9 bullet casings - PSA

[f_ck_your_fish]

[Davina's departure finds Eunice a little more bothered than she thought she'd be, so she's doing what she does every time something like this happens: keeping busy. having flipped through the journals idly a few times, she's come across a common problem, and decided to do a little community service. as such, she's down in the kitchen, tacking a

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[encryptedlock]

[actually laughing here, which is good, it's way better than being depressed]

A peep war is where you get marshmallow chicks - Peeps - and you stick a toothpick into them, put them in the microwave, turn it on, and see which one blows up big enough to "kill" the other one with its toothpick.

[f_ck_your_fish]

Boy, someone had to've been bored as a pig in a dry season to come up with that one.

[encryptedlock]

...You have actually met Sister before, right?

[f_ck_your_fish]

Unfortunately. I'm still trying to regrow the brain cells. [she laughs a little]

[encryptedlock]

So imagine how bored she must have been with life before she discovered sex, drugs, and alcohol. And that's how you get Peep Wars as the natural thing to do with a microwave.

[f_ck_your_fish]

When you put it that way, it makes a disturbin' amount of sense.

Now, who exactly am I apologizin' to for having to have known her so ... extensively?

[encryptedlock]

Freelancer York. I never knew her from back home, but we're from the same world so I was kinda watching out for her until her brother got here.

[f_ck_your_fish]

Freelancer, huh. [jokingly] Is that a rank, or were your parents just that cruel?

[encryptedlock]

Hell no! There's only three people here who know my real name. I just happen to be from New York.

[f_ck_your_fish]

Oh really? Not from there, but I've been enough times to know my way around. Whereabouts in the Big Apple?

[encryptedlock]

Near the spaceport - I'm 26th century.

[f_ck_your_fish]

Spaceport! [whistles] Now that's somethin'. You're about five centuries ahead'a me, York, honey. I'd guess the traffic's still just as bad, but a little higher up in the air?

[encryptedlock]

Actually, it's not as bad? But that's because not everybody's stuck on the same planet anymore. The colonies really gave us room to spread out, you know?

[f_ck_your_fish]

Colonies? In space? ... What, you mean, like in the movies? ... Huh. Never thought we'd really get our shit together that much.

[encryptedlock]

Pretty much. Planets are way less expensive than building stations or habitats, but there are a couple of those, too.

And think about how much the human race can do in five hundred years. It's pretty awesome.

[f_ck_your_fish]

[pauses and does, indeed, think about that]

Considering that five hundred years ago we didn't have indoor plumbin' or mass publishin', let alone the internet or forensic testing? ... You have an excellent point.

Jesus, this place must seem like the Dark Ages to you.