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[quackery]

what's the coolest thing you've ever done on a mission or the best place you've gone

OR hypothetically if you could choose one place to go for a mission what place would you want to go? i'm curious

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[crocodilesmiles]

Bits and pieces when either of us are awake enough to bother with the talking and listening thing on that stuff!

[quackery]

haha is he really asleep that often?

[crocodilesmiles]

He's asleep a lot less when I'm around him than he'd like, I'm sure!

[quackery]

you two must be really good friends if he lets you keep him from sleeping! haha

[crocodilesmiles]

We are! Though he got smart and started making me sleep with him so that I wouldn't keep him up all the time. Wiley, that guy!

[quackery]

that's when you should say you're not tired and make him do something

[crocodilesmiles]

Exactly! He just got to trump that with "but aren't you supposed to be resting and recovering" so it turns out there is a downside to people paying attention to what your doctors say!

[quackery]

wait recovering from what?

[crocodilesmiles]

Oh, nothing much! A minor case of exhaustion basically.

[quackery]

oh jeez what happened?

[crocodilesmiles]

I got real tired! Basically was working too hard so I had to rest for a while afterward. Like when you fly too much and you need time to recover? Just normal stuff like that!

( she's lying, but only in the sense that working hard meant pushing way past her own boundaries, and normal stuff meant normal for her, not other people. )

[quackery]

okay but you're feeling better now??

[crocodilesmiles]

Much better!

( but months still away from being back to where she was before June. )

So you, what's your answer to this question?

[quackery]

oh man that's hard! i always thought europe seemed really beautiful from what i learned about it but i already lived in germany so not there. but really i'd like to go as many places as i can! even somewhere that nobody's really heard of could be really beautiful.

(audio/action) JACKING IN

[maddeninghatter]

[ If, by chance, Collette's in the apartment, she'll hear a loud SCREEEEEEE!

...which might actually not be a feedback squeal. ]

Collette!

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[crocodilesmiles]

( She certainly is! Though really by now she expects that's tablet feedback territory, and she sets down her tablet on the kitchen table, next to her mug of tea. )

Uh, Break? ( A little louder: ) Are you okay?

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[maddeninghatter]

[ Appearing from underneath the kitchen table (because honestly) and crawling on top of it, where he sits with his legs crossed. ]

Hi hiii!

[ That burst of temper seems to be under control... for now! ]

Wanted to ask you a question.

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[crocodilesmiles]

Sure! Just one?

( She lets her smile change her tone, hands resting on the table. She shifts to lean forward a little, curious. )

What's up?

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[maddeninghatter]

Perhaps you could tell me a bit more about this Caesar person--

[ His voice has all the lightness of suppressed rage that is just about to go out of control, in the absence of a satisfactory explanation. ]

--who makes you sleep with him, hm?

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[crocodilesmiles]

( As she hears Caesar's name, she's about to speak -- but then Break goes on.

And it hits her exactly how that sounds.

... So forgive her, Break, when her immediate reaction is to burst out into spontaneous laughter. )

You make it sound so scandalous! ( stiffling her laughter with her hands. oh man! ) Caesar's a chronic napper. He conned me into it too! While everyone was gone.

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[maddeninghatter]

While everyone was--

[ gone.

Ah. Please pause for excruciating pang of guillllllllt! ]

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[maddeninghatter]

[ Right, now that that is over: ]

Just the two of you? "Napping"? Without anybody else around?

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[crocodilesmiles]

( She can't help the eyebrow that inches up, or the peculiar curl to her lips. It's funny. She'd have to say she never expected someone to actually make it seem like it mattered what she did in her personal time around here.

It's neither bad nor good. Or maybe it's both. It's definitely interesting. )

Do you know how long it took me to convince him to let me kiss him? Now he ruins most of that by going "do we have to? I just want to sleep..."

( Insert exaggerated sigh, unsure how comfortable she is talking about this. It's easier to tease and make it into jokes of their own. Haha, isn't it so funny. )

So yeah... just the two of us! Sometimes even with... ( her volume drops down, low and conspiratorial ) ...the door closed!

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[maddeninghatter]

Ah-haha!

[ He's got a great, big smile fixed on his features. ]

That is... haha! That is not very proper, you know. But it's all right, because perhaps you didn't know that. So I'm telling you now. Perhaps this Mister Caesar needs telling, too.

[ And he's about to hop off the table and do some talking to Caesar. His cane is quite eloquent in such situations... ]

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[maddeninghatter]

Eh? He what?

[ --just then, the particulars of what she's saying actually filter through. ]