[034] May the Fourth (Wall) Be With You

[notafuckingnut]

...I'm not gonna ask for porn this time. Too much weird shit happened last time.

If that crazy-ass pony's back, though, I promise it's glue. You're funny enough but nobody gets to talk to me like that and get away with it.

[He's not asking for Seth he's not he's NOT. Seth isn't here, he won't be, he can't be.]

So. Hi everybody, I guess? I'd say welcome, but you don't want to be here. Trust me.

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[tatra]

Oh my, how strange!

I am Tatra. [ She gestures to the room behind her. ] This is our ship, the Bravada.

[notafuckingnut]

You've got a ship too?

[He leans forward, shifting his angle, as if that will help him get a better view.]

[tatra]

It belongs to the government of Chizeta, but it is at the command of my sister and I. [ There is tea on a table. Otherwise it looks like a bizarre cross between something Turkish and a fantasy palace. ]

[notafuckingnut]

...oh.

But still. You've got a ship. Going anywhere good?

[tatra]

We're returning home at the moment. Which is rather good, I should think! What about your ship? Where are you headed?

[notafuckingnut]

[Hesitation.]

...I don't know. The Admiral doesn't tell us.

[tatra]

If you didn't know where you were going, why did you board?

[notafuckingnut]

I didn't. I was kidnapped. ...Kind of.

[tatra]

Kind of?

[notafuckingnut]

It's...complicated.

[Not really.]

[tatra]

I'm terribly sorry. Is there anything I can do to help?

[notafuckingnut]

Um. I guess...

[And here would be the point when his mind would play tricks, fill in all kinds of things based off that one question, the myriad implications it could have. But...they're not so quick to voice themselves these days, and not so desperately vocal when they do, so instead he merely shrugs.]

Not unless you can bring back the dead. Or hijack a ship.

[tatra]

I'm afraid such things are far beyond my powers.

[notafuckingnut]

That's okay. I kinda figured.

[Siiiigh.]

[tatra]

It does seem strange that our ship would pick up your signal if there was no way for me to reach you. Perhaps there's something I can do after all.

[ She's going to need to get the techies on board, though. ]

[notafuckingnut]

You think so?

[tatra]

If I can contact Cephiro, and they haven't used too much energy, perhaps.

[notafuckingnut]

...who?

[tatra]

Cephiro, the world we just departed from.

[notafuckingnut]

Oh. What's it like?

[tatra]

I've heard it was beautiful, once. It fell apart after the Pillar died. We're working to rebuild now.

[notafuckingnut]

...how can a pillar die? It's just stone, isn't it?

[tatra]

Goodness no! The Pillar was a young woman. Her job is to maintain the entire world of Cephiro through the power of her prayer.