03rd Landing . video

[landfall]

Really? I still don't have an inmate? Come on.

[ Hey Barge, have Racetrack in a sweatshirt with her hair messily pulled back. Lookin' good messy. Like she spent half an hour in the mirror getting it to look messy-perfect, because she did, and don't judge her, she hasn't had half an hour to spend on her hair in years. ]

Anyway. Attention, people with - well, medium-bad judgment. Especially Mal. Triad - it's a card game, like poker - my place, the stakes are clothes because I don't have any money. First four or five takers are invited. And, because of the stakes, no one underage.

Oh, and Felix Gaeta is not invited.

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[landfall]

Then bring your wounded pride, and game on.

[deshabille]

I'm still going to win.

[landfall]

I don't know, I can wear a lot of layers.

[deshabille]

I can win a lot of hands.

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[landfall]

You're going to go poking around about Felix, aren't you?

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[deshabille]

Probably. Yes.

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[landfall]

...at least you're honest.

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[deshabille]

I don't see any particular reason to lie.

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[landfall]

Could you just ask me instead?

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[deshabille]

I did.

[Kind of. Not really. Hm.]

. . . What's he done?

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[landfall]

Turns out he's done a lot, some of which I didn't even know about, and it makes me feel pretty stupid for trusting him. I have to work out what I want to do next.

None of it happened here.

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[deshabille]

Not here. [All right. This is weird territory.]

Do you know everything, now?

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[landfall]

I - don't know.

I hope so.

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[deshabille]

And if you don't?

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[landfall]

Then I'll get mad again. And at some point, I won't want to not get mad anymore.

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[deshabille]

Then I hope he knows you well enough to have told the full story.

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[landfall]

He didn't tell it.

It got forced out of him by that nightmare place.

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[deshabille]

Ah.

It went after him, then.

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[landfall]

Yeah. And me, a little bit. Mostly him.

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[deshabille]

Good that you can both handle yourselves, then.

[She pauses, tight-lipped.]

I won't poke around. [Probably.]

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[landfall]

I would appreciate that, because it means you respect me. Even a little bit.

[ When Racetrack wants to be manipulative, she is not subtle. ]

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[deshabille]

[She laughs. Not mean, just. Well played, Racetrack.]

I'd hate for it to seem as though I didn't respect you quite a lot.

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[landfall]

Well, good.

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[deshabille]

Mm.

None of you got irreparably damaged, though.

[Phrased as a statement rather than a question because Reasons.]

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[landfall]

Probably not.