04/voice

[flightlessbird]

We have found the— [ A pause, and quieter, to the side: "What is the word?" A heavy sigh from further off, which sounds kinda like Loki. "It is vandal." ] —Vandals! Who ruined things. We found them, even though Roslyn would not help.

I have named them stump for hands, because stump means not to have a hand. [ she sounds so pleased with her own cleverness. ]

If anyone needs to find and punish someone, then you should ask Loki. He is very good at it.

[ And in the back again, from Loki: ] But not without a price.

Comments

[studieswaitressing]

That seems -- wasteful.

[flightlessbird]

It is okay. They were not using them.

[studieswaitressing]

I doubt that very much.

[flightlessbird]

Not very often.

[studieswaitressing]

Again, doubting that.

[flightlessbird]

They only used them for ruining things.

[studieswaitressing]

Did they steal anything, or just break things?

[flightlessbird]

Yes! [ nothing of Artika's, mind you, because she didn't keep anything there, but... ] A many things!

[studieswaitressing]

[Here's that moral grey area she's been trying to figure out lately.

Well. For now...]

Okay.

[flightlessbird]

[ and a smile! ]

It took us very long to find them, too. So they had extra time to have hands.

[studieswaitressing]

[...oh, Artika.]

It was silly of you to do this in public.

[flightlessbird]

We did it when no one saw. [ like in a dark alley or some shit, it was wonderfully shifty ]

[studieswaitressing]

And now you're telling everyone here that you did it.

[flightlessbird]

[ a shrug ] Yes? They will know not to break things we have.

[studieswaitressing]

Did you figure out what they did, first? For jobs?

[What if they're some stupidly high-up Initiative member, Artika, there could be unintended consequences.]

[flightlessbird]

Yes, but you should ask him. I did not know the word.

[studieswaitressing]

...yeah, okay.