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Re: Ice Queen Of All She Surveys
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Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:48 pm
by Siberia
"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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Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:01 pm
by Samantha McManus
"I guess there is a certain kind of... belonging that comes from that."
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Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:05 pm
by Siberia
"Fewer questions about what you should do. Decisions are straight forward."
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Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:32 pm
by Samantha McManus
"Sometimes it just... works. I'm not sure what that says about me."
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Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:42 pm
by Siberia
"That deep down, at least some part of you is a warrior and likes being one."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:40 am
by Samantha McManus
"And is that how you feel about it?"
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:45 am
by Siberia
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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Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:52 am
by Samantha McManus
"To your superiors, you mean."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:54 am
by Siberia
"To everything we've fought for," Siberia countered.
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:59 am
by Samantha McManus
"I'm not saying that isn't important, but it's not all that's important, aye?"
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:08 am
by Siberia
"Nothing else is more important," Siberia said automatically.
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:10 am
by Samantha McManus
"I didn't say more important."
"But I'm not reporting back to Moscow, aye?"
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:20 am
by Siberia
"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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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:26 am
by Samantha McManus
"You said you go after what you want. So that's what you want?"
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:35 am
by Siberia
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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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:39 am
by Samantha McManus
"...alright, alright."
"We'll just... chalk that up to another way you're like her."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:50 am
by Siberia
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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Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:52 am
by Samantha McManus
"Not quite how I meant it, but fair enough."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:02 am
by Siberia
"What did you mean?" She looked at her suspiciously.
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:03 am
by Samantha McManus
"I mean you're both bloody hard to convince that you have a future."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:04 am
by Siberia
"I have a future. That you don't like my future is on you."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:10 am
by Samantha McManus
"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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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:29 am
by Siberia
"Prying is a good way to lose your fingers," Siberia says.
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:38 am
by Samantha McManus
"Didn't say I had much sense with things that bite, either."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:28 pm
by Siberia
"Just so we're clear, I have no bark, just the bite."
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Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:24 pm
by Samantha McManus
"Wouldn't want it any other way."
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:28 pm
by Siberia
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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:34 pm
by Samantha McManus
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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:39 pm
by Narrator
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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:44 pm
by Siberia
"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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:48 pm
by Samantha McManus
"...have to tell her it works as a night light," she mumbles to herself as she follows.
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:54 pm
by Narrator
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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:59 pm
by Siberia
"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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:03 pm
by Samantha McManus
"...your crew is better trained than this," she says to Siberia.
It isn't a question.
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:05 pm
by Siberia
"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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:08 pm
by Samantha McManus
"I mean the air here about stinks of fear. This isn't normal."
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:11 pm
by Siberia
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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:13 pm
by Samantha McManus
"Do you have something against telepaths? Because this is an awful time to have this discussion."
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:19 pm
by Siberia
"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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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:20 pm
by Samantha McManus
"I've got nothing to hide."