[Bela looks a bit tousled. She's in the suit and skirt she wore during her nanomite excursion, torn and smutched, with her cat curled up on her lap. She scratches between Lisbeth's ears lightly, faint lines of tension pinched at the corners of her mouth ( Read more... )

I remember someone recently asked how people personally defined loyalty. My question, I suppose, is a bit different--what's the point to it ( Read more... )

[After trying for several fruitless days to find a chink in the armor of Tony's room that doesn't involve taking a hacksaw to the wall, Bela decided on a comparatively easy break-in to Bruce's room. Finding him unconscious and unresponsive, she's given up. In more ways than one ( Read more... )

[Private to Tony]

[Whatever was here is so deeply scratched out as to be completely illegible]

[Filtered to Irene, Bruce, Facilier, Sark, McCullen... ...BASICALLY IF YOU'RE SOMEONE BELA CONSIDERS A FRIEND WORTHWHILE ASSOCIATE, YOU'RE ON THIS FILTER.]

Come to my room. I don't care where you are. Do it.

[Private to Gabriel]

[...There was text here.

It's gone now.]

[Added later//Private to Irene]

Quite the tiny terror you were, it seems.

[Added later//Private to Inara]

I think I'm ready to take you up on that offer.

[Added much, MUCH later//Private to Bruce]

When you found me on the stairs. Where were you going?

Everything hurts. That's the first thing that registers. And then comes the split-screen disorientation, the memories of the Barge--of herself--rallying against the knowledge of that other life-world-person. There's one horrible, teetering moment when she's not sure which one she is. A surge of nausea almost makes her vomit.

( How long? )

[[OOC: Forward-dated to just after her brief encounter with Gabriel.]]

[Private to Irene]

Well. I seems your warden is as feckless as feared, Irene. And something of a perennial runaway, if his presence here in the first place (in the body of a Trickster, no less) is any indication ( Read more... )

I don't suppose anyone else on board actively practices tarot? Seeing as there isn't any real metaphysical spiritual activity on board and I'd prefer not to get out of practice, I wouldn't mind doing a personal reading or two if anyone has an interest ( Read more... )

[Private to Bruce- Strikes readable, AND NO SHE CAN'T JUST ASK.]

I've heard lots of talk about CES, and

I can't I need to at least pretend I'm not stuck he

I'm curious to see

I'd like to go to the CES, and according to apparent protocol, I need an escort to do so.

[Private to Gabriel]You know, there's a benefit to not giving a damn about ( Read more... )