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.]

Comments

[abrightboy]

That’d be great! I love swimming. And then I can tell Will where the fish are.

[cactusy]

You can tell him I have a newfound disappreciation for fishing, too. One of my temps took me.

[abrightboy]

Was it a bad time? Oh! Was it all the being quiet? That'd hard for me too. Did you catch anything?

[cactusy]

It was the sitting and waiting without anything to concentrate on. I could do spearfishing; that's more like sniping. Line-fishing, though? Boring.

But yeah, we got some stuff.

[abrightboy]

For people like Will it's meditative. It's a sort of zen place for him to go and feel peace.

[cactusy]

Yeah. Doesn't do crap for me, though.

[abrightboy]

Me either. I can't make my mind quiet. The sensory deprivation helmet makes me want to scream, no matter how overstimulated I am.

[cactusy]

See, I like that. It's not boring, it's nothing.

[abrightboy]

What do you do while you're in there? Like. In your head?

[cactusy]

Nothing. That's the point.

[abrightboy]

So… your brain just… stops?

[cactusy]

Yeah. It's nice.

[abrightboy]

My brain doesn’t stop in there. It never stops.

[cactusy]

I've gathered that about you. The inside of your brain must be exhausting.

[abrightboy]

Yeah. It helps to have something outside of me to focus on.

[cactusy]

[Like murder. Like Will.]

If you say so-- I'm no therapist. Luckily for all of us, right?

[abrightboy]

Your lack of kneejerk emotions wouldn't be a disservice in that field, to be honest.

[cactusy]

Therapists are supposed to be way more patient and understanding than me. Faking my way through the mental health courses in pre-med and med school was hard enough, and I didn't even have psych patient contact.

[abrightboy]

But you've spent enough time with me here to say you have now! [He can make the jokes!]

[cactusy]

[And she lets out a soft snort of amusement. Success!]

Maybe they'll give me an honorary degree, huh?

[abrightboy]

Next time we see Neal, he can make you one. Authentic enough to work as a therapist in any state.

[cactusy]

[He just gets an audible gagging sound at that.]

[abrightboy]

Or you could stick to shooting people for the government but hang it in your office to confuse people.

[cactusy]

You think I have an office?

[This is apparently more important than "You think I still work for the government?"]

[abrightboy]

Where else would you keep your collection of really big guns?