DECIDE DESTINATION

[keep_your_dignity]

[Late afternoon, Alhambra. After the downfall of the Avian Empire, the atmosphere is fairly relaxed, with the stopping of a genocidal alien invasion being a reason for pride for the whole of Unity Group. So the place is clearly not very tense...]

*ZOWNT* *BOOM*

[...aaaand suddenly there's a beam sound and an explosion, and a molten hole through multiple walls in a mostly empty area of the base. By the time security arrives, they find Kagura, who extends some stiff apologies - apparently one of her suit's in-built weapons has malfunctioned and shot itself when she was performing a checkup. Which is odd, Kagura being Kagura, but people generally know better than to try to get something out of Kagura that she doesn't want to share. She's been moving less around base lately, at least visibly, which probably means she's either doing something secret or she's got something on her mind or she's extra annoyed at something.

And now it's several hours later, and you run into Kagura's suit standing in that complete immobility that betrays the fairy inside is not bothering to control it right now. Kagura is thinking, and whatever she's thinking about is clearly important.]

[OOC note: Other authority figures, leaders, and generally dutiful characters that Kagura could reasonably bounce ideas off are especially welcome, here]

Comments

[keep_your_dignity]

DECIDING ABOUT POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THINGS ON MY OWN IS LITERALLY MY BLOODY JOB, ONODERA.

MY PROBLEM ISN'T THE DANGER. IS DECIDING BETWEEN WHAT I MUST DO AND WHAT I SHOULD DO.

BUT HERE'S AN ENTREE - DO YOU REMEMBER THE SORTIE AGAINST BLACK CHARISMA? I WAS KILLED THERE.

[empress_without_a_throne]

[She lets that first bit pass. At least for the moment.]

I heard about that, and how it wasn't just you who "died" there either. And for some reason there's no digital record of what happened afterwards, like it didn't happen.

[keep_your_dignity]

WELL, IF YOU HEARD ABOUT IT, I NEED TO GO KILL WHOEVER BLABBED AND ANYONE OUTSIDE THIS GROUP THEY MIGHT HAVE TOLD IT TO.

BUT YOUR VERSION IS WRONG. I WAS THE ONLY ONE TO DIE. AND IT HAPPENED, AND THEN IT DID NOT HAPPEN. LONG STORY SHORT, SOME KIND OF FOURTH DIMENSIONAL EXOVERSAL REWRITE LOOP. I WILL NOT GO INTO THE SHARED THOUGHT EXPERIENCE HERE.

THAT WAS THE FIRST INDICATION.

[empress_without_a_throne]

You know it's things like what you just said that make people wonder if you're any better than everyone else in the Graveyard you bitch about.

But yes. You died "properly", everyone else died after... whatever it was that happened.

So what "indications" came after that?

[keep_your_dignity]

YOU MIGHT WANT TO ACTUALLY LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE SAY INSTEAD OF GOING WITH WHATEVER IMPRESSION YOU GET FROM HALF-REMEMBERED SHIT, BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO HAVE A VERY MISTAKEN IMPRESSION OF MY BITCHING.

BESIDES, YOU ARE THE ONE WITH HER HEAD SET ON BEING A HERO. I'M NOT A HERO, AND IF I EVER SAY I WANT TO BE A HERO I HOPE SOMEONE WILL SHOOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD.

BUT I TAKE SECURITY SERIOUSLY. DOUBLE SO WHEN THE INFORMATION IN QUESTION WOULD MAKE ANY REASONABLE PERSON THROW ME INTO A DISSECTION TABLE.

[empress_without_a_throne]

Next time you ask me if I know something you've deemed classified I'll be sure to say I don't then.

Now I'll ask again. What "indications" came after the first?