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FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
Fine.
Cranky.
[ A few minutes later, this is slipped under her door. He doesn't stick around to witness whatever reaction she may have. ]
Fine.
Cranky.
[ A few minutes later, this is slipped under her door. He doesn't stick around to witness whatever reaction she may have. ]
FROM: leng.kai@cdc.org
You think it works the same way here as it did back in the Alliance, don't you? That you swoop in, gather together a group of misfits, and save the galaxy.
FROM: leng.kai@cdc.org
You don't have any of the resources here that you have back home. You're on your own. Nobody to blame if this goes wrong but yourself. You know you'll lose a few of them, don't you?
You think it works the same way here as it did back in the Alliance, don't you? That you swoop in, gather together a group of misfits, and save the galaxy.
FROM: leng.kai@cdc.org
You don't have any of the resources here that you have back home. You're on your own. Nobody to blame if this goes wrong but yourself. You know you'll lose a few of them, don't you?
[She narrows her eyes faintly and rocks forward where she sits. Okay, consider her interest redirected from plotting how to best beat responsibility into Kaburagi back to Jasper.]
I did. What's the matter?
[She's not going to say the Neheda's on board medical tech is so expansive that it could fix everything under the sun (though something the CDC has is - a thought she dismisses forcefully; better not to think about Blue's mission regardless of how many bodies they have piling up now; whatever had been used to bring those recruits back wasn't accessible to them now, so might as well forget about it) - but Jasper's hands at least looked like they were pretty well taken care of.
So then what was the issue?]
I did. What's the matter?
[She's not going to say the Neheda's on board medical tech is so expansive that it could fix everything under the sun (though something the CDC has is - a thought she dismisses forcefully; better not to think about Blue's mission regardless of how many bodies they have piling up now; whatever had been used to bring those recruits back wasn't accessible to them now, so might as well forget about it) - but Jasper's hands at least looked like they were pretty well taken care of.
So then what was the issue?]
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Most of them are kids, Tali. How hard can it be?
[Even if Tali wasn't as talented with tech as she is, she's talking the absolute fundamentals here. Showing a couple of out of time children how to point and click on a blackglass wasn't exactly demanding work.
Not that Tali wouldn't be capable of more.]
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
I'll forward you some relevant data and we'll set up a time for me to throw you around
Most of them are kids, Tali. How hard can it be?
[Even if Tali wasn't as talented with tech as she is, she's talking the absolute fundamentals here. Showing a couple of out of time children how to point and click on a blackglass wasn't exactly demanding work.
Not that Tali wouldn't be capable of more.]
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
I'll forward you some relevant data and we'll set up a time for me to throw you around
[That might have been a more relevant concern a few days ago, but now losing a cadet is old news. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Doesn't mean she isn't angry, jaw sets. From here on out, she'll be tabbing into any messages he sends and out again without reading them. Maybe later she'll go back and do the appropriate following up - too much of a risk to just let him talk without at least reading what he's sending -, but right now?
She's not in the mood.]
Doesn't mean she isn't angry, jaw sets. From here on out, she'll be tabbing into any messages he sends and out again without reading them. Maybe later she'll go back and do the appropriate following up - too much of a risk to just let him talk without at least reading what he's sending -, but right now?
She's not in the mood.]
[ Jasper looks worried as he glances from the commander to his wrapped hands, then to the small table beside his bed. There's a juicebox sitting there, knocked over but unopened. ]
I can't get the straw in.
I can't get the straw in.
[There is a long, pregnant pause of silence - filled by the low beeps and whirr of medical's machinery, a cough from someone in another bed - as Shepard follows his eyes to the juicebox. She fixes it with a flat stare and then her hand moves out, takes it off the small table.
She balances it on her knee with one hand, peels the straw out of its wrapper with the other, and pierces the foil seal with a no-nonsense flick of the wrist before holding it out to Jasper so he can (hopefully) clumsily clutch it between his football shaped bandaged hands.
Okay. Sure.]
She balances it on her knee with one hand, peels the straw out of its wrapper with the other, and pierces the foil seal with a no-nonsense flick of the wrist before holding it out to Jasper so he can (hopefully) clumsily clutch it between his football shaped bandaged hands.
Okay. Sure.]
[ The long silence that follows is just enough to make him think... maybe juicebox emergencies aren't the kind of thing he should be calling Shepard in for. Maybe somebody already in medical could've taken care of that. But it made sense in his head at the time; in trouble, call Shepard. Everything he told her about the spacecat hunt, the burns, and his sleep deprivation... it had all been nothing but him being side-tracked from accomplishing this goal. ]
Thanks.
[ He sits up again and takes it, clumsily indeed, balancing it more between his wrists than his hands. Finally, apple juice. He woke up so thirsty. ]
Thanks.
[ He sits up again and takes it, clumsily indeed, balancing it more between his wrists than his hands. Finally, apple juice. He woke up so thirsty. ]
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
OK, you have a point.
[She's still not totally confident in her ability to teach people anything, though. But... there's only one way to find out and all.]
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Sounds good. Well... You throwing me around doesn't sound GOOD, but you know what I mean.
OK, you have a point.
[She's still not totally confident in her ability to teach people anything, though. But... there's only one way to find out and all.]
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Sounds good. Well... You throwing me around doesn't sound GOOD, but you know what I mean.
FROM: kaburagi.kotetsu@cdc.org
yo. kaburagi here.
status?
FROM: kaburagi.kotetsu@cdc.org
nearing a water channel but we're probably gonna camp out for the night and cross it tomorrow.
FROM: kaburagi.kotetsu@cdc.org
you guys didnt run into too much trouble?
FROM: kaburagi.kotetsu@cdc.org
no kidding. a boat would have been nice when they dropped us in the ocean but i know this mission is supposed to be tougher than ajna ever was.
FROM: kaburagi.kotetsu@cdc.org
its the same on our end. we woke up some giant slug thing but no ones dead yet either. gonna keep it that way especially since we're nearing the RV.
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