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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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[Private]

[landfall]

Unless you were betraying us to pirates, you have nothing to apologize for.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Well, I could apologise for being equally confused. [He rubs his hands, and smiles at the screen.] Should have known what we were getting into, coming on board, huh?

[Private]

[landfall]

I sure knew I was getting into something.

Seemed better than death.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

You too?

[The shock of death, that's all too real for him to cover it.]

[Private]

[landfall]

Oh.

Is that pretty common around here?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

I dunno. I just got here a few days ago.

[Private]

[landfall]

...right. I'm sorry. I'm so off-kilter.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

[Laughs nervously.]

It's okay. I think the pirate island threw everybody for a loop.

[Private]

[landfall]

Sure did me. Or, rather, it wasn't the island, but the waking up after the island.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Yeah, me too. Boss sure didn't mention that was gonna happen.

[Private]

[landfall]

And here I thought I knew to expect the unexpected.

So, what's your name?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Sam. I was a delivery boy before I got here.

[Private]

[landfall]

And now you're a... warden? Inmate?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Warden. You?

[Private]

[landfall]

Warden.

Racetrack, by the way. Margaret Edmondson, but call me Racetrack. Why'd the Admiral pick a delivery boy? What makes you so special?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Nice to meet you, Racetrack.

[Beat.]

I don't know, but I guess he thought I really needed a deal.

[Private]

[landfall]

Yeah, it's okay, I don't really know either. There wasn't much special about me.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

[Something else that she's said publically has attracted his attention.]

You've been in prison before?

[Private]

[landfall]

Yeah, actually. Tried to do what I thought was right in a frakked-up world and, surprise, it turned out pretty frakked-up. Who could've anticipated that?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

[Sympathetic noise, and then-]

Me too.

[Private]

[landfall]

What, the whole thing or just the prison thing?

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

The prison thing, but I guess the whole thing applies too.

[Private]

[landfall]

Ah.

Well, that would explain it. I guess. Why we're here.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

I guess. I don't really know how I'd help someone, though.

[Private]

[landfall]

Really? You have no idea?