headed somewhere new soon.

[tobecaprican]

Yes, hello.

The last time we did this, I didn't need any sort of vacation at all, and I wound up on a cruiseliner down a river Styx where, if I didn't have the pleasure of being comatose, I was subjected to all sorts of torment and mindfraks and, every other day, therapy. This time, I could stand a break, and apparently the weather's nice this time of year?

Forgive me if I don't believe you when you say there isn't a catch.

Comments

[ipseite]

There are invariably and without fail strings attached.

[tobecaprican]

It'll be fun, she said. Stop worrying so much, she said. I know not to believe a word.

[ipseite]

The last time I found myself in such a position, a game attempt was made to eat me.

[tobecaprican]

--really?

[ipseite]

One doesn't soon forget.

[tobecaprican]

I imagine you wouldn't, no.

And then they get all het up when we dig in our heels a little. Mine has never been very good at 'full disclosure'.

[ipseite]

I suspect it isn't an unfamiliarity with 'informed decision-making', but rather an over-familiarity.

[ IN OTHER WORDS THEY WOULD ALL SAY HELL NO ]

[tobecaprican]

[ Ponder this, then, sullenly; ]

Still.

[ipseite]

Quite.

[wontbeforgotten]

There's generally always a catch, somehow or rather.

[Not that she is being taken to any of these games, but still.]

[tobecaprican]

If the small matter of a robot apocalypse taught us anything.

[the_hard_6ix]

The mundanes wouldn't have any fun if there wasn't a catch.

[tobecaprican]

That's particularly un-reassuring, thanks ever so.

[the_hard_6ix]

Do you think I would have any fun if I were reassuring?

Where is she sending you? It could probably be worse than the prison ship, but maybe not by much. [Six, you are a pal. Sheesh.]

[wontbeforgotten]

One thing among many, yeah.

[tobecaprican]

To a city. She's sending me to a city. One she's helping to build herself, point of fact.

With that sort of engineering genius, I'm sure it'll be grand.

[tobecaprican]

That being said, Kara Thrace, you've never struck me as the kind that learns lessons easily.

[wontbeforgotten]

You know me. The resident viper frak up.

[tobecaprican]

I rather like that about you, though. I've never been one for that sort of thing either.

[wontbeforgotten]

Heh. I'm just too damned stubborn to really learn, apparently. "Beyond insane" I think was Apollo's exact words at one point.