Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

[morganknight]

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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[morganknight]

"A body's no good if the mind isn't up to it," he said, tapping his temple with a finger. "And you're not a weapon. You're a person. Your potential, lethan and non-, is greater than that."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I got you," Mindy said. "Though its hard to not think of yourself as a weapon when you find out why you're on the ship in the first place. I was supposed to be going to school until this happened. It would definitely have helped with the whole adjusting to civilian life, getting a hobby thing."

[morganknight]

"I don't think any of us can say why we're on the ship. Why we're awake on the ship. Sure, we have a goal, but there are any number of paths to that goal, and we'd be crazy not to explore every one we can."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Some people can say they can't say, but come on. I know damn well why I'm here. Stacy is not big momma of the world, she wants to protect the worlds, and she needs strong people to do it. You'd have to be brain dead not to know. Can you say you think Stacy didn't choose you for this?"

[morganknight]

"You got a specific letter describing the reasons?" he said, lifting an eyebrow as he smiled.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"No, but it doesn't take a rock scientist to figure it out. I kick ass. I'm good at it. Why the hell else would Stacy have brought me here? I'm not saying that I'm not good at other stuff, and that I might eventually find out those things, but I know why I'm here, ok? I doubt Stacy brought me here because of my char and good looks."

[morganknight]

"It may seem obvious, but I'm not going to assume I understand the thought processed of a schizophrenic AI programmed by alien intelligences," he said wryly. "You know what they say about assuming."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"See if you only did that, you'd be ahead of the game, like me," Mindy said, but was laughing. Ok, so maybe he had a point, and bemoaning why she was on the ship was stupid. "But I'll give your idea a try. It's not like I'm a master expert at knowing what I can and can't do when it comes to new things."

[morganknight]

"There are very, very few skills you can't pick up with effort and patience," he said, "but some will be easier than others. The point is to study, learn, and internalize, to grow as a person; the journey's the key, not the destination."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

More things she really should have figured out on her own: but even she knew she could miss something like that when she was too busy being Hit Girl.

"That's true for anything really," Mindy said, "But I can see how I sometimes lose that when I get really involved in what I'm doing. So maybe I should just concentrate on what I can do now, like the cafe, as Mindy for a bit. I just get anxious when I'm doing nothing important to the mission, you know?"

[morganknight]

"That's why you need to take a broader view. In the long run, at least if you're doing it right, everything serves."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"That's true," Mindy said, shaking her head free of any access water. "I do plan to use everything about this life to make way for the next one. And there are...people that just make everything worth the work I put into it."