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What do you do when you're living in a wide-awake nightmare and every single breath you take you wish with all the desperation you have that you could undo something you once did but didn't mean to because you didn't understand the consequences?

I know things are better now that I'm on the Barge but I don't know how long it's going to be until I can wake up without feeling panicked that it's all been nothing but a dream or that the Admiral will look at me and think I don't deserve to be here any longer.

And I don't know how precarious my position really is. We're all just...teetering, waiting for gravity to catch up with us until we take the final plunge and I know this is morbid but that's who I am. Morbid...Ned, who's surrounded by death and can't get away from it.

Maybe I just need sleeping pills.

[Ned is Affected by the flood and is more of a basket case than usual. He's been an unwilling guest of the American government since he was nine and revealed his secret gift and for the last twenty years has been a neurotic shut-in with limited access to non-military personnel. And he doesn't bake pies.]

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Date: 2013-04-21 03:28 pm (UTC)
wormintheglass: (hypnotic)
From: [personal profile] wormintheglass
Ah, well then. As long as constantly dogging my footsteps suits you, I shall be delighted to oblige. Anything to make you feel better, dear boy.

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Date: 2013-04-21 04:02 pm (UTC)
godsays: (09)
From: [personal profile] godsays
It's wonderful to have such a considerate inmate.

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 04:03 pm (UTC)
wormintheglass: (coquette)
From: [personal profile] wormintheglass
Oh Zane. You do say the sweetest things.

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:16 pm (UTC)
godsays: (12)
From: [personal profile] godsays
Just remember: harm means consequences.

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:19 pm (UTC)
wormintheglass: (melancholy)
From: [personal profile] wormintheglass
Have you considered the harm you do me, with your baseless suspicions, your petty restrictions? I was under the impression that a modicum of trust, of freedom of choice, was an essential step in the graduation process.

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:20 pm (UTC)
godsays: (11)
From: [personal profile] godsays
You'll survive.

Re: [video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:24 pm (UTC)
wormintheglass: (above all this)
From: [personal profile] wormintheglass
Is it, perhaps, your will that I begin to regret that?

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:26 pm (UTC)
godsays: (54)
From: [personal profile] godsays
Bianca, my first concern is to keep you safe. To take care of you and make sure you're all right. Right now, I care about you more than anything else.

[ No matter how much it grates. ]

My second concern is to keep everyone else safe from you.

'Improving' you or redeeming you, or whatever else I'm supposed to call it, can wait.

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 07:37 pm (UTC)
wormintheglass: (Bianca)
From: [personal profile] wormintheglass
And you do it so very well, dear Zane. I am as safe and contented as a little bird in its nest.

I must confess myself curious as to just what harm you imagine I could do. Surely you would be right there?

[video/private]

Date: 2013-04-21 10:21 pm (UTC)
godsays: (03)
From: [personal profile] godsays
Just keep me in mind, Bianca. And be careful.

[ With that, he cuts the link. ]

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