[closed] The Are Vee Bees are at it again...

[a_shadow]

Who: Agents Texas, Washington, and Carolina. Oh, and someone named Leonard Church, too.
What: Welcoming a new roommate
When: Now
Where: Islet #4, Cottage #3
Warnings: Canon typical language

[ Things have been changing a lot in the cottage, but one constant remains: Ami, the tigerlily. She's wandering in and out of the hut, as usual, investigating all the comings and goings of its residents. Meanwhile, said residents have much to discuss. Carolina has been invited to come stay in Maine's former room by Wash, and moving day has come. Besides this, the usual daily work of living has continued.

Living on an island in some kind of alternate reality Pacific tropical paradise does leave some things feeling unreal, after all.

So they might as well mingle. It's time to get to know each other again. ]

Comments

[a_shadow]

You didn't notice.

[ It's said as a sort of confirmation, but it's not said in a questioning tone, because she believes it. That's nothing like the experience she had when she'd left the Moira. But nothing in these alternate realities seems to be consistent in any way.

She shakes her head. ]

Well, it's good to have you back.

[uptightness]

Not with my experience.

[She can't speak for anyone else. Wash seemed to think that there might have been something else, but if there is for others, it hadn't happened for her. It had felt like nothing more than the blink of an eye.]

Thanks. It's... strange, but not exactly bad.

[a_shadow]

Considering in a lot of cases it seems like we'd be dead otherwise, it's all right.

[ Except for the whole thing where some unknown force is jerking them around, but she's not going to get into that. ]

[uptightness]

There is that for you guys.

[And for Maine and CT. Wash and her... So far they hadn't met their ends. But, who knew. Five minutes, ten days, four months, a year. She had no idea how much time she had left.]

I guess something is better than nothing.

[a_shadow]

Yeah. There's that.

[ Tex sits back and rests her shoulder back against the back of the bench, watching Carolina work on the mango. Tex knows her tendency to keep things to herself influences how Carolina sees her, so she searches her mind for something she can share that isn't too personal. Anything to do with the denouement of the Project is right out. And anything to do with her life here, same. So she reaches for the one place that's lost to her. ]

In the last place I went, like this place, things were a lot different for me. They made me the schoolteacher there.

[uptightness]

[There is a blink from her, and she can't help but give a small snorted laugh at that. Of course Carolina does pause afterwards, realizing how it sounded. Leaning back slightly, resting the mango in her hands, she glances back to Texas.]

Er, sorry. A schoolteacher... Any subject or grade...?

[a_shadow]

All of them. I had to come up with my own curriculum and spend my time chasing down truant kids—most of them were most of the time—and teach them things. I used archery to teach math.

[uptightness]

I'm surprised you had any truant kids...

[As she would have thought that most would have been scared of pissing Texas off.]

[a_shadow]

[ She shrugs. ]

We had some strong-willed kids on that ship. Some real know-it-alls, too. They had gone through so much in the places they'd come from...

[ She gazes into the distance for a moment, then snaps out of the reverie. ]

I didn't want to make their problems worse by being too rigid, you know?

[uptightness]

I... would have liked to have seen that.

[It does sound rather outlandish, but then again, there's Tex before her, with a body.]

[a_shadow]

I did nearly lose my patience a few times, but...I held it together somehow.

Probably because I knew I could just ride my motorcycle down the corridors later on. In abandoned parts of the ship, of course.

[uptightness]

I'm guessing putting up with the Reds and Blues, so to speak, probably helped to prepare you...