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[encryptedlock]

[York is out in the graveyard today, somewhat predictably given recent circumstances. Three graves have fresh flowers on them today: his own, with a single yellow rose, Sister's, with a yellow-and-blue chrysanthemum arrangement, and Kat's, with pale blue winter roses. He speaks aloud to the grave, though the journal also picks it up.Shitty that

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[loisfuckinglane]

[Oh... crap. Lois was hoping no one was out here. Maybe they didn't see her. She tries to wheel around on her heel and head back out of the graveyard--]

[loisfuckinglane]

I guess I can't blame you for that. She has to have some kind of hope to hold on to.

[encryptedlock]

Officially? They all just went...missing in action. They say a Spartan never dies.

[Guess they were wrong.]

[loisfuckinglane]

How long have they been MIA?

[encryptedlock]

Some of them? Twenty-five years or more.

[loisfuckinglane]

Probably too long to have just found a really good smoothie shop.

... I'm sure she went down fighting, no matter what. I'd talked to her a couple times, and got that vibe.

[encryptedlock]

Or even a really good bar.

[And he nods.] That's part of who she is. Maybe it's just propaganda that Spartans never die, but I know they never give up.

[loisfuckinglane]

So you two we-- are close here?

[encryptedlock]

Well, I mean, she outranks me by about a million, but there aren't that many United Nations Space Command personnel around here. And I've been here the longest, so I'm her intel source.

Plus I let her play around with all the cool shit I have here.

[loisfuckinglane]

So you guys still pull rank here?

[encryptedlock]

I'd follow her orders. But that has more to do with knowing she's a good leader and trusting her judgment than because she outranks me.

[loisfuckinglane]

Must be that's why she ranks where she does.

[encryptedlock]

Wouldn't doubt it. She's brilliant, Noble-Two is. It's nice to have someone about the same level as me in cryptoanalysis.

[loisfuckinglane]

Find a lot of call for that around here?

[encryptedlock]

...Half these people don't even know what a computer is.

Still, this world ever changes to anything like home, the last thing I want is to be rusty.

[loisfuckinglane]

You mean a war zone?

Might want to find some wood to knock on.