@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Thank you to Yalena for getting us sorted. [Sort of sorted. Sort of.] Now that we've arrived in New Tokyo and we're stuck inside for a little while, I think we should talk about some new changes that we're facing. I can't be the only one.

But first: a good number of us are here unwillingly, but we have to wait until we're fully prepped before we can go anywhere. Heading outside in these temperatures while unprepared could cost you your life. We all hate being trapped somewhere. I think that's pretty well-established. We also hate having to do anything or be anywhere when we didn't ask for that to happen. At least it doesn't seem like we were drugged, though it wouldn't hurt for Katelin and I to take some blood samples to confirm that. We'll have to store them until we get back.

As for the changes in your lives: have you noticed any? For instance, apparently I'm a lab tech at Giles Bell. I tried to set myself up for a new internship there that I could get easily, but I got ... elevated. Or hired beyond that? I'm not sure what the right terminology is here. Has anyone else noticed this? Or had it happen to them? I got permissions to take leaves from both of my jobs. And no, I'm really not prepared to work as a lab tech. I don't even know the first thing about setting up gels.

As a bit of a personal request ... does anyone think we can make pancakes in the small kitchen here? I have a craving for them. I've not really had cakes of the "pancake" variety before, but I want them now. And if you think we can, can you make them?

[This last bit is Loki's fault.]

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[cheffeur]

[HE'S TRYING SO HARD OK PROMPTO not all of us can be friendship ambassadors....!!!]

In the dormitory room I was assigned. I haven't quite ventured to examine the kitchen yet.

I presume you're coming over?

[mercurio]

can i just meet you in the kitchen?

[retravel]

That we will, Prompto.
See you in the snow.

[cheffeur]

Of course. I'll head over there now, if you'd like.

[mercurio]

oh right, i did do that

[LMAO LISTEN,,]

i guess those sound easy enough
but you're not going to just make them "easy enough" are you?

[mercurio]

see you in a bit

[daemonized]

:)

[revvedup]

i have an idea of what should be in there already, but yeah, let me know.

[ if only because she wants to know if they drugged her. ]

you said you were taking them here? where are you gonna get the supplies?

[mercurio]

better than an upside down smile, i guess

[hope to NOT see you around]

[strove]

I'll ask PRESERVE. Hopefully someone among them will have what we need.

I guess I just assumed they would.

[strove]

[Lexa's reluctance to return to her people tells Clarke everything she needs to know about the timing. Perhaps her lack of comfort was in knowing what would come next. Perhaps it's because she knew, though it's hard for Clarke to guess. To say. Not without asking and trying to guess who may have told her.]

No, her people weren't free, and as their leader, she couldn't be, as well. In my world, leaders are expected to carry all the burdens of their people, even when they try to do otherwise. She was raised and expected to slot into that role. You're right in that she was no queen. She rose to her role despite that expectation. Won it, actually. And her people were a warring people. I'm not sure if it's the same with the dragon queens you spoke of, but it was with her. She knew the significance of leading her people into battle. Of being on the front lines.

It's not surprising that you'd find us similar. I guess. [He can't see it, but she smiles at this.]

I'm a leader of my people, too. ["A" rather than "the." A significant distinction.]

It might be strange, but thank you for telling me about this. I didn't expect ... I never expected it.

Then again, I guess most people don't expect someone to come from another world, meet your friend, and then meet you in a different one. This is a first for me. Well, first hand, anyway. Like I said, I'd seen it happen with others.

[strove]

Are you typically concerned with stealth when you're eating a dessert?

[strove]

I refuse to be the one to perform the amputation, and I may be the only one on this trip who can perform surgeries.

[strove]

This is actually my second go at it.

It's ... believe it or not, far safer this time?

[Read: less unexpected territorial disputes.]

Which is something, considering the whole dream experience, monsters, and the rest of it.

[strove]

[Curious.]

Why aren't you in need of them?

[mercurio]

don't worry about that
just get me a sharp kitchen knife and some towels

chop chop easy

[strove]

I think the worrying thing is that this isn't even that dark of a conversation turn for me.

[strove]

[She's curious about that. Clarke debates what to say next, and decides to pose a question:]

Why would someone give us that power? Whether or not we're significant or meant to be important in this world is still up for debate. I don't believe it.

But someone wanted us to be that strong.

Right?

[strove]

I wonder why they're not concerned, but the world is fairly large. I've seen it done before with a much, much smaller population. It was successful there, but that's because there weren't a lot of options to the contrary left to the people. They could control where people lived and start shuffling them around, forcing them out into the open. I can't see that as a viable strategy here. And that's with all the surveillance.

Do they still have Morningstar agents captured? I know we managed to save most of them, but not all.

[strove]

I'm looking forward to it.

[strove]

We had food!

It was just limited to what you could manage with a hydroponic system on a ship where you had limited resources and sunlight. Though some friends of mine managed to grow marijuana? I guess they figured that out for medical reasons. [Only then teenagers were teenagers about it.] Otherwise, it wasn't that varied. It was mostly pretty tasteless.

[mercurio]

then if this isn't so bad
let boys be boys and we'll figure out the frostbitten gen conundrum

[strove]

I wasn't aware that Asgard was full of snow.

Though I guess I also never asked.

[strove]

Trigger. What does that mean?

I know what it means conceptually, for the record. I'm trying to figure out how you felt. If it seemed like something changed and you noticed it.

[kleptocratic]

That's about how it went the last time. 👋