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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[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ It's more than intimacy. It's occupying the same mental space, it's for a moment bleeding so much into someone else that your breath might as well be their own, it's a tangled mess where similarities only serve to heighten the differences.

She has a piece of him now, and her mind has twisted into his even after they no longer share the space he temporarily created for them. It lingers, their connection stronger than it'd been before, even as they pull aware from each other. ]

It's who I am.

[ He's not sure he knows how to keep it any more, if he ever did. Doesn't know how to do anything but leave it up there for her to take, if it ever comes to it -

If she ever believes herself worthy of anything like comfort, when the people she failed will never get it. It's familiar, achingly familiar, from himself and Shiro and Bucky, but from that, too, he knows not to push it where it can't be accepted.

Not now, anyway, though he won't take it back either.

He untangles his legs from hers as he pushes himself upwards. He can feel Shiro raging in the back of his mind, worried and angry and seconds away from losing control, and his mind is already split as he watches her, making no move to stop her. ]