Re: The Flibbertigibbet/The Pilot
Carter raised an eyebrow at the notion that they were all a little alone in the dark, although she supposed that there was some truth to it, and she could hardly deny that she spent a good deal of her own life alone. Some in the air, some in the bunk she called her own, and frequently times in pubs and dining spaces where she could go without being bothered. Most of the time on this train she'd been alone. "It's different in the air. You're alone, but the whole of everything around you - it doesn't feel alone," she took a sip of the champagne, let it linger in her mouth for a moment before she swallowed.
"Doesn't sound like something I'd enjoy," she stated simply. "Men tend to make everything about them." She suspected this might be true of love-making on camera too, it certainly was when she was on the field.
Another sip of champagne, and she watched, perhaps a little entranced by the transition, perhaps a touch offended, and yet she couldn't entirely deny what Lili was saying either. If being a woman was lace and fills and champagne in cozy train cars, Carter's world held little of any of those things. Carter was used to a man's world, and navigating power in it, but...
She stood up, setting the champagne to the side. "You live in a man's world too though," she told her, picking up one of the pieces of clothing on the floor and upon realizing it was a skirt, she held it up to her waist, so from the front it covered her practical trousers, creating a contrast between the trousers, the blouse, the leather jacket. "And you hold power in it too -- you can't tell me that you don't, because I've seen it. Not from you, but from other women. This act, positions you to find the power in the room."
She looked down at the skirt. It wasn't her. That was alright, she didn't think it made her less a woman, than the one standing in front of her that would have worn it with the ease with which she'd straightened her back and lengthened her stride. "This is pretty," she added, and handed it over. "I'm guessing that you wear it very well."