tucky | ♻ 012

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I been thinking. I thought it was cool how the Enclosure got programmed the way it did for Bucky's party, so I was wondering if I could do that, too-- not for a party, but for a fireworks show. I don't know if any of the people here have ever been to one, but where I come from, they're real popular in the summer. You go to a big empty field at night, sit on blankets, and just... watch. Maybe bring out a keg of beer or something, I don't know. You think the Enclosure could do that?

I wanted to do it on my birthday, if things are all calmed down. Sometimes these shows can get crazy and loud with people dancing and partying, but I know I ain't in a raucous mood, and I bet I'm not the only one. So maybe a quiet one would be good right now. Something relaxing.

It'd be nice, I think.

[filtered to Dillon, Iris, Letty, Mason, Morgana, and Simon]

Merlin's better. He-- it's real complicated, but he didn't mean that stuff he said. I know that nothing was making him say it, but he had those parasites in him that had him thinking it was the best thing to do, and... he regrets it. He changed his mind.

[She sounds relieved, if just a tiny bit wary. She wasn't affected by the Sha herself, and she still isn't 100% clear on what exactly it was or how it worked-- so while she's ever-trusting and wants to give her warden the benefit of the doubt, it's going to take her a week or so of him being normal for her to fully believe that he really is staying, and he really does want her as his inmate.]

I ain't mad at him. Y'all don't have to be either.

[Mason and Simon, she's looking at you.]

[filtered to Crowley]

Hi.

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How long are we talking? A few words, a few sentences, a few pages?

Paragraphs sometimes, word for word.

... Small paragraphs or big paragraphs?

Four or five sentences.

... That's a lot.

It would've helped a lot in high school if I ever read any of the books.

You didn't like school much either?

No, I didn't have the patience for it. I never could 'apply myself' as they say.

Me either. How long'd you stay? You graduate?

[From high school, she means; she tends to assume that the people who remind her of herself didn't go to college.]

I did, by the skin of my teeth. That was it for any kinda formal education.

I dropped out. Wasn't getting much from it, I felt.

[Granted, doing a lot of drugs was a heavy contributor to that.]

You ever wish you hadn't?

Not really. I barely think about it at all.

I ended up regrettin' not havin' worked very hard at tryin' to do well. Things might've been a lot different if I had.

Like how? You would've gone to college or something?

If I'd had the grades for it, maybe I could've gotten a scholarship, but that was a pretty big if. My little brother, he was some kinda football player, good enough to be a pro someday, but he didn't have the grades for a scholarship either, so he ended up just workin' in the mines like everybody else, gettin' bitter and beatin' up his wife.

Mines?

Did you do that?

[He eyed her for a second and smiled.] Well, you are gettin' drunk, ain't you? [Seeing as how he'd told her about that, plus his fears.]

Yeah, a bit. Ain't you gonna answer my question?

[Okay, he'll do that again.]

Yeah, I worked down in the mines for a couple of years after high school, then again about two years ago for a little bit.

That why you're scared of being crushed?

[See, she remembers!]

[A little bit of a lineface on his end.]

Right, yeah.

... Shouldn't've asked that, right?

It ain't somethin' I particularly enjoy conversin' about, no.

Whoops.

I don't got a big filter when I'm drunk. Ish. Drunkish.

[She doesn't have a big filter, period.]

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