} 062 - [VOICE] - back again

[creatingalegacy]

So.

[Amanda sounds...indifferent. Not honestly indifferent; it's got an air of practice to it, like she rehearsed her tone.]

I'm back.

[There isn't much she wants to say to the general population at the moment, all things considered, so...have her lackluster public announcement.]


[Private to Lua]

Are you back yet? [Please be back. Amanda's missed her like crazy.]

If you are, I'm sorry. I didn't expect to be gone so long, but I needed to wait for something.

[Private to Rhade]

[A little playfully:] Miss me?

[Private to Hoffman]

[There's nothing on the network for him. Instead, she's left a newspaper in front of his door. It's an issue of the New York Times, dated 2003...a new 2003.

She's used a red marker to circle a small article: the announcement of Gideon Kramer's birth, the first child of renowned civil engineer John Kramer and Jill Tuck, his philanthropist wife.]


[OOC: Sorry I vanished! I had to hiatus suddenly due to my perpetually shitty health.]

Comments

[ichoosefight]

How to survive in a dystopian future? I don't know. I think it's all bull.

[creatingalegacy]

I don't think a borderline sadist is the right person...entity...to be running a center for rehabilitation, but maybe that's just me.

[Pause. She decides to nip that particular show of hypocrisy in the bud.]

Aside from that, how've things been?

[ichoosefight]

Me neither.

Since you've been gone? [ She has to take a minute to think back before port. ]

Kind of crap. Ladd's been murdering people left and right.

[creatingalegacy]

[Oh god. One of her worst fears about what might happen in her absence has come to pass.]

Can you give me their names?

[ichoosefight]

Crane, Prefect... someone else. You should ask Duo, he's his warden.

[creatingalegacy]

Prefect? Again?

[ichoosefight]

I wouldn't know about 'again'. We're not keeping weekly records anymore, so it's hard to keep track of who kills who when.

[creatingalegacy]

...okay.

[She is facepalming so hard, unseen by anyone.]

This fuckin' port--did anything happen to Lua or Gaheris? Or Jesse?

[ichoosefight]

I know Jesse and Lua were caught, and I think I saw Gaheris in the ring.

[creatingalegacy]

[Oh, that doesn't sound good.]

Ring? What ring?

[ichoosefight]

The death-match one. Gladiator style. That's where I spent most of port, so I'm sort of out of the loop.

[creatingalegacy]

Was he killed? Were you?

[ichoosefight]

I'm sorry, I don't really know. I couldn't see much. You should check the infirmary, it's pretty crowded.

I got through, just barely. [ Only because Kon sacrificed himself so none of them would have to. ]

[creatingalegacy]

I'll check there soon. And I'm glad you weren't killed.

You don't know if Lua or Jesse died either, right?

[ichoosefight]

If they did, they didn't stay in the infirmary long.

[creatingalegacy]

Okay. I can deal with this.

Thanks for the update, Stephanie.

[ichoosefight]

No problem. Welcome back.