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Navarch Safta Minerva ([personal profile] navarch) wrote in [community profile] returnjourneynet2022-01-20 09:14 am

TRAVEL ADVISORY

[At precisely 7 A.M. on the Peregrine's standard time, both CommLink screens and wardens' cabin control panels flicker to life with a live video stream.

The Navarch herself stands in the observatory. Outer space ahead is just stars with a thin yellow streak of light across the middle.]


Good morning, passengers.

Tomorrow we will be passing through an asteroid belt. Our shields are quite formidable and built for navigating these occasional obstacles, but you may notice slight vibrations, tremors, and adjustments through the Peregrine's systems to accommodate the additional power needed for full operation. It is my hope that these fluctuations will be almost entirely unnoticeable, but as this is the ship's first astroid field since its recommissioning, it may be more turbulent than usual.

[A beatific smile.]

When I passed through my first asteroid field, I found it difficult to sleep. If it eludes you as it did me, reflect upon that some cultures consider one's first passage through these circumstances a rite everyone must take at least once in their life. What it means varies from culture to culture, but perhaps you will discover what it means to you.

And if you still cannot sleep, see the infirmary; I trust we have a warden capable of dispensing sleep aids.

[They will, however, give users incredibly exuberant technicolor dreams about cartoon unicorns. An inconvenient side effect, but sleep is sleep.]
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2022-01-22 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[All he's doing is making her more curious. Unfortunately, she's all too familiar with terrible things being done to people, and how that leaves them after the fact. It strikes a familiar note.]

You don't need to justify anything to me, James. I understand.
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[personal profile] counterstep 2022-01-22 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
i know
i know it probably makes you wonder even more what the hell happened too
it's only natural

but i'm saying it because i respect you enough to tell you where the line is
it's not about justifying it so much as telling you why wondering is a meaningless exercise and the present matters more
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2022-01-22 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Wondering isn't really something I can control, but I respect you enough to not cross the line I now know exists. I'll just leave it as I'm sorry you've had to endure so much, even after the war, but you seem like a nice man regardless. That's admirable.
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[personal profile] counterstep 2022-01-22 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
my ma taught me right
and having seen the worst, it seems like a waste to add on to it anymore i guess

not really worth engaging a lot of the shit stirring going on around here either, but i'm human and still get bored enough sometimes
nineteenfortyfive: (STORIES)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2022-01-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
If only you had a neighbor with some common ground to hang out with when bored.
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[personal profile] counterstep 2022-01-22 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
haha
i might just start hanging around in warden command more

i think we could all use some face time
easier to work with people you've spent real time with

maybe that's what william needs
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2022-01-22 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like a good idea. I suspect you'll see me there.

I've spoken to William in person, before. Wasn't much better of an experience. But I'll give him another chance.
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[personal profile] counterstep 2022-01-22 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
glad to hear it

that's the spirit