+9 Agi {om nom}
Ya fuckers touch Karis, and y'll get shanked. Justa heads-up.
Leave her be for now. Don't gimme a reason to actively relieve my boredom.
[The clinking of silverware can be heard in the background.]That bein' said, the quality of the food here got real good again for some reason. I don't really care why, and it ain't like I need to eat any of this ( Read more... )
Leave her be for now. Don't gimme a reason to actively relieve my boredom.
[The clinking of silverware can be heard in the background.]That bein' said, the quality of the food here got real good again for some reason. I don't really care why, and it ain't like I need to eat any of this ( Read more... )
[She doesn't sound like she's including herself in that group, though.]
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And that's my problem, how? I got needs too, eh.
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[Celeste can hear the Major's voice coming both from her comm and from the entrance to the buffet.]
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The undead looks back to her food.]]
Can't say I agree. About the food.
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[Kusanagi has switched off the comm and is just speaking to Celeste now, but she goes to the buffet rather than immediately join Celeste at her table.
Mihaila's return is making it much easier for the cyborgs to eat enough calories in a day to power their shells, and Kusanagi selects the bland cyborg-specific food, noting with amusement the skull and crossbones on the tray. Some people object to heavy metal toxicity, apparently.
Having dished out her dinner, she goes over to where Celeste is sitting. She's never seen either of the zombies before, though it's hard to tell a curious stare from her normal unblinking gaze.]
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She does look up, however, to see what Motoko was eating. It makes her smile.] Apparently. [Because what she's got piled on her own plate is the same thing Motoko does.]
Well then, we know what I fancy... so tell me, what this stuff is that was darin' me to eat it with that pathetic warning sign.
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Cyborg food. Calorically dense, with trace minerals that are toxic to humans. I don't suppose it's a problem for you, though.
[Kusanagi starts eating. Mihaila's version doesn't taste right, exactly, but when you need ten thousand calories just to keep moving around on a regular day, you take what you can get.]
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[[Yep, bad pun. Smirking, she shovels more into her mouth and swallows hard.]]
Ya'd be supposin' right.
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[It's a statement.]
Then why keep doing it?
[Not that she doesn't already know what the answer is, but she wants to hear what version Celeste gives.]
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[[She fixes her blank yellow eyes on Motoko, wondering the same of her. Sizing her up, even. Whatever details the cyborg might've told Celeste about herself earlier, she's forgotten.
If she wants an explanation for her immense appetite beyond that, Celeste is willing to give it. Obviously what Celeste means isn't satisfying the physical need to eat in order to sustain herself.]]
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[She's standing, since none of the furniture can hold her, looking down at Celeste with her equally disconcerting eyes. The undead woman's heat signature is ambient, which is annoying.]
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[Lounging back lazily in her chair, she chews with her mouth open noisily, broken teeth gnashing the bland lethal cyborg food. Lethal. If the stuff is poisoned, her trained tongue can't taste it. She filed this interesting bit of information into the back of her mind.
After a swallow, she stabs a cube of steak from the opposite side of her plate and pops it in her mouth.]
Same thing with sleepin', breathin', talkin' to people, fuckin', you name it. Pretty annoying. Most'a us ignore it all, though.
[The torturous, constant urge to satisfy her disconnected mind's natural seeking of needs. Since doing any of those activities doesn't cause any reciprocal response from her lifeless body - who even knows where all that food goes? - her mind just keeps wanting, wanting, wanting.
Of course, not always. She grins at her, showing those jagged teeth on purpose this time.]'Cept of course for breather meat. Doesn't last long, but when ya eat it, it's hits the spot. Like shuttin' up a cryin' baby, or gettin' an itch ya can't ( ... )
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I weigh too much for the furniture.
[She puts her foot on the seat of the nearest chair and leans until the wood starts to protest.]
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Huh. I'll be damned. [Looks her over.] Ya don't look any different from a regular human. Ach, I remember. What you told me that one time. Sorta.
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[An effect which Kusanagi usually manages to ruin by never blinking.
She quickly reviews her conversations with Celeste since the zombie woman's return.]
We discussed cybernetics, briefly. Nothing substantial.
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"Cybernetics", huh. Forgive me fer not really remembering, eh?
[She walks around her back to the buffet, and takes half a dozen cupcakes from the dessert section.
Speaking over her shoulder:]
So what is that, magic?
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