mental link, v important questions;

[narcissithstic]

(Tell me, have any of you spoken to Cathaway within the last two months.)

[The newer Hosts are the most likely suspects, but perhaps through the link—

Perhaps he feels nothing not because of distance, but because she's chosen to keep him locked out. The possibility is a nagging itch at the base of his skull; he'd rather know for certain.]

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[wrackful]

[Crazy? Maybe, maybe not. Murphy has a long list of reasons why he doesn't want to be here, and he can definitely add "being able to know for certain when people are talking nuts" to it.]

( And you think everything here is going to be exactly the same as whatever the hell you're used to. )

[narcissithstic]

(Yes.) [Said ever so simply.] (Why wouldn't it be?

Should I expect less? Cower more? Fear every corner just like every close-minded host that would rather lie down in their own discomfort than accept the possibility of something greater?)

[Hosts like Steve Rogers or the newly arrived Paladin child.

Are you one of them, Murphy?]

[wrackful]

[If it's possible to feel the universe's biggest eyeroll through a mental connection, that's exactly what Ren is getting right now.]

( Yeah, I wasn't talking about cowering. I was talking about realising we're all up to our necks in alien crap. Assuming any of it's going to be the same as what you're used to sounds like a quick way to get yourself killed, but maybe that's what you're going for. )

[narcissithstic]

(To me, it isn't 'alien'.)

[This time the thought isn't judgmental or livid: only an admission of fact. When you've lived with the universe in your head, too little becomes too bizarre to swallow down.]

(But I wouldn't imagine someone unfamiliar with the Force to understand that.)

[-oh never mind, there's the arrogance.]

[wrackful]

( So you already had a bug in your head. Did they take it out to put the new one in, or have you got two in there now? )

[narcissithstic]

(The Force isn't 'a bug'.)

[Does he sound snippy about that? Because he's snippy about it forreal.]

[wrackful]

( Fine. Enlighten me. What is "The Force"? )

[Is he saying the capital letters wrong? Whoops.]

[narcissithstic]

[A long, considerate beat, and then:]

( ...How 'enlightened' do you want to be? )

[wrackful]

[The fact there's a need for that kind of clarification should probably give Murphy some caution. But he's in the groove of belligerent irreverence now, and doesn't see a need to jump out of it.]

( I don't know, you're the one who knows what it is. )