mental link: day 34

[erbier]

[ It is actually quite late when Ilde's soft voice moves through the hosts, her scent of smoke and earth. She is at a club somewhere deep in the city, dazzled by noise and light, something you are free to establish if you look for it. ]

( It has been suggested to me by a hacker named Y that I throw a concert to lure our bombers out again. )

[ This part is forthright, a statement of fact with no value attachment to it. ]

( I believe she is questioning who I really am. If I refuse this idea, I may encourage that. )

[ This may not be strictly true, but it is how Ilde has perceived their conversation. ]

( She seems to know something, but is it worth losing my guise? If not, how am I to refuse this suggestion and maintain it. I do not know if she is a part of the group who contacted us before. She may already know I am false and this is all a game. )


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[snaphiss]

[Mara realizes she has no idea how she would honor the dead. Revenge, once, was her answer, but she knows now he was never worth avenging. So... time to lie? Sort of.]

( We don't honor the dead on my planet. )

[adamance]

( The dead are gone and the living are hungry.

Your suggestions do not consider the living, either. )

[Did she just quote herself?

Yes, yes she did.

Arrogant commander at her best.]

[snaphiss]

( What's your name? )

[adamance]

( Lexa kom Trikru. )

[The full name, sans title. There's a sense that she would normally give less of it in a more casual situation, but she's gone from "not harsh" to "tense" fairly swiftly.]

[snaphiss]

( Mind your own business, Lexa from Triku. )

[adamance]

( I am inside your head. )

[snaphiss]

( I am unpleasantly aware of that, believe me. )

( Can you perhaps keep your presence in my head to a minimum? )

[adamance]

( Don't give me cause to give you my attention. )

[snaphiss]

( Is that a threat? )

[adamance]

( My threats are clearly stated. )

[snaphiss]

( Then here is my advice to you: thank whatever gods you pray to that I'm in a good mood today. )

[adamance]

( My people believe in the power of those who have actually lived.

As one of them, it seems as if you are now throwing around threats, whereas I merely said I may speak to you again. )

[snaphiss]

( Yes, that was a threat. )

( Remember it. )

[adamance]

( I'll remember how easy it is to incite a reaction within you. )

[snaphiss]

[Welp, can't argue with that, but,]

( Unlike you, the woman who contacted me twice, at length, to argue over my daring to make a suggestion to someone who was asking for suggestions. )

[adamance]

( As I said, you got my attention. )

[batmotif]

[Bruce can't imagine what it would be like to not honor the memory of those lost, given that loss is a trait that defines him -- but given he doesn't want to go into that, he pushes past it.]

(Even if that's the case, we should at least treat the lives of the living as more than bait.)

[snaphiss]

( So you would never purposefully put the lives of yourself or others in danger for greater gain? For a greater mission, I mean, not out of pure selfishness. )

[batmotif]

(No. Not the lives of others.) [Note the omission there.] (We don't need to rely on desperate measures anyway. There are other leads to follow.)

[snaphiss]

( We don't need to choose one lead over the other. )

[But.]

( But if we had to, I would go after the commissioner rather than this, yes. )

[batmotif]

(Plans are underway where that's concerned. I intend to pay her office a visit.)

[snaphiss]

[Time for a less public venues!!! Mara switches to contacting him directly, boop.]