mental link, day 32

[headinjuries]

[ Sam crashed hard after the vigil, because between all the lies making him feel like he was going to puke and trying to pick them apart giving him one mother of a headache, staying awake felt like something you only do if you really hate yourself.

Do all newfound psychic powers suck this bad? He was fine with just flying and blowing things up, thanks. ]

( By the way, just figured everybody should know: Seong-Hye Ngazi is full of crap, the Public Safety Commission isn't half as gung-ho about bringing the bomber to justice as she makes it sound, and I'm like ninety percent she actually knows who did it, but that part I'm not quite positive about.

So, you know. In case anybody wanted to break into her office or stalk her or something. I hear some of you guys are actually good at the cloak and dagger stuff.

You're welcome. )

[ He can be found in the common area of the Bearings, scrolling through news reports and radiating pure frustration, if anyone would rather comment to his face instead of over the link. ]

Comments

[adamance]

( No, you just assumed I'm like any dictator you've met before. Or how you envision yourself, perhaps.

I'm greater than all of that in not needing it. What do you make of that? )

[She is talking herself up a bit partly to counter his arrogance with her own brand of it.]

[inflori]

( That you're a fucking liar. But hey, at least I think you're too smart to lie to yourself about it, so that's a point in your favor. )

[adamance]

( An interesting notion, given that those words involved a great deal of denial.

Though I suppose you just told me I have the right of it. I do. )

[inflori]

( Everyone thinks they do. )

[adamance]

( So you admit that you don't? It's about time, Petre.

As it is, you may want to find more confidence in your words. )

[inflori]

[ His thoughts stir with irritation, jaw setting where she can't see it. For all the shit that he's talking, he really doesn't like being reminded that he's not as powerful as he'd like to be. ]

( ... I know my place. ) [ Which, until they'd come to take him, was serving the Devil Herself. One wrong move and she'd just throw him into Hell, the destination he'd been made for in the first place. ] ( Why don't you go ahead and learn yours. You'll do everyone a favor. Maybe even embarrass yourself a little less. )

[adamance]

( Why are you so desperate to hurt me? )

[inflori]

( Because it's what I do. Why are you so desperate to lead? )

[adamance]

( Because it's what I do.

I wouldn't call it desperation. I was born for this. )

[inflori]

( Who told you that. )

[adamance]

[Explain more of her culture or leave him hanging for another day.

She definitely decides to go with the option that involves "be more of a pain in the ass."]

( Perhaps I'll have cause to explain that to you later.

I have no reason to at the moment. )

[inflori]

( Yawn. )

[ Which will. Probably be his response on the hypothetical day she does decide to tell him. He's a lost cause. ]