1st Dusting

[makeitquick]

[Voice]

[This voiced bit is made after this hapadash intro here. Getting to be around sunset now]

So, is this Slayer part two here, show up in some "other world?" Gotta say, this is totally toy if it is.

But hey, girl's gotta do, right? So any lurks out there, here I am. Come find me, I dare you.

[To be honest, she's not sure if she believes this is the case or not. She's just restless - to be out of Versi, to not be near Gates or Erin or her new flat with all the heritage she was just beginning to discover. To assume - or perhaps more accurately, pretend - that showing up in this weird wing-world is an extension of that whole deal.

If anyone wants an action portion instead, she's wishing she had her scythe or blaster hanging out around central plaza, on one of the shop roofs, watching people. At least she has on her own set of clothes by now]

Comments

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Literary reference. Dystopian society where they got so overpopulated, the world basically went under and one way the government decided to solve the food problem was to make rations out of people.

[makeitquick]

...Maybe that's what they eat in the Uppers. Who knows.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

...honestly wouldn't want to find out.

'Uppers'...so what does that make you, then?

[He's just trying to get a feel for the world, feel free to tell him to stfu]

[makeitquick]

Proud citizen of the Versi warren.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

And a warren is...?

[...something a rabbit lives in. And way too close to 'nest' for Derek's liking.]

[makeitquick]

You know. A warren.

[A beat] the bottom floor? ...It's home.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

So you're above ground at any rate.

[Good.]

How high do your...homes....go?

[makeitquick]

'Course we are. But... in the warren, maybe five, six stories up? The gate to the Uppers is further than that, 'course, but what we live in depends.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

So...five stories, then...empty space...and then above that those people fortunate enough to have money or whatever grants power and comfort in your world. Right?

[makeitquick]

Replace "empty space" with "all the warehouses, defunct old buildings, and all the car lanes you can ock" and that's about right.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Got it.

Doesn't sound like there's much green going on.

[makeitquick]

'Fraid not, really.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

What happened? Or do they tell you that?

[makeitquick]

Haddyn's a city district. Green's not a priority in our parts.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Hmn. So what year are you?

[makeitquick]

[Hah]

2232.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

2002 here.

[makeitquick]

Oh, Jesu, you're ancient.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

[That earns a laugh.]

Yeah, I guess so. Good thing I don't look it.

[makeitquick]

...Sorry.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

'Sorry' for what? It was actually pretty funny.

[makeitquick]

[...Oh, good]

Whatever you say, Kennedy.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Now you lost me.

I'm in my late 30's. People get dragged here from all sorts of different times. So we might have a couple of centuries between our time frames, but hopefully I've only got a few decades on you in actual age.

...Although Luceti does seem to drag in a lot of kids.

[makeitquick]

...Wasn't he one of the Old 'Merican senator-things?

[A beat] ...Nineteen here.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Kennedy? Yeah. He and a couple of his brothers. Then he ran for president and got assassinated during his term in office.

[...yeah, okay. *sigh*

Dammit, Luceti. Quit dragging the young ones into this mess.]