Reacting to that excursion announcement

[be_seeing_you]

Who: Number 6 & some closed, some open
What: He needs to talk to some people about that new sign-up sheet
When: November
Where: Various places
Warnings: General discussion of tortures that were done to him by the village


[Open]
He is at Friday's desk and he is scowling at that sign-up sheet so hard it looks like he's trying to develop laser vision so he can burn it through. That wording... "Hope to be seeing you!" He does not like that one bit. He's been here far too long to believe it could just be a coincidence. But now he has to sign up for it, doesn't he?


[Closed To Ava]
Later that evening, he is pacing their cabin, hands fidgeting at his sides so rapidly it's a shock he doesn't develop a cramp. He hasn't been this agitated in quite some time.

"I don't like that sign-up, Ava. I don't trust it."


[Closed to Ari]
A short text will come through to her the day after that sign-up sheet is posted:

Lieutenant,
There is something I need to speak to you about in private. Would you be willing to meet me in my cabin?
-P. Starr


[Closed to Erin]
A text will arrive for her the day after the sign up sheet is posted:

Have you seen the new excursion sheet? Has it been read to you yet?
-P. Starr


[Wildcard]
Hit me!

Comments

[astrogator]

'I do. I stand by my principles.' She understands what he means. It's easy to talk from the safety of a Company Tower about what people in danger ought to do, but she doesn't take advice on Tradeline actions from anyone but Tradeliners. This isn't so far different. She knows what she's capable of now. That she can stand against opposition - and against her own doubts. It isn't lost on Tayrey that the reason she has to step up her own patrols and call on her friends to support her with them during excursions is that the other military types tend to go on them. Someone less steadfast might have joined them out of worry for her own reputation.

Not Tayrey. Because Peter Smith is right, someone has to think first of those who stay behind. Even in good times you don't send all your leaders on expedition at once and leave your ship vulnerable - and this is the very opposite of a good time.

'I think I understand,' she says then, slowly. 'You want to know what they know, just as you know how much I saw - and what I didn't.' She frowns. 'If your privacy is breached, you want to know by how far, and I can understand that, but my concern is - how much can it still hurt you? If you're treated the way you were before? Will knowing it isn't the real place make it easier?'

[be_seeing_you]

"Yes," he answers solemnly. "I need to know." Not just that. If others go to that place, they will be as helpless as he was the first time. He could do something. He could help, somehow.

That leads nicely to her next question. "The Village may try its hardest to break me, but I will have something this time that I did not the last, I will have allies I can trust. I will not be alone. I think that is what will make it easier."