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[fintastic]

[ As soon as the transporter is back up, Feferi comes back from her mission and after getting caught up on things, is not very happy. She's been given the run down, she's skimmed all the posts and comments. Even her fins are all puffed out, it's that serious. Even though most of the known mutineers have been captured now, she still feels the need to say her own piece.

Sollux is somewhere in the background making faces and being generally disgruntled. ]

So, the next time anyone wants to try and take over, maybe they should stop and think it through a little more! Maybe don't strand people on missions, or try to think about those of us do not have anywhere to go back to except being dead, or worse! Try to think about everyone else's worlds that need protecting!

If you really want change, you should try helping us! The Department of Initiative-Transport Relations exists for a reason, and when we opened, I asked everyone for their thoughts, and barely got any. Why didn't you come to us?

[ So this is nothing that hasn't been said before, but... hey, she was stranded and she's mad. ]

I really hope you're happy now, because we are right back where we started! And I am going to go right back to what I was doing, except now we have even more work to do and I do not even know who I can trust to not want to ruin the one good thing some people have here.

[ She looks like she wants to say something witty or cutting to end her commentary, but she comes up with nothing and ends the feed with a little huff, before hitting the off button. ]

Comments

[oncearanger]

I lived near the ocean. I miss it too.

[fintastic]

I think what I miss most is swimming, but it burns my gills too much. Did you swim a lot?

[oncearanger]

Not until two or three years ago, actually.

I was bitten by a fish as a child, and I was afraid of the water for an embarrassing number of years. But there's nothing I'd love better than a swim now.

I guess because it makes you feel alive.

[fintastic]

A fish! What kind of fish?

[ She can't imagine any fish with a bite that scary. Not any Earth fish, anyway. Were Earth oceans hiding something she didn't know about? ]

[oncearanger]

I actually don't know. I yanked my finger out and ran---I wasn't interested in identifying it, but I wish I had.

It was small, though. About the size of my thumb.

[fintastic]

[ That's actually kind of cute, and she bites back a giggle. ]

It probably wanted to be friends! Fish can't talk or hug you, so they have to do what they can.

[oncearanger]

It wanted a cordial relationship with my finger?

[Billy seems to doubt, to say the least.]

I always thought it simply looked like food.

[fintastic]

Both. Probably both. Food can be friends too, right?

[oncearanger]

...the food chain would dampen any potential friendship, I think.

[fintastic]

Not if the fish doesn't know you plan on eating him!

[oncearanger]

I didn't plan to!

...I still don't like to eat fish, to be honest. But most humans do.

[fintastic]

Really? I love fish! Even Earth fish is pretty okay.

[oncearanger]

Where are the fish better?

[fintastic]

Alternia! It's where I'm from. The fish there are a lot bigger than your finger too.

[oncearanger]

We have bigger fish too. Far bigger than me.

The small ones were just in the river I visited.

[fintastic]

Like sharks and stuff? I am talking even bigger!

[oncearanger]

What's bigger than a great white shark?

[fintastic]

A greater white shark?

[oncearanger]

I'm not familiar with the species.

But I'd love to see that, if it existed.

[fintastic]

If I find one, you will be the first to know!