trans_9 | Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

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Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

Morgan was restless.

When restless, he tended to roam the ship, checking on things he knew of, or seeking out places he didn't out of curiosity. Today was a little of both. After the pitched battle in Hydroponics, he felt a particular obligation towards one plant in particular: the apple tree he'd helped Applejack grow from a seed. For all that he'd done his best to contain Hydroponic in the fight, he hadn't been able to do anything specific to protect that plant.

Done there, he headed back down in the City, off to one particular place that had caught his interest when he had heard about it: an 'air temple'. Not on the map, not listed in the directory, or he'd have wandered over just to take a look a long time ago. Now that he'd heard about it, well...

Time to investigate.

[OOC: Just say where you find him; it can be pretty much anywhere, since his trip covers a lot of ground across the ship.]

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"Not even necessarily then. Some people study static magic all their lives and never make the leap to true Awakening." Not that static magic was useless or even inferior, just different.

That certainly sobered her up a bit. The idea that she might try this and it would never happen? But Mindy immediately tossed the idea out of her head. She was a McCready damn it, and she would find a way!

Besides, that she had already gotten as good as she was now was proof plenty that she had what it took to try and find out.

"Ok Morgan, when's our next session? You know, when you feel better and shit."

He honestly didn't foresee it happening. She thought it was about strength and power, obviously, when in fact it was all about belief.

"Oh, I'm feeling fine now, physically anyway. I'm just trying to get my head back in the game. There was a repodding I'm down about. Hell, I was out here roaming just trying to distract myself... training would be a good way to do that too."

Belief she had no problem with. It was more her actually finding the time to actually gather those thoughts together and be fine with herself. Strength and power was just her usual go to solutions.

"Repodding?" Yeah, she knew a little about some repodding all right. Between the robots and finding herself tending to an abandoned cafe, she had her own shit in her head to ponder. "Who was it?"

"A girl I was interested in. Kind of trivial in the grand scheme of things, but it's hard to share someone's body and headspace for several days and then not miss them when they were gone. She isn't dead, though, so that's a nice change of affairs."

He hadn't meant the statement in relation to SHODAN's actions in the pods, didn't realize it might be insensitive.

"Aw man, really? How did I miss you finally liking some girl? At least you could mention her name or something! I even had some really good friends of mine that were podded. Who was she?"

Oh. Yeah, that. "That's...fortunate." She kept her eyes steady, trying not waver, and covered up anything he might have seen by submerging herself a moment.

He watched her drop out of sight, intuition nagging him for a moment, then winced. "You lost someone, didn't you," he said, thunking his forehead with the heel of his hand. "I'm sorry. I'm an idiot."

When she surfaced, her eyes were red, but this was more likely to be from the water itself, no doubt done intentionally.

"It's not like you would have known," she said. "Actually, its not like anyone really would unless I told them. When that bitch Shodan attacked him, she used my name while I was dressed as Hit Girl. Only you, Zetta and Ruffnut know that she killed dad, and I plan to keep it that way."

Yes, she'd say it flat out: it sort of took some of the impact away.

"I'm still sorry," he said, bowing his head. "Have you... said goodbye, formally? In whatever way you'd have. I can only begin to guess."

"I said goodbye to him before," Mindy said quietly. "And honestly, that's the way I want to remember it. The last thing my father was doing before I died was leading me to take out the enemy we chose to take on together. This time, some phantom alien fucker got to him even though I was gunning it to get to him, to save him. If I have to accept that he died that way, I would lose something I can't get back. So this way, things don't change: he's still dead and I'm still with the family I made on this ship. The only thing that screwed with that was the ship making him alive in the first place. It had no business to do that."

And she meant every word, because the swear words came less. She loved her father, but she made her peace with him, what right did Stacy have to bring him back just so he was taken away again?

"If that's enough for you. Goodbyes like that are for the living, after all, not the dead."

He had made goodbyes... and refused to make them. Both served their purpose. Morgan wanted to comfort Mindy, but he didn't expect she'd appreciate it. She'd probably take it as a shot at her age, even though it wasn't.

"It has to be enough. I made my life on this ship, with people that were never in my world, Morgan. There's no going back just because I want to be baby doll again. That girl was left with him when he went away. And like, Stacy comes along and..."

She shook her head. "You're at least right about that. I can't say goodbye to him again. Honestly, I didn't know how to feel after that shit. I actually stayed away from the one person who would have made it better because I didn't know what to do with myself."

"Death is a goddamn bitch to accept, sometimes," he sighed. "I don't envy you. I can only imagine how bad it would be to have someone who ought to be dead, and stay dead, show up alive just long enough to get killed. All experience has taught me is that the only real balm is time."

"It wasn't fun," she said, "and it definitely wasn't great when you it happens to you and other people and you can't do a damn thing about it. By the end I just decided to blow up as many of her fucking robots as possible, and luckily fr em I ha the Overlord helping by then. At least when I finally got home, there was somebody awesome waiting for me."

"I went down a path like that once," he said, thoughtfully. "It was a long time ago, getting revenge..."

"For twelve years of my life, I ate, breathed, slept and shat revenge. Revenge was one of the emotions that kept me going, first when I found out about mom, and then when I lost dad. I know as a mage you know better now, but for me it was one of those emotions that drew me in, that leveled me. Once that was over though, I didn't really know what to do with myself, where to go. It's the drawback to revenge: after its over, if you're still alive, you need a new place to start."

Morgan couldn't help but smile, wry and regretful though it was. "Trust me, being a mage doesn't make you a better or wiser person. Just the opposite, a lot of the time. I learned better because I grew as a person. Hell, the mistakes I made were long after I Awakened."

"Then maybe I just need to grow as a person." Mindy did not say this without a tone of amusement. "But then, now that I think about it, being stuck on this ship guarantees something is going to happen. Maybe I can find a way to believe here."

"...If I mention that my sister is a werewolf, are you gonna try to figure out how to become one of those too?" he said with a grin.

"That's just stupid," Mindy said, looking partially offended, but grinning. "Who the hell wants to be the reason teen girls are all jazzed up and dreamy eyed over lame shit?"

Granted, that was just one series but it was bad enough to ruin an entire franchise. "Besides, I'm actually serious about this."

Morgan missed that reference entirely. "What?" he said, lifting an eyebrow. "Uh, if teen girls are jazzed-up and dreamy-eyed about my sister, that would be realllllllly weird." Though he looked down at himself. "I mean, over me, sure, but obviously she's fraternal."

Mindy chuckled. "Sorry, just a reference to one of the weirdest damn cult books I've seen in awhile. trust me, if your sister read it, she probably wouldn't stop puking for a week. But that's still pretty cool, that she's a werewolf. How does that happen again."

"It's genetic... sort of. There's a spiritual component to it as well, but basically, if you're related to a werewolf, you're Kinfolk. If two Kinfolk, or a Kin and a werewolf, have a child, there's a small chance the child will also be Garou. In this case, my dad was the werewolf and my mom was the Kinfolk. That also means I'm kin, so if you know any really hot werewolf girls..." He grinned, teasing. Obviously she didn't, here or before.

Yeah, Mindy unfortunately didn't get out much, and she figured she was a horrible match maker as a result. In any case, it was still pretty interesting to learn about that part of Morgan. "Then you guys probably do look pretty different. I gotta say though, I'm real curious to learn about your world now, with all the stuff that goes on in it."

"We both got my mom's hair and skin tones. Otherwise she takes after my mom and I take after my dad." Or at least that's what pictures, and friends of the family, said.

"It's Earth," he said with a shrug. "There's just a whole lot behind the scenes, where most people never notice it."

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Damn, she was starting to get over this too...

Morgan can be self-centered.

She doesn't expect him to know:-P

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What the hell happened to my words in the last post?!

They wanted to go to space.

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