hadriel | 002✖; (voice)

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002✖; (voice)

"Good news is, it would seem it's true, in that it's possible to return home. The bad news is that it's also possible to be bounced back here like it never happened. Lost -- or gained, depending on how you look at it -- about three weeks of time. Some shit, is what it was."

[Rey wants her money back.

[Also she sounds like hell, and the only reason she isn't resorting to text is because she can't keep her hands still long enough to manage the letters. Her voice, similarly, is strained and shaky, but that's why she isn't using the video function. Her face looks much worse.]

"Secondly, it appears that the dam is active. We now have hydroelectricity to help power the city. That's one less thing for Hope to bitch about, so don't break it.

"It's still going to need upkeep from time to time, though. Going to handle that personally, but am going to need some help with that right now." [Pause.] "Please."

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You'll get used to it.

How long will it take for you to heal? Any idea?

[Will she, Sharon? WILL SHE?]

Not long. Perhaps a few days to a week, no worries.

I'd say 'not too many worries'. If one of the gods decide to act up before you're healed, it could be bad.

Right, fingers crossed that they have more decency to wait until after the feeling of being steamrolled subsides before they try anything.

It'd be a nice courtesy.

Have only been here for a few months, but have noticed that courtesy doesn't seem to be part of their agenda.

A girl can dream, can't she?

In this place?

Not really.

[Is that smartassery detected?]

You're an ass. [ but she says it in such a way that it comes out light hearted ]

Been called such things -- and worse -- on more than one occasion, yes.

[Shut your sass, Rey. Your stupid deadpan sass.]

I am not surprised at all for some reason.

...

[sigh]

You can my brother would probably get along swimmingly.

Oh? [ She had no idea Rey had a brother, but it's not as if she's asked, or even tried to pry too much into the other woman's life: it's her life, and her business. ] I hope that's a good thing.

Well, he's a pain in the ass. [Pause.] But he's also a decent person, so...

[A better person than she is, in Rey's opinion.]

[ does that mean you think she's a decent person? because it catches her off guard. ]

He sounds a little like you so far. [ A decent pain in the ass. ]

[Rey has no reason to think Sharon isn't a decent person, so yes. Enjoy that.]

Not really. He's better, and he's lived a better life.

[Though neither of them had a say in the sorts of lives they were dealt living.]

It's not the lives we've led that make us better people, but the lives we're trying to lead now.

You pick that one out of a Chinese proverb book or something?

[Way to try and deflect the point, Ruh.]

It's true, whether or not it is a Chinese proverb. [ she's seen crouching tiger hidden dragon. that is her extent of knowledge on China. that, and what she learned in 9th grade world history class. ]

[Close enough, right?]

Whatever. [Huff.] Have made some pretty fucked up choices in this current life, in that case.

[At least she acknowledges this fact now, rather than trying to rationalize her recent mistakes.]

That's okay. We all fuck up sometimes. [ mistakes happen, milk spills, and life goes on. ] When we recognize that, we become better.

This was more of a... [How to put this?] ..."someone was killed" sort of fuck-up.

Actually, killed a lot of someones. If you could consider them people.

[But synthetics aren't people, right? ...Oh.]

So? I've killed a lot of someones, too. [ Most of them deserved. Maybe all of them did. ] I'm different now. Aren't you?

One of those someones might've been someone important to... someone else.

[Well, technically, a lot of the people Rey has killed was important to someone else. But this one is someone she actually knows, and that just breeds all kinds of awkward.]

Does that bother you? Do you feel guilty about it?