station72 | mental link; day 49/50ish

[ Sam's... not normally one to use the mental link to talk to the Nest in general; he still prefers in person most of the time. But the only other option he can think of for something like this is to stick up flyers, so mental link it is. With his widened connection comes the feeling of feathers and a distance rush of wind. ]

( For those of you who don't know me - I'm Sam. I'm one of the people you can find spending half the day in the training hall. I know a lot of us have got our own training routine, but I'm looking to step outside mine a little.

Guess you could call this an interest check, see who'd be up for doing some training in working together. I know everyone ain't into the team thing and I'm not asking you to be, if you don't want to. Just looking for the willing. We're all doing missions together, it'd be nice to have some practice seeing how our skills can compliment each other.

Not gonna drop my resume on people who ain't interested, but I'll answer any questions you want about my experience. Or you can find me in the training hall every morning. )

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[The whole topic of training is one Murphy's pretty happy to ignore. But this catches his attention, enough to directly barge in.]

( What are you going to do? Predict what you'll get? )

( No, it's more than that, I think . . . )

[ Is she unsure? Is this really Misato?? ]

( I can choose which one it will be, and that will be the one we get. )

( So you can change it. )

[That's interesting.]

( Do you know what it's going to be before you do that? )

( Maybe. Yes. I think so? )

[ She's unwaveringly, unapologetically certain in the face of uncertainty, but the prospect of so much agency turns her apprehensive. ]

( I would need to know what I want to choose it, right? But if the one I choose is too improbable, it might not work. Anyway, I can always ask Cathaway, if she'd give me a straight answer, anyway. )

( She's not going to know the details on how yours works. She'll probably just make you do the same tests you're talking about. )

[He sounds pretty certain on that. As if he's asked her himself. And if testing is the next best step, then:]

( Cards are going to be better. Unless you know someone who can rig coin flips. )

( She'd know the options I can choose from, removed from cards and coins.

But talk to me, what are you thinking? I'll find us a deck of cards while you talk. )

( Someone shuffles, you pull a card, it's the card you wanted. The only way you're going to know for sure your power did that is if the person shuffling knows what card you should have pulled. )

[A beat.]

( That and whatever your blowback is. )

( Hmm . . . One card in a deck of 52 would be tough. But if we have all four Aces in a deck of, oh, 10? I will get the Ace even if you rig it. How's that? )

( Pretty sure I didn't say me, but okay. I wasn't doing anything anyway. )

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( C'mon, you're just as curious!

What's your thing? )

( Me? I'm a precog, apparently. ) [Or at least, that was the word Annie used for it.] ( But before you start getting curious about it, I don't get to turn it on for card games or coin flips. It just happens when it happens. )

( Wow. So you know what's gonna happen before it happens? Say, if a piano were to fall on your head, you'd know to look up sort of thing? )

( Yeah, that's what you'd think, right? But I don't get to see anything, I just know what I have to do. Piano's falling, my bug starts telling me to take four steps right. That's it. )

( Intuition's not a bad thing. You just know what you to do even if you can't explain it to someone else. But they'll know you're right before it's all over. )

[ Tooting her own horn, etc. ]

( Somehow I don't think the I told you so will feel that great if they're dead. )

( Oh yeah, don't do that, it's not very nice . . . The rest should listen to you now that they know, right? )

( I don't know who knows. )

[Which is less thinking about how word might travel, and more about how sometimes in the Nest you just know things. All he can say for sure is who he's told, and who he hasn't.]

( I'm not really into the whole "stand up and tell everyone your secret skills" thing that's been going around. )

( Why not? Scared you'll be volunteered for things you don't want? )

( If I was scared, do you think I'd be telling you? )

[ There's a chuckle, or the idea of it. Doesn't he know? Evasive action only invites pursuit. ]

( You tell me. If you insist that you're not, I might think you are. )

[This is the mental sensation of a teenager being very, very unimpressed with you right now, Misato.]

( Yeah, the answer's actually that I wouldn't tell you, because I'm not stupid. )

( My, you're prickly for someone so cute. Fine then. Still up for helping me figure this out? )

[There's a low frizzle of something close to confusion, but it's brief, pushed aside. He doesn't get called cute often, but for the exact same reason, he's not going to get stuck on it.]

( Sure, if you think you can put up with prickly. )

[It's kind of his default state.]

( I'll bring bandaids.

What's your name? I'm Misato. )

( You mean you haven't picked it up already? )

[Hivemind, etc. Knowing people's names before he knows them has almost gotten normal. Still:]

( It's Murphy. )

[John is an echo, never directly offered.]

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