outer_divide | 004 ⌥ AUDIO & TEXT

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004 ⌥ AUDIO & TEXT

...If that fog ever comes back, just do me a favor and shoot me first.

[And that's all she has to say there.

But a few people will be receiving text portions locked individually to them, most of them reading the exact same:]

BCC: Telford, Kirk, Thrace, Hunt, Vegeta, Hart, Rhade
MESSAGE: If you've got time, I'd like to have a word with you in person.

TO: Claire
MESSAGE: Training sometime in the next 48 hours. When's good for you?

TO: Fox
MESSAGES: Still alive over there?

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[He knocks anyway, inside the door to the diner, announcing his presence. And quickly finds her in the kitchen.]

Need a hand with that?

[While he's here, he might as well offer.]

[She shakes her head.] It's not that important. [Shepard stands up now, brushing the dirt and whatever else off her hands.]

I actually wanted to talk to you about the meeting.

[Yep, Kirk's one of the people she trusts to be 'in the loop', not that she's going to come out and say it.]

More specifically, any thoughts you had. Ideas, agreements, objections, suspicions...

I know a lot of people held their tongues at the meeting. Weren't sure who to trust. So I figured I'd talk to you one-on-one.

[Jim nods, grateful they can skate over the displays of the last week.]

It's understandable. But also a fact that if someone us don't start trusting others, we won't be able to accomplish anything. [He sighs.] Basically, I'm inclined to give people here the benefit of the doubt. There's no one I've met here so far--no one from the ship, I mean--who I'd suspect of not wanting to get out of here like anybody else. With that in mind, it'll be hard to pool the resources of so many disparate parties. But we're going to have to get organized, or we risk holes, as well as overlap of effort. My personal opinion? Groups be formed to take on specific tasks. Broken down by what people are good at and led by people who can coordinate the efforts. Having a group for food procurement, investigation into the ship, the domes and the Authority, outreach for the city dwellers. Aid for those who need it. We're all in this together, is my view. And we're stronger than apart.

[Ohhhh yes, there will definitely be skating going on. She has plenty of stuff she's not proud of, either, so if he doesn't bring it up, she most definitely won't.

She listens to his opinions, taking them in, thinking already on how to integrate them with her own. Which isn't so hard--she was having a lot of the same thoughts, herself.

But first:]

I've got some pretty solid reasons to believe that at least one person at the meeting is reporting in some way back to the Authorities. I don't know who, or necessarily even any kind of motive. I know a few people it's not--you're one of them. That's why I got in touch.

[A pause, and she shakes her head.]

Before we can solidify any sort of plans, I need to figure out who that is. Otherwise, every move we make will go right back to the enemy, and then nobody's safe.

[She has an idea on how to handle this, but she's not going to say it. Not yet, anyway. She wants to hear what he thinks, first.]

[Jim nods. It's not an unlikely scenario. But he doesn't have any actual evidence, and he's curious about what she knows.]

In that case, I have a question for you. How do you know it's not me? How have you narrowed it down? It's possible someone got to one of us after we woke up, played on some motive, offered something. But it's hard to believe anyone brought here against their will would turn without reason. [He rubs his chin.] Not to immediately doubt anyone who was here before, but I suppose knowing for certain whose names are on those pods in the ship might be a start.

Call it intuition. Or call it 'too many years in command'--I may not know for sure who we can't trust, but I've got a pretty keen eye for some of the people we can.

[As for the second part, she shakes her head a little.]

That's sound in theory, but impractical. There are too many pods to march in and take names.

[Jim nods. He knows the feeling well--it's not something you can easily describe, and while he's not perfect, he has a pretty good track record. And she's right. It will take too long to narrow things down that way.]

We won't get anywhere if we just keep meeting individually, however. At some point, we'll need a way to root whoever it is out.

I've got a plan. It won't root them out entirely, but it'll sure as hell narrow down the potentials.

I'll lay it out for you once I've firmed up some of the details.

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action; oh god sorry for the delay