For lastvoyages: Twenty-ninth vision [video+spam]

[can_has_vodka]

[Arkady looks...very tired. Her eyes are sunken and a little glazed, as if she hasn't slept. She has a pair of chickens on the couch with her, both hunkered down drowsy, and a somewhat large basket of eggs on her lap.]

Um...Lady Bertina's been busy lately, and I'm not sure I can eat all of these. Does anyone have a use for eggs?

[private to Touko]
Come down for tea! I've a homework assignment for you.

I do hope Junko has not been giving you more trouble. Giving people trouble seems to be what she does in life.

[Pub Spam]
[Arkady has seemed subdued these last few days, only making appearances during her shifts, and not being social much at all. She goes quietly about her duties in the pub, her usual cheery distractedness gone, but still bent on looking after people as best she can.

Comments

Private

[strangehistorian]

Oh dear. I can certainly try. Junko is the one with the pigtails?

Private

[can_has_vodka]

She's the blonde who keeps pretending to be a bear.


...I'm starting to hate her, and I don't hate people.

Private

[strangehistorian]

Oh, dear.

Maybe you should take a vacation. You sound like you could use one.

Private

[can_has_vodka]

Yes, I--I suppose so.

Thank you for listening. I just...yes, perhaps I should.

Private

[strangehistorian]

It's no trouble at all. Would you like to talk more about it?

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[can_has_vodka]

Well, it's just...I'm so very tired of having to live with terrible people. There are some great people here as well, but there's also a lot of craziness and apathy and cruelty and selfishness. Including Warden selfishness. And meanwhile the Admiral is so far removed from mortal life that he doesn't understand at all how some of his actions do us harm.

Private

[strangehistorian]

He does not. Or, if he does, he is not allowed to express it to us.

I suppose it is a matter of whether your deal is important enough to endure these things. I would have left long ago if not for my own deal.

Private

[can_has_vodka]

It is important enough. I have a country to finish saving. And I should just do it uncomplaining because I am more than part doing penance, but...sometimes it gets so difficult.

Private

[strangehistorian]

You're certainly allowed to complain. I think everyone is allowed that here, especially with how trying it can be. In the end, the result of your persistence is what will last.

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[can_has_vodka]

I know. I suppose that, whatever else I am, I'm at least half human, and humans rather like to whinge on occasion.

But Touko will be brilliant if she gets past all this. I have to focus on that.

Private

[strangehistorian]

She will be.