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[resnipstance]

Who: everyone!
When: Day 6
Where: everywhere!
What: regrouping after the event

Well, the swarm is over and the queen has died. What are you doing now, friends?

Heading back to the boneyard to regroup? Staying at the queen's carcass to harvest meat and pearl things? Staying maybe to heal if you're banged up? Or maybe you're arguing with others over what to do.

Comments

[resnipstance]

Ugh. Men.

[Pause.]

... No offense.

[superblack]

[He laughs.]

None taken. I know how we can be.

[It was part of his job to know how people can be, though.]

You'll get it in time. I know you will. You've got time to learn it.

[resnipstance]

[She sees the attempt for what it is, and nods.] Thank you.

... I never got your name, by the way.

[superblack]

Bruce Wayne.

[He holds out a hand to shake.]

And you are?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka shakes it.]

Ashla.

[She's getting better at giving that name, now.]

Thank you for sitting with me.

[superblack]

If you didn't want company, I'm pretty sure you would've told me.

[Not that he really would've been offended by it. Gotham forced you to grow thick skin, one way or another.]

You're not alone. I want you to know that. If you need anything, I'm here.

[resnipstance]

[ "A Jedi is never alone," she almost says, automatically. Words she's heard over and over again since she could remember. But she refrains. ]

... I know. Thank you. It means a lot to me.

[superblack]

[He nods. Some things, at least, are universal.]

We should probably move from here when you're ready. I'm not willing to find out if there are more where she came from.

[resnipstance]

... I don't think there are. [She would sense it, she thinks.] But I agree, all the same.

[superblack]

Thinking isn't the same as knowing.

[But he stays seated, taking in the space around them. This place must be old enough if a full grown insect queen had begun to live here. Then again, he's working off Earth standards. That can't be trusted.]