mental link | day: 006

[shri]

[ Her options are at this point, are brood up how much she wants to kill Damon and Elena, or get on with work. She didn't do so well at brooding, though her mind is still so new, so sharp and edged and not kept inside of herself. But in this case, a fire trying to find new kindling to keep itself going. Her own impatience and frustration are evident. But when isn't she anyway - ]

( I was informed when I arrived that we need to be ... ascertaining particular pieces of information.

Have we begun such? If not, should we not begin planning to reconnoitre? )

[ She has already plans, but even so, if it's already been done - well, she's happy to be told if it means she doesn't have to go chasing her own tail. ]

( And does anyone know how to use these - light books - that has the time to show me? It keeps flashing at me and I cannot make it stop. I think it wants something. )

[ The data pad, she means the data pad, she's grouchy at it for not! giving her! the things! she wants! Being a grandma in space is a trial. ]

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[wille]

[ This is precisely what she expects from you, Lakshmi. No matter that any form of cohesive planning is a doomed goal to pursue. ]

( I've been sidling up to the Meradan. Low-hanging fruit and all.

Have you talked to Pidge? Tiny girl, short red hair. She might have something to tell you about technomancy. )

[shri]

[ She'll put together a plan, with whoever wants to do it, even if it means yanking out her own teeth in the process. ]

( I've received assistance already, but I will follow up with her should another problem come about. ) [ Which it will, no doubt. ]

( How goes your efforts so far? )

[wille]

[ This is the kind of persistence she likes to hear, let's do this. ]

( Hmm . . . We're supposed to feel in our guts which of them is our target, right? But it's really not that simple. The tough part is knowing which of them is the enemy, but I see enemies all around. )

[shri]

[ The hum of her thoughts is steady as drummed fingers. A rhythmic tap of marching lines. ]

( Well, in one manner of regard, they are.

Some are just more immediate than others. That is the choices we need to make. )

[wille]

( But it's not up to us to choose, is it? )

[ If it were, they would choose the weakest one. If it were, she would choose the strongest one, to prove herself even stronger than. ]

( I get you though, it doesn't matter that they're all enemies or potential ones, it's a matter of finding the one most deadly. The others could be allies or just obstacles. )

[shri]

[ And if she could, Lakshmi would cut the knees out from everything. Whatever grew back after that - would be a matter to deal with. But that is her own test of temperance, now - adjusting from a war that took no prisoners.

There's a flicker there - of how she becomes when pressed into a corner. All teeth and ragged breathes. ]

( Just so, you do not win a war by fighting on all fronts. Not with our numbers, at least. )

[wille]

( Or our lack of coordination, like you said. )

[ Misato will fight wars others think her incapable of winning, because she knows that contrary to their preconceptions, she will. There's a method to her madness even if she can't explain it. But here? Here she doesn't know. ]

( Maybe chaos is our only advantage. The elements of ingenuity and unpredictability. )

[shri]

( It is by its very nature, to everyone's. But - as long as we move carefully... I think we can keep that anonymity on our side. )

[ Uses it too often to know otherwise anymore. ]

( Do you have anyone that answers to you here? )

[wille]

( Hmm, not in the way you might think. )

[ The nature of answering to a queen is markedly different from a soldier answering to a commanding officer to this tenuous sort of answering to she can barely count on. ]

( There are a handful I can ask a lot from, as for the rest-- well, it's a matter of convincing them. Some might be quicker to see reason. )