[on apping to lastvoyages]

[twooutoften]

You know this ain't gonna ever work, right?  I mean, shit.  I know you just did that review thing, you know as well as I do how this is gonna all play out.  I show up, make nice for a while, then sooner or later somethin'll come up and I'll fuck it all to hell.  You know I will, I always do.  Couldn't even manage that whole noble death thing, could I, Sam had to go clean up my mess anyway, and don't think I don't know about that.  Kinda what happens when you keep watchin'.  An' sure, you think I deserve a shot, and I appreciate that an' all, but.

C'mon.  I've seen the kind of shit that goes down there.  I'm pretty much fucked from the word go anyhow.

But fine.  I'll do what I can, alright?  Since you seem so sure about this, an' it's not like I got a choice or anything.  Big surprise there; you and Joe Lee should go grab a brew sometime, you'd get along great.

Don't think I'm gonna listen to whoever gets assigned to me though.  Like some human gets anything.


...And that Perry guy?  Better not be throwin' any damn frisbees either, or I'll bite his fucking hand off.  That ain't funny.

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[hartbreaker]

Hey, you there. I know you're having this, like, big monologue speech or whatever, and that's great. Really great and, uh. Moving or something. But, see, you mentioned a very good friend of mine. Now I just gotta ask why he'd be throwin' some frisbees. That's just not something he does. I've never seen it, anyway. So I could be wrong. I once tried bugging him to adopt this kitten he found and, well, here I am, still kitten-less. The guy's a total neat freak...

[BACK UP. What was his point? Sorry, he got lost in it. Narration habits die hard.]

Okay so anyway. Perry. Frisbee. What?

[twooutoften]

...wow, you just talk an' talk, dontcha.

Fuck if I know, it was somethin' a bunch of those writer guys were talkin' about. Mine thought I didn't see it, but. I did.

[SO MANY suspicious looks.]

Why d'you care?

[hartbreaker]

What? No, I never said I cared. Just was curious. See, there's a difference. It's in the dictionary, look it up.

Anyway, the whole talking thing? It's a habit. Got used to it, trying to break it, it's just a Thing. Try narrating your own life and then see if you can stop doing it. Betcha you can't.

[twooutoften]

Why would I narrate my life? Sounds pretty pointless, not to mention stupid.

[burnmythoughts]

Hey. If you go into this ready to fail, then...yeah, you might.

But if you try - who says you can't make it work? It might be hard, but it sounds like you've gone through some pretty hard stuff already.

There's no reason it has to turn out badly, not this time. Not if you don't let it.

[twooutoften]

...lemme guess, you got the warden straw. Sucks to be you.

It ain't that I won't try; I always try. Just never seems to work out, that's all.

But fuck it. Who needs 'em anyway?

[burnmythoughts]

Here's hoping. [Her smile's kind of wry.]

That's the spirit. I think.

[twooutoften]

You gonna try that pep talk thing over there too?

[He doesn't trust it. It's nothing personal.]

[burnmythoughts]

I...guess it depends on the person.

I've never really done this before.

[twooutoften]

Well that's reassuring.

[doobydoobydooba]

[That was rude. What's he ever do to you?]

[twooutoften]

[...whut. What is that.

It has a hat; Tommy is Confused. And so is just blinking and staring.]

[nolongerhollow]

Not all of the Wardens are human or humanocentric. My Warden is not; I am not and will become one soon. And there are people in place who are working to protect the rights of nonhumans there.

[twooutoften]

...uh-huh. Ain't what I meant, but alright. Just meant they don't get it, not that they got somethin' against it.

[nolongerhollow]

Oh sorry. Well, the point is, there are a number of people there who would at least try.

[twooutoften]

Yeah, well. Not my problem. I got my own shit to deal with, I don't need somebody else stickin' their nose in an' tellin' me how to fix it, you know? It's my deal. None of their business.

[nolongerhollow]

Mmmhm. Tell me, would you say that you've been particularly good at getting your life together without help?

[twooutoften]

I do alright. Ain't like anybody else's ever been much help.