OPEN MINGLE.

[ex_broach530]

Who: Anyone!
When: Day 22 - Day 26 (Dec 7)
Where: Around the city.
What: Digging Boney out, checking on the injured, observing caused by the Overseer Drone including the time shenanigans and the new wildlife, and any other daily life threads you'd like to have before new arrivals.

Here, have some prompts!


DIG AND DIG AND DIGGITY DIG
The Dust seems to be settling on the city, quite literally. The result of massive cave-ins is that the city now looks like a poorly-managed construction zone, and the seekers of the Atlas who have been brought to this place might have to get their hands dirty in order to dig out the tunnels.

In case you need an incentive, access to some of the Monoliths has probably been prevented, not to mention the fact that nobody knows what happened to the strange boney creature calling itself The Last. The group consensus seems to be that they're going to dig him out. And was he the only one buried? A headcount goes round, but nobody is sure who exactly was in the caves. Probably time for a buddy system in case the next person buried is you.

Of course, hard work leaves little time for the other necessities of life. Why not bring by some food or water and strike up a conversation?


IT MEANS NO WORRIES
Manual labor isn't your thing? No problem! Several lush oasises seem to have popped up, complete with grass and water and wildlife.

There's one near the entrance to the city that is currently home to a couple of naughty tree-climbing mammals. Despite monkeying around, they look more like a gecko had a baby with a sloth than any kind of primate, but don't accuse these guys of being slow! They're fast, mischievous, and will steal anything they can get their hands on, carrying it somewhere high and leaving it there. But maybe if you can find out what they like to eat they can be tamed? Or at least convinced to brings your stuff back...

There's another denser patch of vegetation that definitely has something large and loud tromping around in it, but nobody's seen it yet... just be careful while foraging, okay? Or maybe it's a chance to finally have some meat for once.

Finally, there's definitely a decent sized pond with a shimmering reflection just begging for someone to cannonball in. And it turns out taking off the suit has no adverse effect writhing the oasis. Skinny dipping anyone?


TALE AS OLD AS TIME
Be careful around the sudden appearance of plants; they're time distortions that will zap in and out, the bubbles bursting before you can work out how to break that coconut-like plant open. And you don't want to end up stranded in the desert without your suit on, either. Not to mention some pretty weird time distortions seem to be happening. Careful you aren't stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, forced to relive the last few minutes of your gruesome death over and over...

On the plus side, you can give yourself a high five?

And only a high five, nobody wants to see you taking self love to an entirely new level.*



* Iron Bull wants to see.

Comments

[ex_broach530]

digging
Qunari strength comes in handy here. Rather than doing the digging himself, The Iron Bull is putting out sheets of bark or trilobite shell for people to dig dirt and rubble onto, and then hauling it away, muscles working. But he doesn't work in silence, always with a quick smile or a friendly word. He'll ask your name if he doesn't know it, where you come from. Or: "Hey, what was that thing you were using," if you're Cayde or Fuyuhiko — someone teach this guy about guns.

skinnydipping
You had better believe after all that hard work that The Iron Bull going to go swimming. As soon as he realizes he can get away with taking his clothes off, he does. And he doesn't even pass out this time!

Anyway, catch him enjoying a mud bath like a hippo, giant and grey, leant back against the bank with his eyes closed, the thick mud fortunately concealing his ~black box~: his suit is draped over his horns to keep off the sun. A happy sigh. "Yeeees, this is the life."

wildcard
( hmu if you would like to plan something out. possibilities include sparring, hunting, multiple bulls, multiples of your character, investigating the setting, preparing food, whatever you'd like. )

digging.

[naberrie]

[ padmé would opt for silence, but when someone strikes up a conversation she answers politely. she smiles over to him, and between shell-fuls of dirt offers her name and the name of her home planet. ]

I was born in Naboo, though I was last on Coruscant. [ one is no risk to say; the other a little, necessary lie. it is spoken so often it has almost become reflex. ] Do you know of either?

[ a few weeks ago, it would not have occurred to her to ask. of course, that was before she learned more than she ever needed to about earth. ]

digging

[ex_bossily211]

"I'm from Earth, originally." Clara distractedly responds as they work. It's mindless labor in some ways, but that doesn't make it bad. It just means that she has to pay close attention to her words, to keep her answers guarded. Before she might have blabbed on about Earth and her opinions of it, but now she keeps her answers close to her heart. "But home is anywhere I want it to be. Or was, before I woke up here."

She takes the time to pile his trilobite shell full of more dirt, before looking up at him. "What about you?"

[ skinny dipping ]

[anewhope]

[ Clark couldn't help staring a little. To his credit, he doesn't make it too obvious. Iron Bull was fascinating in his difference and how easily he owned up to it. Or perhaps it was just natural for his world. Clark could never move so seamlessly, so casually among a group of people, even if it a group he has made great strides in. ]

Is it?

skinny dipping

[winscenario]

For a change, Jim has actually been enjoying himself exploring these time pockets. He doesn't let his mind stray from the main goal of finding a way out of this planet, but while there are no clues for them to find, actually having food and clean water all but readily available seems like a luxury in their current situation.

He's looking for either of those when he happens to find a pool of mud instead, which... well, it's not bad but not exactly what he was looking for. Finding someone in there quickly gets his attention, though. He remembers seeing him around before, even if they've never talked, and this seems like just the perfect opportunity to fix that.

"Well, hi."

No really, don't mind him. He'll just be leaning against a rock and watching, that's fine right.

digging + some wildcard bc i do what i want

[mobilized]

Fuyuhiko's using this opportunity to take a break. He's been working diligently and without complaint up till now (they owe it to the Last to find him, even if it's just to give him a proper burial), but the truth is, he's not used to this level of manual labor. How long can it possibly take to dig a hole? A long fucking time, apparently.

He sits cross-legged, out of the way of the continuing work, and preoccupies himself with practicing unloading and reloading the pistol he borrowed from someone for this purpose. So much time spent in the sun has made the freckles across the bridge of his nose stand out even more, which sort of negates any toughness points he might be getting from all this.

He greets Bull with a lift of his chin, and unloads the pistol back out. "All right, help me out here." He's still trying to wrap his brain around the possibility that anyone could just not have guns, least of all Bull, who so far has been pretty synonymous with what a proper man is, in Fuyuhiko's brain. That definition just also happens to include guns. "You ever seen one of these before?"

digging

[justice_of_toren]

[Breq, when she's not engaged in conversation while she's digging, hums, or singing softly to herself. But she's fine with talking to her neighbors.]

I'm Breq. From a system called Atoek, most recently, but I would be surprised if you've heard of it. And you are?

Digginig

[backwatertrooper]

Hope you forgive a little staring, Bull - not that Cloud hasn't seen him around, but... it's a little different, like this. Then he shakes his head, trying not to grimace at the feel of sweat, and straightens up a little.

"Um... Cloud. And we just... called it the Planet," Cloud says quietly, then pauses, frowning a little and putting down the rock he'd been moving so it could be hauled away, "or Gaia, sometimes, but I think that's relatively new."

As always, talking about home makes an unpleasant reminder of where they are - not not home, but another planet, and Cloud's gaze is drawn up to the moons above, reflexively.

jim kirk » open

[winscenario]

DIGGING;

[ Jim is by no means the strongest person around, but what he lacks in that department he more than makes up for in motivation. And while there might not be anyone else buried underneath the rubble, he does want to help the Last, even if he had shown no interest in leaving that chamber along with them. It just doesn't sit well with him to leave the guy down there on his own.

He might know some of the faces, but he'll approach anyone if they look like they could use a hand lifting up a particularly large and heavy piece of rubble, or even if he's just offering a greeting smile and introducing himself. They're all stuck here for now, so might as well get to know everyone. ]

EXPLORING;

[ The city continues to be much of a mystery to Jim, but his attention momentarily shifts from that to the time pockets, and he takes to exploring the different scenarios that seem to spawn all over the place. He's careful when interacting with fauna and flora both but he doesn't shy away from contact, and he tries to commit to memory any relevant information. He can also be found collecting anything that looks edible, even building a fire and trying to roast some piece of what looks like a vegetable or the closest thing to a fish he could find.

He'll welcome the company, and even offer some food and water to anyone that comes closer, smiling as he speaks up. ] Nothing fancy, but it'll do the trick?

SKINNY DIPPING; warning: nudity

[ The highlight of these time pockets has to be the fact that the suits can come off. Granted, Jim knows it can be a bit of a risk when the pockets can flicker in and out of existence, but being stuck in that suit for so long has slowly driven him crazy, enough that he thinks it's more than worth the gamble.

So when he finds that pool with clear and fresh water, he doesn't even hesitate, taking off his suit and jumping inside for a swim. He can be found in there, either floating around the water or leaning back against a rock by the edge with a contented look on his face. Or maybe he's out of the water, lying in the sun with the suit next to him, waiting to dry off a little more before he has to put it on again. (Ugh.)

There's also the chance you'll find Jim near a tall tree, holding up some big piece of fruit while completely naked. At the top of that tree there's that thieving little creature, looking a little too pleased with itself as it holds Jim's suit hostage. ] Oh, come on! What good is that suit to you?!

(( ooc: the prompt with the creature is limited to one person, since Jim isn't so stupid he'd fall for it more than once. probably. ))

[ skinny dipping ]

[anewhope]

[ Clark had been wandering when he hears Jim speak. Curiously, he moves closer to notice the predicament. The creature squeaks as he tries to make a run for it, but Clark is faster, grabbing it by the neck (but his grip is gentle) and deftly wresting the suit from it. Then he sets it down some distance away, watching it scurry with a faint smile on his face.

Then he turns to Jim, holding it up. There are traces of amusement in his eyes, but he doesn't seem to be mocking him. ]

I believe this belongs to you?

exploring

[ex_bossily211]

It doesn't have to be fancy to be perfect. Or appreciated.

[Smiling, Clara slips around from behind him to steal some of the fish for herself. He's cooked it well enough that it's delicious, and she moves to sit at his side by the fire as she reaches forward to take some more. She's carried over some fruit in the pack on her suit, and it's pulled out and split in half so they can try it together. Her half is passed back and forth between her hands as she quickly thinks something over.]

We should collect as much as possible, just in case these rifts close up completely.

EXPLORING

[sandhate]

[ he approaches with a half smile, a collection of colourful and dull tubers in hand as well. there's no telling when this time bubble will burst but so like, jim kirk he's gathering what he can, eating what he can.

none of it taste really good though, not in it's raw form anyway. ]

It'll definitely do. I just hope it doesn't vanish along with the rest of this place while I'm still digesting it.

[ he tips his head towards the food stash off to the side, and like a kid at lunch break, he asks ]

What did you get?

skinny dipping

[thephix]

[Max has been observing the time pockets for a little while, timing how long they last for as she weighs up the risk of taking off her suit to get clean. Most of the pockets last long enough that she isn't too worried, especially since she can last without oxygen for around ten minutes, if it comes to that.

So when she stumbles upon Jim taking a dip in a pool, she decides it's probably time she gets herself clean.]

Good morning, Jim. [Is it morning? Who even knows, time is screwed up.] Would you mind some company?

[He doesn't seem very shy, but it would be rude to assume.]

exploring.

[naberrie]

Thank you.

[ padmé accepts the offered morsel, but doesn't take a bite yet. she kneels by the fire, instead, holding the food between her fingers. ]

Did you fish these yourself?

Clark Kent | OTA

[anewhope]

[ can't take the farm out of the boy. ]

[ Clark enjoys manual labor.

Well, he enjoys the monotony of it. He's used to checking the plants and helping with the large fields in Smallville. Their farm was never big and Clark could easily do the chores within a short time frame, but there's something relaxing about being in his own personal bubble as he collects food, washes them in the sun and places them in a pile for people to use. If you approach the pile, he'll just give you a quiet muted smile and gesture to the pile. ]

Help yourself.

[ an animal friend in need. ]

[ Since the area is easier to forage for food and water, Clark doesn't feel a pressing need to collect too much or check up on everyone. He takes his own tiny pile some distance away from the larger groups of people and finds a shaded area with some large rocks. He takes his place there, setting the food down. So as he nibbles on a sweet berry, an animal surveys him from a distance. Before coming closer. Clark, on a whim tosses a few seeds and extra berries as he continues to eat.

Time passes and there's two aliens munching on their food in mutual camaraderie. Clark, sitting on a rock and the Builder curled up near his feet. ]

[ wildcard ]
[ Got an idea? Need a Superman for backup? Hit me up! ]

farm boy

[sobriquette]

[Jess still isn't sure how she feels about these little pockets of time, but at least Clark is familiar.]

You sure that's safe to eat?

[So far they've been mostly lucky.]

clara | ota

[ex_bossily211]

fast forward; closed to Clark Kent
[She's in the middle of wandering in Clark's company when she receives the message over her communicator. It catches her attention right away, and she stops walking as she shields her eyes well enough that she can read it with the sun overhead.

FIRMWARE UPGRADE AVAILABLE.
UPDATE: Y/N?

She reads it over, head tipping off to the side as she wonders if she should go through with it or not. Thinking it's an upgrade to her suit, she hesitates.]

Clark, look at this. Should I go through with it?

[Not even two seconds later:] I think I'm going to accept, so we can see what happens. A suit upgrade sounds perfect, don't you think?


digging;
[Clara's not particularly strong, but that doesn't stop her from pulling her own weight in trying to help with the digging efforts. They've got an important task to finish, and she's feeling a surge of energy after her recent massive upload of information. So she finds herself working close to dark, loading up and dragging away as much dirt and rubble as possible. It's right before dusk and she's just loaded up a trilobite shell full of dirt to be cleared away. The problem is she's piled it a little too full and high so she approaches one of the other people nearby.]

Can you help me clear away a bit more? It's too heavy for me to lift and move away on my own.


bathing;
[After watching entirely too many men skinny dipping, Clara takes it upon herself to finally bathe. She's waited weeks to do this, and doesn't hesitate when she sheds her suit. Heading right into the water, she works on scrubbing at her body, paying particular attention to her hair. It's only when she catches sight of someone on dry land that she pauses in what she's doing and glances over.]

Mind lending a hand? I'll wash your back if you wash mine.


twice the fun;
[Really, running into a version of herself from even a few minutes prior isn't good for her egomania. She first spots herself from the back, and after tipping her head and admiring herself she realizes that the suit is doing her all kinds of favors. It's only after calling out to her double and heading on over that she becomes completely fascinated by the concept of being stuck in a time distortion with herself.

When someone else comes along, she won't hesitate to grab their hand and turn them so they can admire the her from five minutes ago the same as she's doing.]

Do you think a single planet can handle more than one of me? Because I'm thinking about keeping her. There's just something about her that I like.

[anewhope]

[ Clark frowns openly. He hadn't heard of any suit upgrade. In fact, his suit hadn't even given him the option before it started parsing the alien language for him. The fact that it's asking now seems suspicious. ]

I'm not sure how I feel about you being a guinea pig for a suit upgrade.

[adamance]

exploring the past

Have you ever seen a world lost to ruin like this one? [Lexa asks, in part because there's a definite disparity between the world around them and the one that they find when they enter the vacuums suddenly made available to them. At first, she has her doubts that they might even seem to be the same place. Soon enough, she begins to find the similarities among the architecture.

In a way, it reminds her of her home. Her question isn't because she's in awe of it. Her question is because she wants to know how it happened.]

And if so, I think you'll agree that we'll be better served figuring out precisely how this happened.

[The creature that attacked supplies one clue, to be certain.

On the other hand, there was also the vision.

But more than that, Lexa just hopes to explore, to see what had been of this world.]

So, shall we go forth?

the hunter marks their prey

[Not that anyone should consider themselves prey. Lexa certainly doesn't, but it's apparent that she has been hunting before. She finds herself carefully camouflaged among the green plants in a darker area barely reached by the son, which offers her the protection she needs to blend in. Otherwise, too much sun would make her obvious.

She holds a weapon securely in her hand ready to rush forward, only ...

Only, well, it's not her fault that someone happens among the scene of her hunting. When the animal—a deer-like creature without any fur (though it does have antlers)—runs off, she rises up out of the bushes with a look of contempt.]

Do you need to be here?

[Mind you, Lexa would probably hunt a lot better without the spear she's made out of a variety of pulled together objects. Like, say, with a gun.

But she's still being stubborn about that.]

wildcard

[Anything else? (Though Lexa won't be bathing where anyone can see her.)]

[sobriquette]

where's the closest LUSH

[Jess isn't daring enough to strip down to nothing, not when she still remembers what dying felt like when she took the suit off before. She has no idea how long these little gaps of time will last, so she won't risk getting naked, but that doesn't mean she can't take advantage of the water.

She strips the suit down to her waist and wades into the water, once she's submerged, she wiggles a little further out of the suit, because there's a limit to how much she's going to put on display.

Of course, the trip into the water leaves her soaked down to her boots, so once she feels sufficiently clean, Jess hitches her suit back up to her waist and finds a spot on the grass to dry off.

Suns out, tits out.]

yackety sax intensifies

[At some point, Jess comes across a time pocket that's already occupied, by something that doesn't look entirely friendly.

Which turns out to be an understatement, because as soon as the creature realizes that something edible is nearby, it growls and launches itself straight at Jess. After the mess with the trilobite queen and the fact that technically, she's in the past right now, Jess is reluctant to hurt the thing.

So she runs.]

wildcard

[hmu if you want something else, or just toss something random at me, Jess will be around the city mostly!!]

[backwatertrooper]

---Um, sorry!

[That comes barely moments after Cloud, unsuspecting there'd been anyone nearby, walks cautiously out from the greenery into the clearing around the pool, ducking under the branch of a tree, and then immediately backpedals. Well, after a second of wide-eyed staring as he realises what he's looking at, admittedly.

His retreat isn't exactly straight back the way he came, though, so instead he hits the tree... and the back of his head smacking into the low-hanging branch he'd avoided earlier. The little groan that slips out is more embarrassed and exasperated than one of pain, though.]

Cloud Strife | OTA

[backwatertrooper]

Not bathing
It's nice to actually see something green again, even if, admittedly, he's spent one and a half years in a city that has none, either in it or around it, and Nibelheim in late September certainly wasn't very green aside from the pines. That just made the appearance of these temporary little clearings all the more startling.

Sitting in the shadow of a tree near one such pool, Cloud eyes it with some longing. It's hot, and even if he's gotten better about dealing with the heat, it'd be nice... But it could disappear whenever, and he wasn't about to strip anything off no matter how much he rather wanted a bath.

Looking up at the sound of approaching footsteps, Cloud dropped one hand to the now-working gun he had. It could just be Zack, or one of the others with them, but he'd seen more than one animal appearing with these green spots...

lack of time

"... How does that... work." It was a mutter, more or less slipping out unconsciously while Cloud stared, uncomfortable, at himself, repeatedly walking a stretch of ground between a building and the green clearing that had appeared between one step and the next.

Reaching a hand out, Cloud pulled it back before he could touch himself as the copy passed him, disappeared two steps after walking onto the now-there grass, and reappeared back where he'd exited the building.

wildcard
Got another idea?

not bathing

[astromechanic]

"Whoa - friendly here!" Hunk stops his approach, both hands up in the air and gaze trained on the hand Cloud's got on that weapon. Most of the people in the group he's met are friendly enough, but he stays where he is, hands raised.

"Mind if I take a drink?" He could use one - badly enough that the the sight of the glimmering pool in the sun distracted him from announcing himself. That'd be an awful way to end up shot.

brackets or prose welcome, I'll match you.

[highflights]

→ tea-time

She's taken the bulb and some of the leaves from the plant. It smelled just fine when she found it, and if it's toxic it would only cause some mild discomfort, but Kara's really interested in seeing how the animals react to it. She's spent the morning baiting a few. They'd approached without fear, and squabbled over the small portion. Nothing untoward happened, and she doesn't hear anything wrong with their bodies when she checks later, so Kara cuts up the main bulb and leaves it spread neatly on a wide leaf for anyone to sample. The rest of it, however, she brews in a bowl with her heat vision. She's perfectly happy to engage anyone who passes, whether here to investigate the smell or not, with a cheerful,

'Would you like some tea?'

→ map-making

There's an area near the water but off the main path, and so Kara's busy drawing out a map of the city in the mud, the details exact. An x marks the Tree, another the monoliths. Of interest to her is a polygon she's situated deep under where the Overseer first emerged, that appears to be floating above its base. Kara finishes it, arms akimbo as she studies what she's managed to make.

'This is the city so far. Most of it's buried, but there's an intact structure here,' she gestures, 'and I think there might still be power. For stasis pods, or more of those killer robot things. What do you think?'

She's certain nobody should go down there alone. This place really doesn't do things halfway when it comes to surprises.

( ooc: if your character investigates the floating polygon energy source, debris in the tunnel leading to it would have been cleared away by your friendly neighbourhood Kryptonians, leaving a straight, safe path. )

→ wildcard

Anywhere else you might want to encounter Kara. She will be around digging, happy spar with anyone who asks, around exploring, etc.

[anewhope]

[ He takes the bowl graciously. It's not surprising they both had their little side-projects in foraging and cataloging, trying to make the best of a new world.

They're familiar in that, though Clark is sure Kara's experience trumps his. ]

Do you drink tea a lot?

vivienne | ota

[ironmadame]

earth movers and shakers

Digging? Vivienne getting her hands literally dirty in the literal dirt? Non.

There's magic for that, and Vivienne does spend some time moving the earth that way, a piece of collapsed construction here and a floating bit of boulder there.

Anyone staring or openly wondering at just how she's doing that gets an arched eyebrow unless they manage to ask her a complete question.

water water not everywhere

Oases, however...those are another story.

First she experiments with the water. Then there's suddenly a wall of earth and ice surrounding her as she gets out of the suit and into the water, sighing at the feeling of being clean, finally.

She doesn't mind company! Though she isn't flashing you, either, sorry. That wall of ice can be recalled if needed.

a card of wild design

Vivienne is exploring, getting annoyed at timeloops, and other general shenanigans. Feel free to tag with whatever!

sera / open

[buttsbuttsbutts]

digging is stupid

[ sera hates most everything about this place, but she hates the monoliths the most. she's definitely not going to help dig any sort of access to them. in her opinion, they'd be smart to just leave things as they are and go off somewhere else.

tunnels are always bad news anyway. ]

No,

[ she says, loudly and simply. she's definitely not digging so it's a mystery as to why she insists on hanging about anyway. one might guess she's scared to wander off on her own but she would fervently deny any accusations of such. ]

Not doing that. You'd be smart not to either. You know what happens after cave-ins? More cave-ins. There's no point.

water is slightly less stupid but still stupid

[ at the oasis, she refuses to skinny dip because who even knows what sort of creepy little things are swimming around in there? she's gathered up a good bit of stones here and there, though, and she's presently tossing them into the water one at a time. some of them skip, some of them don't. she doesn't seem to care either way. ]

Oi! You. It's boring, right? Nothing happening, ever. [ sera pls you've been here like 5 seconds ] Big talk about the Atlas but nothing much to show for it. Makes you wonder, dunnit? Like is there really something there or is it just, you know, nothing?

[ ANYWAY she has a point, and that point is: ]

Come throw rocks. It's not digging but it's still... [ she hesitates. she was going to say "better than sitting around thinking" but then that makes her want to think, and she's already done quite enough of that. she'd already freaked herself out more than once by sitting and thinking. ] Ugh! Doesn't matter. Just come throw them.

wildcards? also stupid

[ open to anything and everything! sera is grumpy so expect her attitude to be roughly equivalent to that of a wet cat's. ]

[justice_of_toren]

[This one is new. Breq peers at them curiously, and then shrugs slightly and goes to picks up a few rocks.]

Back home, if I were angry or tense - well, angrier than usual- and I had free time, I'd go to the firing range and do target practice. Can't spare the ammunition here. [Actually, since she was usually in space, target practice was rarely real bullets. If there's a way to get the tech around to set up a good simulation, she hasn't worked it out yet.] Skipping stones will have to do.

Breq | OTA

[justice_of_toren]

one segment, two segment

Breq's seen other blips in time, so she's well aware she could run into herself. Cue studiously ignoring her longing mixed with dread at the prospect. To be more than this one tiny body again, even for a moment; she can't help but want that. But it wouldn't be the same, either, she's certain. Her implants wouldn't have anything to interface with to communicate with the other self, so there wouldn't be the unity of two hooked up ancillary segments. Two bodies, separate but identical, that's not the same at all.

But she could hold herself. If it happened, she could do that.

Despite considering all of this, when she turns a corner while patrolling the city and sees herself, she can barely breathe for a moment. Bodies feel things. It hadn't been unusual when she'd had hundreds of ancillaries, for one to be hurt, or tired, or overwhelmed. But it was a little like stubbing a toe, for single bodied people. You do what you can to help that part feel better, and the rest of you works just fine.

Now when she got very emotional, she couldn't set it aside in the same way, couldn't send one body to take care of another. Except maybe, this time, she could. Sort of.

The other Breq smiles. "I've had about 24 hours to sort through this experience. It's going to be alright, Justice of Toren One Esk. Come here."

wild card

Uh, time shenanigans and AI meltdowns are all I got. Throw anything you like at Breq, though!