IC contact for lastvoyages

[cactusy]

[If I don't have an active post up, feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or knock on Shaw's door.]

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Re: february 16

[themostfun]

Oh, what a sweet boy. [ Seriously, that's the cutest thing he could do! ] Now that I'm back, though, I can't wait to fall asleep holding you.

[ What can she say. She's soft for her wife. ]

Re: february 16

[cactusy]

When you're asleep and you're touched, you still react. During the coma, though? Nothing.

[Like she said - weird!]

It was like you were dead without being dead.

Re: february 16

[themostfun]

No wonder you thought it was weird.

[ Being like a mannequin, lifeless while alive... that sounds awful for someone to have to watch. ]

I'm going to graduate, Sameen. I'm not letting Samaritan win. You won't be losing me any time soon.

Re: february 16

[cactusy]

[Shaw doesn't answer immediately, instead using the time to finish off the last of her pancakes, suck her fingers clean of butter and syrup, and wipe them dry on her pants. Then she pulls off her hoodie and tosses it on the floor, scooting up close to Root in only her bra. It's skin-to-skin time.]

All that's dependent on luck, and I don't count on luck.

[Which almost certainly sounds harsher than she intends it to, so she adds:]

Nothing lasts forever, especially for people like me. You already died once. As far as I'm concerned, everything that happens after that... it's a bonus. And I'm grateful for whatever time we get.

Re: february 16

[themostfun]

[ Root also finishes her pancakes, a smaller portion anyway. She is more than happy to be skin to skin right now.

There's no refuting Shaw's statement. For all the skills they both possess, and for all that Root has the Machine guiding her, there is always a bit of uncertainty. Luck adds thrill to the job, but with the way things have escalated back home, depending on luck would be akin to opening their arms to death. So where someone else might take Shaw's statement as cold and uncaring, Root sees it as grounded and positive. When you're just a blip on the grand scale of time, appreciating what you have is the best, fullest way to live. ]

So am I. [ She drapes her arms around Shaw shoulders. ] I'm gonna make it last as long as I can, because eating this extra time feels... rude.

Re: february 16

[cactusy]

I do believe you can graduate.

[But that's not the same thing as being sure that she will ; that she'll be given the time to. ]

Re: february 16

[themostfun]

That's enough for me.

[ She leans in to brush her nose against Shaw's. ]

Break is over. I'm back now.