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[crocodilesmiles]

kano and his friends in the dan, hmm...

let me think i can come up with more tomorrow!

[quackery]

i bet one of us could figure out a way to ask him and make it sound casual if nothing else!

[crocodilesmiles]

i could pester him and caesar together, maybe help him tease caesar, i'm nosy like that so it could work!

[quackery]

that would be great! do you think the initiative would let us have one of the rooms in this place for a while?

ohhhh this is so exciting

[crocodilesmiles]

you think twelve guys are going to stop us from using one room
i think this is as good as done!

[quackery]

okay cool! i think him and gil are going on a mission soon so that might make it even easier to plan because they won't be here to hear about it for a bit

[crocodilesmiles]

yay! this will be good!

we def need to invite lenalee and maybe allen but not tyki and maybe lavi not not also jack

JACK IS NOT ALLOWED
please

[quackery]

hey what's wrong with jack??

oh wait

which jack are we talking about

[crocodilesmiles]

jack from oz's world
i like jack who is friends with rin he's cool

[quackery]

ohhh okay

what's wrong with jack from oz's world?

[crocodilesmiles]

he's just someone to be careful around
doubly so since oz won't be
you know how i mentioned stubborn before? be careful, thats all

he gives me an uncomfortable feeling
but he seems nice so that
well
be careful!

[quackery]

why won't oz?

why does he give you a bad feeling if he seems nice

[crocodilesmiles]

appearances are deceiving & all
oz says he's a hero
so oz doesn't want anything but that to be true

[quackery]

well what makes you have a bad feeling about him? i mean what did he do wrong?

[crocodilesmiles]

i'm not sure i want to say in a place like this

[quackery]

okay do you want to meet up somewhere? or if you would rather not say that's fine too!

[crocodilesmiles]

we can meet up! it's not that i mind, i just
hmm
it's something to think about but not something to toss to oz
when you get people being defensive they stop hearing and stop listening
oz gets defensive with jack

[quackery]

how's the observatory?

[crocodilesmiles]

sounds like a nice place to roll through in about half an hour or so!

[quackery]

okay! i'll be there

[crocodilesmiles]

( bundled up against the chill (it wasn't cold, precisely, but Collette felt cooler than usual), the teen finds herself by the monitors showing stars and a few shots of the Earth, looking away from them and out the lonely window. She wonders how reinforced it is, to exist here, but it's nice.

Probably the least claustrophobic part of this base.

Her fingers fidget with the blanket over her legs and in her lap, plucking at it, letting it fall back down, then smoothing it out. She's stuck with what Break had said a while ago, not saying anything for or against Jack. It just came up as something she typed without thinking: Don't Involve Jack. She could still explain it as tension between Xerxes and Jack, but that wouldn't precisely be fair.

She just wonders what to trust Ahiru with without overburdening her with the kinds of secrets Collette has learned to bear. )

[quackery]

[She wanders into the observatory around thirty minutes later, giving a smile when she sees Collette. She hurries over, taking a seat next to her.]

Are you feeling cold?

[crocodilesmiles]

A little.

( She admits with a small, wry grin. )

I don't know if I actually am, or looking out into space is making me feel that way. It's cool, but maybe a bit too literally!

[quackery]

[She nods.]

It's sort of weird. I mean, you look out the window and it seems all neverending and infinite, but we're still in a pretty small space in here. I mean, not that I can really complain.

[She doesn't like it, of course. Coming from Exsilium, a place where she could finally roam around as she wished (not that she left the borders often, of course, but the choice meant worlds to her) to here was almost akin to torture. She feels boxed in again after learning at last how wonderful it was to experience the opposite.

Still, considering what happened to the Exiles who were left there on Earth, it feels awfully selfish and ungrateful to feel this way.]

Anyways, we were going to talk about Jack, right?

[crocodilesmiles]

( It's just another cage. Collette rubs against it with the memory of the Holding Compound; but here, there's no one to prick her with needles, to argue over her faults, to observe a blooming bruise on her leg and consider it a job well done.

She smiles. Then she lets the expression fade. )

Jack tried killing one of the kids in the hospital, back during the last round of bombings we had in June. When everyone was sick, and we were helping the Exiles evacuate underground.