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[stubborn_annie]

Much as Annie would like to sit and see whether or not engaging in a contest of wills with the blank wall of the Bar would result in the door ultimately appearing, she's just as prone to feeling stupid as anyone else. Sitting and staring with no results will do that to a person. She's had her breakfast and her morning tea, so she's gone outside to

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[general_lando]

There's something familiar about the face. It's one Lando has seen before. Not at home. Here. Sort of.

And while it's the kind of face Lando might find of interest, that nagging familairity means he'd better not be quite so charming.

"Good morning, miss. Not to be too foreard, but you seem familiar. Have we met?"

[general_lando]

"I wouldn't say I'm stymied. Perhaps it's better to say that I use the Bar selectively, and let it be whatever it is.

"And if nothing else, it might give you a bit of a break. I can come here for days and only miss a few hours at home."

[stubborn_annie]

"Not that I couldn't use a vacation," Annie admits, "but I was supposed to be meeting Harry at my hotel room back in England, so you can imagine what it's like not seeing the door. Are you quite sure about the time thing?"

[general_lando]

"For myself, yes. But also for your husband. We was here some time before leaving, and that explosion was still waiting." It would be monumentally unfair, he thinks, if the Bar froze time for that but not for a reunion of lovers.

[stubborn_annie]

"Well, that's something, at least," says Annie; she runs one hand distractedly through her hair. "It's been far too long since last time. Bad enough I get caught up out of it. He doesn't need more delays and questions at this point, honestly."

[general_lando]

"Has he gotten anywhere with...whatever it is he's trying to do? I assume he's trying to find a way to get the army off his back and to prove that he was betrayed?"

[stubborn_annie]

"He's got most of it," Annie says. "He knows where their labs are, for one thing. And he's got a list of the officials who approved all this rot. Only thing is, it's a list of code-names, not real names or contact information. Between that and all the other proof he's been gathering these past two years, he's almost set. If he could get the names matched to the right people-" She gives a thin little smile. "He'd have his fist around their hearts. Especially if he could get into those labs and get proof of their contents."

[general_lando]

"I wish I was in a position to help. I was in a fairly honest fleet, and I can still vouch for how easily corruition can set in. But as I'm not from Earth, I don't know if there's anything else I can do.

"And most of the people I know from Earth are probably not quite the kind a fugitive soldier should be associaed with."

[stubborn_annie]

"It's all right," says Annie with a little more of a smile. "I know you'd help if you could, and you've already done a lot for him. I mean, he's still alive, just to start with. That's more than he ever expected, that night. Out of curiosity, though, who do you know from Earth?"

[general_lando]

"A nightclub owner from London named Amanda and a vampire named Serena are my closest friends from there. I've met a good number of others as well, but I'm not too close with most.

"Oh, and I'm helping a man named Quinn get supplies for his refuge." Lando decides to edit out the dragons for now.

[stubborn_annie]

Annie's expression goes a little flat at that, but she nods. "He mentioned an Amanda once," she says shortly. "You're right. She's not the sort of person he much wants to know."

[general_lando]

"Yes, I seem to recall he didn't much care for her. She's a good person in her own way. But I think she and career military men don't quite mix."

[stubborn_annie]

"No, I would imagine not," says Annie. Harry had told her things-

-well, she doesn't remember the details. It's been two years. Mostly she remembers the names of the ones he said she shouldn't trust. That was one of them.

"Still, I suppose it takes all types," she says, doing her best to put Harry's borrowed antagonism aside. "If you happen to hear of- I don't know, someone else who-"

A name swims up at her out of memory; she frowns. "Does the name 'Mister Universe' sound at all familiar to you?" she asks.

[general_lando]

Lando thinks. "I might have met him a while back. It's a bit hard to forget a name like that. But I'm afraid I really don't know him."

[stubborn_annie]

"Mmm... all right. Harry said he was going to help with the data side of things, you see," Annie says. "I don't know much about him myself."

[general_lando]

"I can ask around, see if anyone's see him or knows him, and send him your way. The place might seem overwhleming, but it's really not that crowded most days."