mental link | day :034

[ophidia]

[The mental impression that comes with the connection is clean, precise. Confident in reaching like this, touching so many minds at once. If anything there's a desire, simmering beneath, to press and push even further than one simple stated request.]

( I need everything we have on the Carpathans. )

[And he sounds like he expects to get it.]

Comments

[deployed]

[ Bellamy's answer comes as an echo of Misato's; the why? is unspoken but present, weighting his answering question in suspicion. ]

( What are you doing with the Carpathans? )

[ophidia]

( Are you asking what I'm directly doing with them, or is this more of a query about if I'm trying to do some real fucking work on this job? )

[deployed]

[ honestly, the latter, but— ]

( What are you doing with them? )

[ the thought is clipped, skepticism growing as bellamy absorbs the brusqueness of richie's reply. ]

[ophidia]

( Nothing. Yet. This little talk, this was meant to be about finding out what intel we already had to see what gaps needed filling. Nobody told me I was supposed to pass some test first. )

[deployed]

( You shouldn't be surprised if people try to figure out if you're going to do something drastic with the information. )

[ Though that probably said more about the events of their missions so far than about Richie himself. ]

[ophidia]

( We're all on the same mission. Which is, as far as I've seen, getting nowhere. But after this, I'm not surprised about that anymore. )

[deployed]

( "We're all on the same mission" doesn't mean you're not about to make a risky play and put us all in danger while you're trying to help. )

[ophidia]

( Gatekeeping only works when it's consistent. )

[And nothing in this crew had any consistency.]

( If you're worried about risk, you should be looking at the ones not asking about anything at all. )