infomodder | IC contact [Mask or Menace]

Also... thanks.

For saying all that about me, I mean. I'm not really used to people... having faith in my abilities, as a general rule. So... it means a lot to me, to hear that someone like you thinks I'm competent. ... Thanks.

I don't forget anything. Opposite of a fish in that way. Someone like me? A profiler? Free personality test courtesy an expert, so you know it's accurate?

No, dumbass. Someone like you, as in, a competent adult who works for the FBI and stuff. Geez.

[Part of him wishes he had a hat to adjust, give him something tangible to fiddle with. The dog, dumb in some ways it may be, recognizes it and moves in closer, just enough that Will can get a moment's eat scratch it before he cuts down a path that leads away from lights, from TV, from society.]

Be glad you don't. [Will gets it. He doesn't like it, by God he does not like it.] So you wanna say what happened? What got them up your ass about it?

Some idiot tried to attack me the other night, so I was gonna stop him.

[Permanently. But putting a knife in him, but she figures Will can make the connections there. She's hoping he isn't going to be all weird about it, so she doesn't mind telling him.]

Guess that makes me a monster.

[And she isn't going to argue that she isn't a bad person, but that of all things is fairly low down on the list.]

[...what.]

Thanks to you too.

Welcome!

Yes. With the locals... and with the military. Holiday's the easier contact, but Ananke might work for now. My hands are tied when it comes to how much I need to seem like they're my first priority.

[ It's one way of saying her hands are much more tied in how much she can say or do. The government has a particular consideration of Annie and her comrades, and they put themselves in that position. They have to be good... but they have to seem like when they aren't following protocol, it's not out of any ill intent.

That it's not easy to misread, and that they at least make an attempt to do as they must as proper, cooperative citizens. ]

It might be best on the civilian side of things to have a more authoritative presence helping with the information delivery. I'm, ah... too young to be taken as seriously as I should be. Even on things like this.

Young girls have big imaginations, I've been told. They don't understand what's going on. And they shouldn't play with complex toys.

[He can get plenty of connections from there, vivid, real connections that turn to mental images in his head. For someone who's got the picture of Kara beating a schmuck to death, complete with a sort of flip book involving possible weaponry, he doesn't seem to have it going on when he looks at her. There's no judgment, no sizing her up, there's something much different: he relates. Not to the same extent, of course, but with certain experiences and that empathetic sponge of his...difficult not to.]

Monster's lost a good bit of meaning, too. [Less textbook this time.] But it's different when it comes from someone you think you know. Or knows you better.

[Ah, ah, that's the ticket, that's the part he relates to the most. The part that has something like a smile out of him when he stops to push aside a particularly thick, heavy, thorny bush to not just let her pass, but let her see. A small clearing in the midst of forest that only gets denser the further out they go, complete with one boulder. One boulder and some smaller rocks around it, nothing but the night sky above, and not a single city light in sight once she gets in a few steps.

It's quiet.]

did you name anything new after me last month

yeah got stopped by some religious folks rosary in my room is named april

the one you used to drive them out
right

of course i hung it right side up walked out of the room came back in it was flipped upside down and the room smelled like salt when i put it back in place the walls bled de chima has never been safer

i can't believe you went back
but at least it's possessed now
i guess

[...did he screw this up.]

Did you want me to stay?

i dunno
why did you go?

because i moved here i'm from virginia back home you know that why else?

your house got blown up
isn't that like
a sign

people rebuild after natural disasters all the time we had a furry bloody toothy clawed tornado hurricane whatever they are animals sometimes what's more natural of a natural disaster than that?

staying where things aren't on fire
that's an idea

well then why are you in florida it's always on fire

[There is a joke about handling heat here.

He's not making it.]

wrong
was it terry
he doesn't mean to be your darkest nightmare
it's just his charm

1) i moved out of heropa with bader, we moved together 2) terry is not a problem i promise 3) i know this sounds crazy but there was something not quite right with that room. haunted.

that was a perk

did you do that on purpose there is a pack of slugs on the back of the house they are now all named april too

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shout out to cole 5eva

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