Voice 049

[shenghuanzhe]

[Kage stares at the ruins of the Oceanview Bar. Someone (and he's pretty damn certain he knows who it was) has done a number on the place he likes to use to do his paperwork. Glass litters the floor and the whole thing is scorched, the mirrors smashed, all the alcohol and food ruined

Comments

[chopshopgoddess]

[She was all dark hair and smiles when she flopped into a seat next to him, seemingly oblivious to what he was doing at first.]

So I was thinkin', [This is how she starts her sentence, almost as though they had already been having a conversation,] that maybe next time we go at it on the tracks, we bump up either the difficulty level or the ante.

[She leans forward on the table, propping her chin on her elbows as she peers down, finally registering that oh hey he might actually be doing something.]

So, what's all this, huh?

[shenghuanzhe]

Hey, girlie.

[Kage doesn't sound upset that she's there and he pauses his work to look back at her. She looks cheerful as all hell, which is nice considering that it makes her even easier on the eyes.

He raises his eyebrows and takes a completed form and puts it down in front of her so she can see for herself. A few words are in English, but the rest is in a number of alien scripts. There's a few graphs, and a detailed diagram of a foot.

At the bottom is a FM. K, signalling that the figures are approved by Kage.]

Paperwork.

[chopshopgoddess]

[She peers at the paper in front of her, lifting a brow. The scripts are completely foreign to her, it's not anything she's ever seen, not even when dealing with the Allspark. She pulls it closer, leaning in so she can see a little better. Interesting.]

This is nothin' like I've ever seen before. [She glances up with a grin.] Doesn't even look human, y'know? What're you guys, a bunch of aliens? And what's with the foot?

[shenghuanzhe]

Aliens? Depends on what y'mean by it. And that--

[Kage points to the sheet she's holding.]

Is a record'a how many footsteps been taken on Decks Aught-One through Aught-Nine in th'past nine days. Among other things.

[Kage initials another sheet, flips it over.]

[missmimmi]

[It's food time again! And thankfully she didn't run into any half-dead people this time. Going to the buffet has become almost a taboo or something. But, you know, she can't avoid going to the buffet. She'd starve to death. And so things go.

As she's on her merry way to feed her famished self, she can't help but notice Kage sitting there. She stared at him a moment, just a second, before continuing on her way. But after a minute or so she paused, glanced back over, took a deep breath and finally shuffled her way to where he sat. Give her a second to be not-awkward]

Oh, um... first mate Kage?

[shenghuanzhe]

[Kage looks up at the pretty woman who approaches him and he smiles, sitting back from his papers.]

Mimmi, right? What's up, girlie.

[missmimmi]

[Wow, Mimmi has never really spoken to crew before. Besides the cook, and that sort of ended badly. Oh god ponk.

She's just a liiiittle bit intimidated]

I was.. I was wondering if the crew were still taking those frogs? I still have mine and, um... ja.

[shenghuanzhe]

You bet, girlie. Siddown.

[Kage pushes a chair across from him out with his foot.]

[fred_cassidy]

Who trashed your office?

[Fred is standing opposite Kage with his tray. The First Mate is clearly busy, so Fred's not going to invite himself to sit, but his curiosity demands an explanation. College pranks much more usually involve things like disassembling cars and reassembling them in the President's office, not vandalism and fires.

In fact, to Fred, the damage reads like a threat. He doesn't realize Chase is just throwing a temper tantrum.]

[shenghuanzhe]

A friend.

[Kage looks up when he sees Fred and squints.]

We got in an argument.

[Kage nearly tore Chase's throat out with his teeth, literally.]

Those frogs're nothin' but trouble, man.

[fred_cassidy]

This must be some new definition of "friendship" with which I was previously unfamiliar.

[Fred raises an eyebrow and then misinterprets on purpose.]

Mine seems perfectly happy in its terrarium.

[His frog could appear on the amphibian version of Cribs.]

[shenghuanzhe]

Yeah, well, you ain't usin' yours to ask questions that make you kick up a fuss.

[Kage points his pen at Fred, then flips over the one sheet and continues onto the next.]

I told him, you ain't gonna like my answer. He hears the answer, loses his mind. Kids.

[metharchy]

[Meth hadn't heard about what had happened between Kage and Chase yet, and she certainly hadn't made her way to the Oceanview bar yet. It was where she was headed, however, hoping to find Kage there. She'd just designed a new track for the hardcore mode in Deck 20, and figured she'd give him a first crack at it.

If she was lucky, she'd catch Kage at the bar finishing up paperwork. Meth considered it a lucky coincidence that she ran into him as he exited the elevators.]

...done already?