Aradia: s0llux!
Sollux: hey AA.
Aradia: y0ure finally awake!
Sollux: ye2. ii’m practiically jumpiing for joy over the fact. iif you lii2ten carefully maybe you can even hear my rapturou2 ec2tatiic 2hriieking rattliing the aiirlock2.
Aradia: 0h cheer up s0llux! this is the first time in a while weve b0th been untethered at the same time
Aradia: arent y0u excited?
Sollux: 2ure, but–
Aradia: n0 buts!
Sollux: two but2.
Aradia: three buts
Sollux: oh god AA help! ii’m 2uddenly drowniing iin an ocean of exponentiially multiiplyiing a22e2, who wiill delete my 2earch hii2tory once ii diie?
Aradia: see i knew y0u were excited :)
Sollux: diid you get an ETA yet? they wanted me two focu2 on replenii2hiing the auxiiliiary power bank2 after the jump and wouldn’t giive me deet2 2o ii wa2n’t ‘dii2tracted’, whiich ii2 2tupiid and make2 zero 2en2e becau2e rediirectiing power ii2 2o ea2y even a wiiggler wiith iit2 claw up iit2 own a22 could do iit. Sollux: fucker2 even diivorced me from the maiin cabiin 2o ii couldn’t 2noop viia the audiio or theiir log2.
Aradia: eta r0ughly 48 h0urs
Aradia: and speaking 0f
Aradia if y0u were tasked with charging the banks then y0u sh0uld be recharging y0urself t00 mister
Aradia: thats pr0bably why y0u g0t unh00ked s0 early especially if they plan 0n making y0u d0 the next hyperspace jump 0nce we finish transferring
Sollux: engh.
Aradia: theyre g0ing t0 tube y0u again if you d0nt
Aradia: y0u kn0w that s0llux
Sollux: ii don’t care.
Aradia: will y0u st0p being s0 stubb0rn f0r 0nce and just j0in me at breakfast!!!
Sollux: ii already have food here.
It's stiff as a board and rock solid. Normally you don't care if food has sat out for a while but you'd chip a tooth if you tried eating this.
Ugh. It's completely flat and you think you felt a chunk of something hit your tongue.
You aren’t doing that. Besides, half of this crap is Aradia’s mess anyways. You'd let the cleaning drones in to do it for you but last time you let that happen they cleaned so thoroughly that neither of you could find any of your stuff until it was thrown all over the place again.
The photos on the wall above your dresser are target practice for your shuriken, which you legally aren't allowed to own anymore but snuck onto the ship anyways. The pictures are of certain crew members on board that you don’t care much for.
This bitch in particular gets the brunt of your ire and not just because of her obnoxious costumes or shitty haircut or hilariously oversized mug. She's been a pain in the chute ever since you were commissioned to this vessel so you are burdened with the Herculean task of returning the favor and being a pain in her ventral fin as much as physically possible. And your favorite way to spite her is taking bad photos of her, specifically because of the way she flips her shit right off the diving board when you leave the photos lying around for other crew members to find.
The photos on and above your desk, however, are of you and Aradia.
She gave you this ancient polaroid camera because she thinks it’s good for you to have hobbies outside the helm that don’t involve staring at screens. You aren’t entirely sure what you’re supposed to be taking pictures of but if it keeps her off your case then you'll use it.
Aradia: s0llux? hell0?
Sollux: 2orry AA, got dii2ttacted. ii’ll be there iin a few miinute2.
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What will you do now? >pocket shuriken >message Karkat >stop screwing around and go meet Aradia >something else?
