Circuit 19 [Progress?] (Audio//English)

[lfetimewarranty]

[The comm clicks on, with no voice for a moment, as if the person is fumbling. And then Rfena speaks.]

Jinx, how is your progress with the arm coming? I would like to see, even if you're not done.

[He might not keep working, if she can tell the technology is incompatible.]

And... Vash? I heard you had returned. [Possibly dead.] How are you doing?

.....

Comments

[mayflyhunter]

Um. I could go for a donut right now!

[lfetimewarranty]

[Lolwut.]

You are doing satisfactorily then? Aside from your needs for donuts.

[She'll ttly get one for him later.]

[mayflyhunter]

[It's Vash's way of deflecting. It works, for the most part.]

Ahaha... y-yeah. I'm okay.

[lfetimewarranty]

[She accepts that answer. She has no reason not to.]

I... must ask, unless it is a problem. What happened inside Carnival, with Jennifer?

[mayflyhunter]

... It's a bad place in there. Don't ever go. It's dark. Full of pain.

People died.

[lfetimewarranty]

[There's silence, for a moment. She didn't intend to ever go, but.]

I... am sorry you had to witness that. And that it was the only place that could hold Jennifer and protect the boat.

[Immense guilt here. If she and Sulphur hadn't been curious, Jennifer wouldn't have been let out. Spectacular Spectacular was lonely, surely, but it wasn't a place full of crazy men and bears.]

[mayflyhunter]

[Vash doesn't respond for a long time.]

...

A little girl shouldn't have to suffer like that. Not even to keep other people safe. She was scared. She just wanted to go home. She didn't know she was doing something wrong.

[lfetimewarranty]

[She is, similarly, quiet.]

...She shouldn't. On the one hand, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, even a little girl but... one can hardly blame a dog for protecting its owner, for lack of a better analogy.

I could.. I need to contact the crew for repairs. Perhaps I could ask if there is a way to make another container for her. Like the one she was in before. It was lonely, but it was... it was free of danger. The only danger would be herself.

[mayflyhunter]

There's always a better way. Someone should have... should have tried talking to her before we hurt her!

... 'Kay.

[lfetimewarranty]

[She does... doesn't touch the first part.]

I will see what they can do, if it helps.

For the record I am sorry she has to go through this.

[Its true, but words are just words, now.]

[mayflyhunter]

[He takes several deep breaths--mostly to choke back the tears.]

Y... You do that. Do that.

... Sorry's not going to help her anymore.

[lfetimewarranty]

[Aaagh.]

I know... [Don't say it again.]

If... you need anything, or help.

[mayflyhunter]

I'm fine, I said.

[lfetimewarranty]

Very well then.

[She figures this is as good a point as any to ABANDON SHIP CONVERSATION.]