075

[truth_is_cold]

[Public | Audio]

I'll resume my dinner duties whenever I'm settled. I'm greatful to whoever covered for me. [And he's considerably less angry, now.]

[Private to Friends | Audio]

I brought you some things. It has been only about a week, I presume? [They're small things. Something for Lua, Wanda, Tosh, Dylan- that he's already unfortunately delivered-, Ben, Kozak, and Perry.] I'll drop them off whenever would be suitable.

[Private to the people watching Ben | Audio]

How is he doing?

Comments

Private

[breakingmyheart]

Welcome back - I'm in my cabin, if you want to drop in. How was your trip?

Re: Private

[truth_is_cold]

Relieving. I needed it. [Or he's sure that he would have murdered someone.] I found something you might be interested in.

Private

[breakingmyheart]

Well, don't keep me in suspense.

I'm glad it went well.

Re: Private

[truth_is_cold]

[In about twenty minutes he's knocking on her door. He has a flexi in his hand, half rolled up, and is generally looking more upright than he does when he's angry and skulking about.

Which is a bonus.]

Private

[breakingmyheart]

[It rolls aside a few moments later with a heavy clockwork sort of sound and Tosh smiles at him. She looks thin and pale and has given up on cosmetics, but the smile is genuine. She steps aside to let him in.]

Hi. How are you?

Private

[truth_is_cold]

You don't look well. [The evaluation is rather blunt as he steps inside and holds up the microthin computer.] But I thought you would appreciate this. It might be an interesting distraction.

Private

[breakingmyheart]

[She's already lifting her eyebrows at the rather tactless assessment - however true it happens to be - but they stay up for a different reason when he holds up the computer. She looks it over curiously, then goes to clear a space for him to set it out and demonstrate.]

What do you have there?

Private

[truth_is_cold]

This is a flexi. You may have seen one before. Nanobots provide the images within a bendable surface. And this- [He touches a couple of the buttons. Thankfully it's not all in Vedran like his are, and has an English translation.] is a history of London. Including the area you were raised near. A history of London from the Early 21st century to the height of Earth's space-faring age, before Museveni left.

It includes personal recordings, news reports, photographs. Additional material to the raw information. I thought you would like to see it. [At least the good things that happened to her home in one timeline. Even if things got bad later, many of those people ended up on other planets.]