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cape_kore2014-01-02 05:06 pm
blackmagus) wrote in cape_kore2014-01-02 05:06 pm
013 ✳ day 149 ✳ audio
[She isn't showing her face over the network, but still, Fortescue's voice sounds almost as bad as her numerous injuries. It wobbles every so often, from the abuse it's taken, and she can't even drum up the emotion to be angry about her lack of control over it. It is what is is.]
Hello, Science Center. Miss me? [Fortescue holds the phone away from her face, for a moment, to cough. She might sound dry, but she really is grateful to be back. Very grateful.] Had this place let me remember, I would have been able to return the favor.
...I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but I'm not... especially mobile, and the canteen is quite a distance from my room. If anyone feels like being generous, I wouldn't mind a snack. [Or maybe more than a snack, but she doesn't feel worthy enough, anymore, to ask for more than that. What is she, aside from a person who failed in her most basic duties as a sister?
She almost asks for alcohol, too, just for the hell of it, but she doesn't. She cuts the feed after a quick,]
Thank you.
Hello, Science Center. Miss me? [Fortescue holds the phone away from her face, for a moment, to cough. She might sound dry, but she really is grateful to be back. Very grateful.] Had this place let me remember, I would have been able to return the favor.
...I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but I'm not... especially mobile, and the canteen is quite a distance from my room. If anyone feels like being generous, I wouldn't mind a snack. [Or maybe more than a snack, but she doesn't feel worthy enough, anymore, to ask for more than that. What is she, aside from a person who failed in her most basic duties as a sister?
She almost asks for alcohol, too, just for the hell of it, but she doesn't. She cuts the feed after a quick,]
Thank you.
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[ Not many people have nice things they can say about Alec. Not even Max. Maybe one or two, but she's not sticking her neck out on the line because she likes him. She does it because it's the right thing to do and that's what Max does. The right thing. Alec just messes up a bunch and does the wrong thing. ]
I'm really good at dumb mistakes. [ He shifts his stance and back stepss to lean back against her now shut door. ] Kinda my expertise. You okay?
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But that's not what happened, so she sits on her bed, shrugs, but—] No, not really.
[She can be honest, now. Finally. No longer does Imperium pay her to lie for a living.]
Got some bad news, quit my job. Sort of figuring everything out from the ground up, now.
[That's an incredibly simplified version of it, but it is the truth.]