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Tweak says, "You can't has cheezburger!"

Emil Castagnier [Nebula] (forgotmynuts) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-09-03 17:02:00

Entry tags:

!days 160-169, ashikawa mitsuru, claude c. kenni, {chaz villette}, {emil castagnier}, {kirika yuumura}, {{{hakuba saguru}}}, {{{james t. kirk}}}

Who: Emil, Hakuba, whoever
Where: By the Orion dorms
When: Day 165, afternoon
What: Attempting to teach teammate self-defense

[there are two blanks in blinding Orion yellow, one holding on to a wooden staff, and the other correcting the first's grip]

No, um, more like this. That should help. . . Um, unless it's too heavy for you! It's not too heavy, is it?

[though, it sounds like the second one doesn't really sound like he has much confidence in the subject. shouldn't a teacher know what they're doing?]

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	byallmeans 2010-09-05 03:17 am UTC (link)
	And you remember how it all worked? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 03:38 am UTC (link)
	Like the back of my hand. That's another thing about the memory that was off to me, anyway. As far as I remember-- and it's a pretty good deal by now-- Claude was never a trained engineer or anything like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Then whoever this was definitely wasn't you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Wasn't 'Ensign Claude C. Kenni', anyway. Still, knowing that doesn't make it feel any less mine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 04:00 am UTC (link)
	I know what you mean. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 05:22 am UTC (link)
	... looking up. What was yours? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 06:09 am UTC (link)
	It was... complicated. I seemed to know a lot about how the situation had gotten to be how it was without knowing the specifics. I was thinking about it, at the time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 06:15 am UTC (link)
	...mm. Some memories are like that in general, but... Did you learn anything from it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 06:45 am UTC (link)
	[Yeeep, he tenses right the hell up at that, and for a minute he looks like he isn't going to answer. Then:] There were... things. Intelligent like humans, but thoughtless. Cruel. Animals, but capable. A mix- the worst of both. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 09:32 am UTC (link)
	* that tension answers in volumes. ...looking down. * Monsters? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 11:04 am UTC (link)
	Monsters that pretended not to be. Monsters that put on pretty costumes and played at etiquette after they'd helped themselves to our country. After they'd- [Cuts himself off again, with a brief, frustrated sound, this time.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 11:05 am UTC (link)
	[Takes a moment to compose himself before he speaks again.] ...after they'd killed the family of the memory's owner. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 11:17 am UTC (link)
	* fingers clenching into a fist on the wood. * ... I'm sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 11:27 am UTC (link)
	They weren't mine. Not really. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 11:46 am UTC (link)
	For whoever they belong to. And even if they're not ours... it doesn't change the feeling at all, does it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 12:07 pm UTC (link)
	[Watch me not answer that. :\|b] I went to go kill one of them. A duke. It was at a formal party, some kind of dance. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	* silence is yes :\|a but listening quietly anyway * (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	[Makes a sharp, dismissive gesture, and shakes his head.] I missed. It was crowded, and someone got in the way just as I moved to strike. They caught me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-05 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Then what happened? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-05 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	The memory ended before it had a chance to get too bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-06 03:09 am UTC (link)
	... I wonder what happened, after. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-06 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	Considering that the instructions were not to kill me yet, I doubt there's much to wonder about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-07 02:02 pm UTC (link)
	* considers, quietly. * What do you think of all this? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-09-08 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	About the memory? [Considers.] ...it wasn't mine. Or at least, it wasn't who I've remembered being in all of my other memories. It had something to do with this place, almost certainly, because something about it reminded me of that judge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tothelight 2010-09-09 02:50 am UTC (link)
	...that Judge... If those monsters had been his past works, I wouldn't be surprised. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)