[3] - [Voice]

[sharpememory]

It's normally not my thing to tell people when they're making a mistake. Especially not cops and competition. [Takes a breath.]

There's a whole bunch of people coming on board. People don't come from nowhere. It's pretty clear that we've landed at a port and our friend the Admiral is yet to announce it.

So why aren't any of you taking advantage? Especially the new people? Don't you guys want out before we move on? Doesn't anyone want to tell the cops about this hellhole?

[Dramatic sigh.] Some of us aren't satisfied sitting around and waiting for a rescue.

Comments

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

Get used to it.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

So you're a waiter then. Do you like how things are?

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

No.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

So, what? Have you even tried to escape?

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

Try for yourself and you'll see...

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

Why don't you?

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. What are you doing? [He's hoping that other people sniffing around for a way off the barge will hide his own attempts.]

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Hey, just because you failed doesn't mean that I will.

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

Have at it, then. You'll serve as a fleeting source of mild amusement, if nothing else.

More to the point, I've yet to find a port of call I would take a liking to.

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

Having tea. But go ahead, I wouldn't dream of holding you back.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Sure, sure. I'm sure I'll be really amusing when I'm gone as well.

Yeah? The Admiral always put you down in crappy places, does he?

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Tea, huh? That sounds so exciting compared to potential freedom.

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

If not already, they soon have a habit of becoming so.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Maybe we're at a good one now. Guess you'll never know though.

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

I'm not a prisoner. [Not of the Admiral's anyway.]

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

You're a warden, then?

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

Have you even bothered looking over the side?

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I'm not dumb enough to think that what I see is necessarily what's there.

[bigbad]

You're very good at ignoring the obvious in favor of your own comfortable point of view. You'd fit in great in Sunnydale!

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

You're looking at it the wrong way. You're good at accepting the obvious instead of questioning your own comfortable point of view. Think a little harder, man.

And fine, I'll bite. What's Sunnydale?

[bigbad]

Nothing comfortable about my point of view. And I question it all the time.

Town I lived in for a while. A lot of people died from mysterious neck wounds and the cops never caught on to what was causing them.

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

If you believe that to be sufficient reason for me to stop you escaping, then you would be wrong. Or are attempting to deflect the conversation so I wouldn't notice that here you remain despite your wish to flee?

[veni-vidi-valui.livejournal.com]

Yet, you are sufficiently lacking in intelligence to assume the rest of us will leap at the opportunity to prove your guess correct?

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

I'd say this was the dumbest thing I'd heard today but honestly, today's not over and I may yet be surprised.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

So you don't think we're at a port? The new people just teleport in, do they? That seems really likely.