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3rd Attack . voice, spam
[ spam - kitchen/breakfast ]
[ She's on the breakfast shift now. Expect Vegemite, thick slabs of bacon, fried tomatoes, and muesli. Also a somewhat eerie blank expression - work like this is really good for letting her turn off her mind. ]
[ voice ]
It was me. Um. The kitchen.
I don't know if anyone was caught in the explosion. Or if the people around were OK.
..well. Most of you I wouldn't care much.
[ One of Ellie's main skills is not apologizing.
After a moment, she cuts the feed. ]
[ She's on the breakfast shift now. Expect Vegemite, thick slabs of bacon, fried tomatoes, and muesli. Also a somewhat eerie blank expression - work like this is really good for letting her turn off her mind. ]
[ voice ]
It was me. Um. The kitchen.
I don't know if anyone was caught in the explosion. Or if the people around were OK.
..well. Most of you I wouldn't care much.
[ One of Ellie's main skills is not apologizing.
After a moment, she cuts the feed. ]
[spam]
[spam]
[spam]
Oooh no, lovey. Babs doesn't drink, for one, so I don't drink round 'er. Megamind doesn't 'ardly drink so you'd notice. Plenty of other ways to relax. That's one reason I took the spa over. I ought to encourage folk a bit more.
[spam]
It just doesn't seem that fun to me. Get dizzy and then get sick all over everything.
[ She can't even tell anymore if she hates it because of Chris or because of the party. Maybe both. ]
[spam]
No, well, plenty of folk don't like it. You don't 'ave to, sweetheart.
[She almost says no one here's going to make you, and then stops. She's not sure, but that might be Ellie's sore spot; she's seen that hunched posture from Bea, from Rogue. (From herself, from a time Iris chooses not to remember.)
It's not a promise Iris can make, not for the Barge as a whole. So she doesn't try to make it. She merely resolves to keep an eye out.]
[spam]
[ This topic is dangerous. It brings up all kinds of anger, memories and things that Ellie can't let herself feel. ]
[spam]
She's noticed. She'll be watching out for Ellie. But she won't raise it again.]
I ever tell you about the time we 'ad to clear a flock of velociraptors out of the London Underground?
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[Iris may be inventing this tale out of whole cloth, or it may be perfectly true. Sometimes she's not even sure herself.]
Well, I were working for MIAOW at the time, so when you've got a spacetime anomaly spewing dinosaurs all over the Bakerloo line, narurally they called me in. Oooh, we 'ad a right old time rounding 'em up.
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[ Maybe an exaggeration. But Wirrawee doesn't exactly have miles of sewers for dinosaurs to hide, and livestock would be a magnet for them, wouldn't it? And if farmers knew to watch out... They'd be ready, with guns. ]
[spam]
Aye, that's what Mida wanted to do. And I'm not - I eat meat, all right, I've hunted for food before now. Me own 'ands aren't as clean as all that.
But I try not to make anything die I don't 'ave to. I found a way to make a scent trail they couldn't resist - I bet you didn't know velociraptors go bonkers for ethyl ethanoate.
[spam]
'Course I knew that. Everyone knows that, velociraptors and ethyl ethanoate. Obvious.
[spam]
Right? This is why you never travel without a bag of pear drops. Anyway, I Pied Pipered those buggers right back down the anomaly they come out of. Then we collapsed it by overloading the particle field with the polarity reversed; job done.
[spam]
Apparently it's the most common movie line.
Re: [spam]
Well where the 'eck d'you think they got that line from, Ellie love? I ought to sue for royalties, I should.
[And then she winks.]
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Time travel's a bit like that. There's a theory that by its very nature, time travel were invented at every point in history simultaneously.
...all right, that doesn't quite work out in practise, but the theory's got a kind of truth to it. Every species that's got a stated concept of time passing comes up with the idea, at least.
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[ There are a few things Ellie wouldn't have done.
She wouldn't have screamed, and revealed the soldiers. What if it was her fault? What if. ]