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:32 pm

"Sometimes it just... works. I'm not sure what that says about me."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:42 pm

"That deep down, at least some part of you is a warrior and likes being one."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:40 am

"And is that how you feel about it?"
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:45 am

After some silence, "How I feel about it is irrelevant. I'm good at what I do and doing what I'm good at is all that matters."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:52 am

"To your superiors, you mean."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:54 am

"To everything we've fought for," Siberia countered.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:59 am

"I'm not saying that isn't important, but it's not all that's important, aye?"
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:08 am

"Nothing else is more important," Siberia said automatically.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:10 am

"I didn't say more important."

"But I'm not reporting back to Moscow, aye?"
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:20 am

"You asked me what I'll do when this ends... For me, it doesn't get to end. Even when we crush the Order in the Savage Land, there will be years of mopping up and there will always be some group who wants to take their place. Some of us don't get happy endings or retirement, so that others can have those things."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:26 am

"You said you go after what you want. So that's what you want?"
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:35 am

Siberia looked at her sharply, "My wants are short term and temporary by necessity. The less said about them the better."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:39 am

"...alright, alright."

"We'll just... chalk that up to another way you're like her."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:50 am

Siberia stared at Sam, then turned back to the horizon. "If you're able to return to her, then maybe you can understand how important her mission is to her, assuming she has one."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:52 am

"Not quite how I meant it, but fair enough."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:02 am

"What did you mean?" She looked at her suspiciously.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:03 am

"I mean you're both bloody hard to convince that you have a future."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:04 am

"I have a future. That you don't like my future is on you."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:10 am

"I can honestly say I've gotten this far by having an absolute awful sense of when to stop prying," she sighs, hoping to defuse things.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:29 am

"Prying is a good way to lose your fingers," Siberia says.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:38 am

"Didn't say I had much sense with things that bite, either."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:28 pm

"Just so we're clear, I have no bark, just the bite."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:24 pm

"Wouldn't want it any other way."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:28 pm

A man steps out of the bridge, "<Admiral, alarms in the engine room.>"

"<Systems?>"

"<Systems read normal. A response team is investigating.>"

"<Thank you. I will look into it myself. Keep us on course.>" The man nodded and headed back into the bridge. Siberia turned to Sam, "We may have a problem. Come with me." Without another word, she leapt over the railing of the walkway, landing in a three point stance on the flight deck without any trouble, though much to the surprise of some of the crew working there. With the briefest of pauses, she starts striding towards one of the entrances deeper into the ship.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:34 pm

Sam nods, growing out the wings again and using them to control her own leap down to the flight deck with slightly less graceful results before pulling them in and following Siberia.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Narrator » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:39 pm

As they head into the bowels of the ship they inevitably come to a part of the ship that's pitch black. Moving down the stairwell one deck is lit up but anything below it seems to be without power, plunging it into darkness.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:44 pm

"Normally, I wouldn't worry about this, but this wouldn't have been reason enough to trigger an alarm," Siberia says, shrugging out of her long coat which leaves her arms bare. She folds it carefully over a nearby pipe and then takes a deep breath. The veins in her arms begin to glow with a soft blue-white light. Not enough to light everything up, but enough to keep them from tripping over something. The change also brings with a faint chill to the air.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:48 pm

"...have to tell her it works as a night light," she mumbles to herself as she follows.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Narrator » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:54 pm

The light is faint but it works to help them not trip down the steep metal stairs. Half the time they can only barely make out the walls around them and the descend feels even more claustrophobic than just moving through the cramped ship. It doesn't help that Sam can sense the people all around in the ship and even though they're trained soldiers, there's still a lot of fear hanging in the air. Almost too much for an experienced crew that surely trained how to act in worse circumstances, almost as if the atmosphere itself was influencing their minds...
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:59 pm

"I so much prefer the flight deck with its open space," Siberia comments as she stops at a corridor intersection, going over the ship's layout in her head.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:03 pm

"...your crew is better trained than this," she says to Siberia.

It isn't a question.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:05 pm

"Maintenance on a ship this old can be difficult, but my crew does a worthy job with what we have. Power out to a whole deck is rare, but it would not be the first time." She seemed to have completely missed Sam's implication.
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:08 pm

"I mean the air here about stinks of fear. This isn't normal."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:11 pm

Siberia turns to look at her and her eyes narrow, "So scenting emotions is a part of your power now as well? Or is there something you haven't told me?"
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:13 pm

"Do you have something against telepaths? Because this is an awful time to have this discussion."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Siberia » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:19 pm

"Not particularly," Siberia says, turning back towards the other passageways. "I've actually had relationships with several. I just don't like being kept in the dark."
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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:20 pm

"I've got nothing to hide."
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