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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[servitor]

[He tilts his head, in such a way that even the coeurl tilts its head.

Then he laughs softly, shaking his head.]

( I don't think I'm the one you need to impress. Just give the right orders, do the right thing. It's not that hard to earn my faith and trust. And I don't think I'll be disappointed. )

[Yet he knows the words and actions are deceptively simple. After all, it took a series of heroic acts and brash deeds to earn an unrelenting trust from a majority of his comrades. He could've been promoted, been a captain, lieutenant, what have you.

But he didn't. The front lines is where he wanted to be. In every sense, he was the glaive of the king, the knife the legends said came from the gods to slay the darkness.]

[shri]

[ Do the right thing.

If there were words that could make a ruler - any ruler, laugh until they were sick and their advisors begin to talk about soothing drinks to ease that hysterical sound, it might just be that. ]

( What a thing that is to do. Very well. I will attempt it. )

[servitor]

( See? It told you it's not that hard to earn my faith. )

[It's better than giving no comment, even less so for trying. Trying's a pretty good way to go about things in his book, and that earns plenty of respect on his behalf.]

[shri]

( We'll see about that.)

[ Young men could be so very willful about the things they thought were simple. But then, it wasn't so much about earning, she supposed. She would do what she would, she always had. Didn't much ask for except for everything. ]

close it up here?

[servitor]

( Yeah, I guess we will. )

[Young? He hasn't felt young in years. Willful, though?

Willpower is what he has in spades, even when it backfires.]

sounds good!

[shri]

( I'll call on you when the time comes. See how you fare with your promises then. )

[ A good bye, so far as it goes, her mind detangling from his. ]