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[resultofwar]

If the Admiral lets us choose to leave the ship for some ports, why do we get such limited warning about being able to disembark?

[Private to Ariadne]

I want to see my file.

[Private to David]

Did your plan work?

[Private to Slade; added later]

I heard you assisted in subduing David during port.

Comments

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Let me ask you something point-blank: do you think trying to find the Admiral is a waste of time?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Yes.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

I expected more fight from you.

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Why?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

You're a soldier, aren't you?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Yes. [Well. Terrorist, but yeah, sure, we'll go with that. >>;]

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but isn't a soldier about not giving up so easy? What makes you think it's such a lost cause?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Because past data indicates it's impossible. What makes you so special that you can do what everyone else hasn't?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

You already know what. There's no one else on the Barge who can do what I can.

[Private]

[resultofwar]

How does changing into an animal immediately mean you can locate the Admiral?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Because I can go places no one else on the ship can go. I can spy on people when they think they've got total privacy. I can be any living warden on this ship and unless Bourne spilled the beans, they'll never know.

[Private]

[resultofwar]

And with everything else we have on board, you honestly think there's never been another shapeshifter?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Not one like me. You've read all the logs. What do you think?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

I told you. It's unrealistic.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you just decided it wasn't worth it. Maybe you got a better offer.

[The suspicion. Feel it.]

[Private]

[resultofwar]

[The extreme level of "unimpressed". Feel it.]

Like what?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

You tell me. Before you were up for this. Since we got back from port you think it's a waste of time.

... Wouldn't be anything your warden had to say, would it?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

I was never "up" for anything. I was curious.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Sounds like bullshit to me. You're backpedaling. What'd she tell you?

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Nothing. She's useless.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you. Convince me.

[Private]

[resultofwar]

Why?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Because otherwise I just have to assume she knows more than you're telling me. And go from there.

[Private]

[resultofwar]

She's a new warden. Her or a counterpart also named Ariadne was here previously, but she has no memory of the past months she allegedly spent on the Barge. She's had no professional military training. Satisfied?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I want what you learn about the Barge, though. Even if you don't believe the Admiral can be challenged, you'll keep figuring out how this place works. 'To have something to do,' you said. I want to know what you learn. As long as you give me that, your warden's off-limits. Deal?