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[landfall]

[ Here, Barge, have Racetrack who has just woken up from being a Navy sailor and fighting pirates and seriously what the frak. ]

I am so confused.

[ Help. :c ]

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[deadly_ned]

A breach.

That is to say.

An...event taking place on or around the ship we are currently on that's designed to put us out of our comfort zone even more than we already area and somehow...

do...

something.


The actual reasoning behind it is escaping me at the moment but I'm sure it's a very compelling reason nonetheless.

[landfall]

And... fight pirates.

Okay.

[ A beat. ]

So this is real.

[deadly_ned]

All of it's real. In one form or another.

But this is the reality we call home.

[landfall]

Okay.

All right.





Hi. I'm Racetrack.

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Racetrack. My name is Ned. I'm a paired warden and a piemaker.

[landfall]

I'm also a warden. And very new. And a pilot.

I can't even tell you how long it's been since I had a pie.

[deadly_ned]

Ship pilot or aircraft pilot?

I'd be happy to make you a pie. Sometimes a pie helps soften the blow to all the newish things.

[landfall]

Viper. Um, spacecraft.

[deadly_ned]

You're an astronaut.

[landfall]

A what?

[deadly_ned]

A.

Someone who goes into space.

There are few enough people from my world that that's something of a major accomplishment.

[landfall]

Oh. Well. From my world, everyone who isn't in space is... dead.

[deadly_ned]

Then it's an accomplishment that you're



Alive...?


That's a horrible thing to say. I'm sorry.

[landfall]

[ SHE CANNOT BELIEVE HE JUST SAID THAT.

Stares at him for a moment, and then bursts out laughing. ]

[deadly_ned]

I'm at least 70% certain that laughter in this case is a sign I haven't been too blatantly offensive where the matter of death is concerned.

[landfall]

Oh, gods, that was what I needed.

I'm not, by the way. Alive. Well, I am now, but I died.

[deadly_ned]

..Ah.


I'm sorry. That's. I mean, I've never...personally experienced death from that point of view, but I can't imagine it's the most...pleasant thing to go through.

I'm sorry. The only thing I can offer that would bring even a fraction of comfort would be a pie.

And I can say with relative confidence that pie tastes better after you've died.

I'm not sure why that is.

[landfall]

Then it better taste frakking amazing, because now you've built my expectations up.

[deadly_ned]

It will.


I promise it will.

[landfall]

Tell me where and when and how many forks I should bring.

[deadly_ned]

You're just one person. One person, one fork.

It's symmetrical that way.

[landfall]

I have two hands.

[deadly_ned]

Are you ambidextrous?

[Private, Threadjackin' all over this post]

[itstopped]

You're not going to save a slice for your inmate friend?

[Private, Threadjackin' all over this post]

[landfall]

I'll save a slice if you get there before I eat all the slices.

Pie, Felix. It's pie.