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[demon_knight]

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Okay. I was just up on the deck? That's fucked up.

Why make a starship look like a boat? A regular old boat? How is that supposed to make people more comfortable. This is about the ponciest of white collar prisons I've ever seen, and that's a hell of a way to prevent escapes? But this is a goddamn boat in space. If there was any level of "at ease" that was supposed to happen with that, I think it missed the mark.

The view is pretty, though, even if it doesn't make any sense.

[She clears her throat after that introduction.]

My name is Jeryline. [No last name added.] Your Admiral, in a miracle of cosmic intelligence, has seen fit to make me a warden. [Something in her tone says this is really funny to her. The stuff she's gotten roped into lately has been a little bit beyond even her wildest expectations.] I would kind of like to get a rundown of how things work here. [Because last time she got a "stab them in the eyes" and "they can't get past the blood" and whatever she saw. She has a lot of memories that aren't hers, but she would have liked some more explanations, thank you.]

From what I gathered, someone fucked up, he or she does not know that there was a fuck up, I'll have to point out to them how they fucked up until they realize they fucked up and won't fuck up again, and then I can go back home, right?

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[with_my_teacup]

[He lifts his chin in acknowledgement; she probably has him pegged for 'put in for worse' and she's right.]

The bad ones... take your body. Then you got breaches, they'll take your brain. Give you fake memories, make you live somebody else's life. Not good times.

[demon_knight]

It'd be nice if he had a brochure there for the recruitment. But hell, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.

[with_my_teacup]

I hear the payoff's worth it. Not sure I'd ever sign up, just the same. And that's if I graduate in the first place.

[demon_knight]

I've got demons where I'm from [she feels alright in saying, since they're on the ship already]. I think the deal would be worth it.

[Or plan B. There's always that plan B.]

[with_my_teacup]

Demons like demons? Or demons like monsters? Xenobio bullshit or religion?

[Serious request for clarification.]

[demon_knight]

Demons demons. But they might as well have been monsters or xenowhatever. They had rules for killing them and it was annoying as hell.

[Because she doesn't know all the rules. Also that swear is literal.]

[with_my_teacup]

Still, if you know how to kill them, better than the alternative.

And by the alternative I mean some of our local undead assholes.

[demon_knight]

You don't know how to kill 'em?

I'm not gonna go after anybody unless they come after me first, but I would like to know what to do if they came after me. That's information I'd like to get my hands on.

[with_my_teacup]

There's one I'm having trouble with. But I'm working on it.

[demon_knight]

He ridin' your ass or somethin'? [Demons do this to her all the time. It is annoying.]

[with_my_teacup]

[At this, Riddick pauses. And his mouth quirks just a little, because how do you explain the hateful little stable relationship he and Arthas have.]

Once, maybe. It got more complicated then that. At this point it's mostly just habit that I want to know.

Can't kill anyone for long on the barge, so it's not a solution for much here.

[demon_knight]

Well, it's usually not my first option. More of a self-defense kind of thing. So I guess that doesn't bother me too much unless they keep comin'.

[with_my_teacup]

See, me, I usually did try it first. [Not exactly, but close enough.] The barge takes some getting used to.