007 - Raspberry Mint

[deadly_ned]

I would like...very much to not have to do that ever again. And now there are these...images in my head and I can't get rid of them and they must be from another life and is this what deja vu feels like?

Is this what deja vu feels like?

I think I just...asked that question.

[Locked to Thomas]

I'm...sorry about last week, it was extremely unprofessional to go AWOL without explanation and the only explanation I can offer now is that I wasn't myself and I will try very hard not do be affected by the Barge any...more.

This might not be entirely a success.

[Locked to Arthur Pendragon]

Mr. Pendragon...King. Sir.

I'd like to talk to you about a sword.

Comments

[text]

[routemistress]

we got barged. happens to us all. gets easier to live with after the first few.

sorry about Bianca. least she didn't stick long enough to do much damage this time.

[text]

[deadly_ned]

There's going to be more?

Of course there's going to be more. How is it we're all not schizophrenics I will never know.




It's fine. It's all right, I mean. You didn't mean it and you couldn't help it and no harm done, right?

Re: [text]

[routemistress]

my first one I was the Duchess in Wonderland. Had always been. Complete with grown up pigbaby. He was adorable. Some of them become memories you treasure, good times. This last one, not so much.

thanks bb <3 <3

[text]

[deadly_ned]

That seems an...odd thing to be. At least the voice in my head is strikingly similar to my own voice so we're in harmony instead of...yelling at each other.

If I were the sort to make little hearts back, I would.

[text]

[routemistress]

it was brilliant. she was an angry drunk on pepper vodka with a rocket launcher and her son was a 400lb warthog w/whacking great tusks. we'd wait at crossroads and kick the crap out of anyone that passed.

shld prob feel bad about how much fun that was but really i don't.

[text]

[deadly_ned]

You and I have a very different opinion on what the words 'brilliant' and 'fun' constitute.

But then, I can barely stand magic as is.

Re: [text]

[routemistress]

if everyone liked the same thing the universe would suck balls.

that's Bianca's schtick, it'll never be mine

[text]

[deadly_ned]

Liking the same thing, or...sucking?

Re: [text]

[routemistress]

LOL good one sweetheart.

no, everyone has to do everything her way. boring cow. so pleased to be rid again.

[itstopped]

Oh, but you will.

[deadly_ned]

Your methods of cheering people up need a little bit of work.

[itstopped]

I find realism cheering.

Re: [text]

[deadly_ned]

Her way or the highway?

Is her way nice, at least?

[deadly_ned]

I don't. Not at all.

Re: [text]

[routemistress]

She thinks so. But most people who want to think other people's thoughts for them use that excuse. Doesn't matter, does it? People need freedom of choice.

[itstopped]

Did you see me during the flood at all? [Because the him of the past would have gotten along with you a lot better, Ned.]

[deadly_ned]

Not...especially?

No, I didn't.

[text]

[deadly_ned]

It's a terrifying freedom. I think I like safety better.

Re: [text]

[routemistress]

And it's important that you remain free to choose your own safety rather than have it imposed on you. Isn't it?

[ichoosefight]

You did just ask it, and yeah, it's sort of like deja vu.

You get used to it after a while. I think I must have been at least twenty different people by now.

[deadly_ned]

You say that so casually.

I hope they're at least twenty relatively nice people.

[text]

[deadly_ned]

I suppose you could put it like that.

[ichoosefight]

They're not always so nice. Sometimes little things can have a big impact. [ Like that time she never met Tim and her father killed her mother and then Steph killed him. ]

Private

[onceandfutureprat]

Call me Arthur. [That's... code for keep talking.]

Re: Private

[deadly_ned]

Mr...


Arthur.


Arthur, I made a promise to your inmate Arya that I would talk to you about giving her back her sword.

I'd like to know the safest way to do that while still maintaining your authority as her warden.