#t.aisling

[aurelia--ferris]

oxford comma | teilo & elly

[Look. She usually keeps to herself, both in terms of activities and opinions. Socially, psychologically, habitually... a wallflower. She’s definitely not being invited to anyone’s team building exercises in the near future, she thinks. But when some lowlife, some utter degenerate deigns to unload a dozen books onto a library table one over from hers, then leafs through a grand total of two (2) of them, and then stands and leaves---just leaves, just like that---something visceral kicks in and Elly snaps and speaks up, unprompted.] Hey, dickwad, come put away your---

[He glances at her for only second before slipping out the door, completely ignoring her. She glares at the doorway he fled out of like a coward, and then mutters as she begins to collect the volumes herself to put back on the shelf.] Sure, why the fuck not... Not like I have something better to do than clean up after you. 

[She pauses, because it occurs to her that maybe she doesn’t, not really, and she’s starting to have a very stressful flashback to getting fired for a ‘bad attitude’ from the library she’d worked at when she was nineteen. If only they could see her now... still tremendously off-putting to complete strangers... makin’ enemies like it’s going out of style...]

@teiloembry​

[mouse--quinley]

who's someone you wish you could get closer to in the colony?

Hmm… prob’ly Teilo? I don’t think we got that much in common, but he clearly spent a long time readin’ ‘bout things I never did, and I’d like to learn more about that. Like, I never thought to pick up anythin’ to do with laws and stuff, human rights, ‘cause it didn’t seem like it mattered for someone like me. Now I wish I knew more about how people decided all those things—built systems that actually fuckin’ worked, to protect people. All I know’s is like, flour’s explosive, don’t eat mushrooms unless you’re totally sure what they are—an’ both those I learned from Trig, so I really just wanna stick him an’ Teilo in a room with a list of problems we need solved, an’ see what they come up with. Anaya an’ Costin, too, for basically the same reason. I really want to talk to anyone who knows stuff I don’t have the first clue about, ‘cause that’s how I learn best.

@teiloembry, @anayadolmen, @cvnstantin

[mouse--quinley]

[Mouse stops, frozen by a sudden thought. He’s quiet for a long moment, motionless and contemplative.]

What if it’s not just humans got Infected? Anyone thought ‘bout that?