eighteen

[i_got_this]

Thanks for fucking nothing, castle. I really appreciate being able to explore the city as a goddamned furrball.

Please, someone tell me they got embarrassing footage of people getting owned at karaoke. I need a pick me up.


Filtered to Carolina

[So spending time as a Pallas cat had forced South to think about some things, and as mad as she still was about being abandoned at Freelancer, she kept coming back to what Carolina had told her.]

[Except she doesn't know how to word it, she's not even sure what she's asking, but she wants more than what she got in the Details department, so after a few moments she just writes,]

CT

?

Comments

[fanstheflame]

I was wondering why I hadn't heard from you. .... You okay? [and hey, like that new attic room you would have woken up in? cuz yeah, he finally finished it]

[i_got_this]

Yeah yeah I'm fine, now that I'm not trying to outrun dogs and avoid cars and shit. Nice work on the room, by the way. Definitely a perk to wake up to.

[And, no, she's not really okay okay, but she's better than she has been. For one, complaining loudly is a good indication she's back on the right track.]

[fanstheflame]

Thanks. I figured I'd leave most of the decorating to you.... [there's a nice handmade bar cabinet, though]

[i_got_this]

[You inow her so well, Gale!]

Yeah, I'll just pop by Ikea for some staples. So how'd you fare in Tokyo?

[fanstheflame]

... What's an Ikea?

[sorry, South, you have distracted the kid from the dystopian future]

South Dakota

[youfallback]

WHAT ABOUT HER.

Carolina

[i_got_this]

why

South Dakota

[youfallback]

BECAUSE WE WERE SENT TO RETRIEVE THE ARMOR. TEXAS DID NOT CARE IF THERE WAS A CORPSE INSIDE OR NOT.

Caorlina

[i_got_this]

[There's a few dots as she taps the pen on the page while thinking. That answered part of her question, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to hear the other part. Eventually, though, she wrote again;]

why did she leave

[CT had been her last friend, that one lone support when everything else was pulling away from her. She was still incensed and angry that CT had left, and she had to admit it; she wanted to know why.]

South Dakota

[youfallback]

[Ugh, this ranks in one of her least favorite conversations ever. Of all time. She's having a hard time grasping the data that she's read time and time again; part of her wants to continue denying that her father was torturing the Alpha, no matter how well the pieces fit together.]

BECAUSE OF HOW THE OTHER AIs WERE MADE.

[whistles_the_blues]

Just be glad you're back in your own body now.

[i_got_this]

God, I know, right? Fuck this place.

[whistles_the_blues]

I'll be fine so long as I'm never turned into a human again.

[i_got_this]

Hey -- what's so bad about being human?!

[whistles_the_blues]

Better question; What isn't bad about being a human?

[originalcopy]

Wait... that cat was you?

[He wondered if Tex realized it or if she just thought "hey a cat, might as well try to murder it".]

[i_got_this]

Yeah. That was me.

[Proooobably wouldn't have made a difference either way.]

[originalcopy]

Thanks for the wake up call.

[Yeah, it probably wouldn't have. It's not like Tex need much of an excuse go full psycho bitch on someone.]

[i_got_this]

Yeah no probelm. Next time maybe muzzle your vicious girlfriend.

[originalcopy]

Pfft... I'd rather keep all my fingers thanks.

You uh, she didn't actually catch you though.

[encryptedlock]

Is that where you were?

--Were you at least something Japanese? Like one of those Akitas?

[i_got_this]

No. I was a .... Pallas cat? It wasn't cool. I was like, a giant poofball or something.

[encryptedlock]

What the hell is a Pallas cat? Is that like a Persian?

[i_got_this]

Nah it's like wild or soemthing I think? But small. But hairy. Fuck it, it was a cat, okay? I couldn't get drunk as a cat. I deserve some high-shelf sake right now.

[encryptedlock]

Castle, would you please give South some sake?

And besides, at least you got to be a predator. Everyone else gets to be a predator.