3rd Attack . voice, spam

[inhell]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[myresponsibility]

Well, full points for honesty. Are you okay?

[inhell]

Why wouldn't I be OK?

[myresponsibility]

Because that was pretty rough.

[inhell]

I've had worse.

[ Why does she do that? Say things like she's a hero. Yes, it was awful. Just because solitary was worse, or running away from the boat was worse... ]

[myresponsibility]

That doesn't mean it didn't suck.

[inhell]

I hated it. I fought back. It's what I do.

[myresponsibility]

You're new, right?

[inhell]

Sort of.

[myresponsibility]

Well, I'm Peter.

[inhell]

I'm Ellie.

Did the bomb get you?

[myresponsibility]

No. Were you affected, or were you just. You?

[inhell]

I thought that Barge was real, if that's what you mean. But there wasn't much difference, me here and there.

[myresponsibility]

What did you do? Back home.

[inhell]

B.W. or A.W.?

[ One of their little jokes. Like dates shouldn't be BC and AD, but before the war and after the war, since everything changed so much.

Her voice is a little choked, when she says it. ]

[myresponsibility]

Uh. Both? If that's cool, I guess. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want.

[inhell]

I was just in school. I didn't do anything. My parents had a farm.

[myresponsibility]

Sorry. We really don't have to talk about it, if you don't want.

Is there anything I can do to help? Like, right now? Or anything?

[inhell]

It was just a - long time ago. That's not true anymore.

It's not like I checked a box in school, 'I want to become a guerilla warrior', okay?

[myresponsibility]

I'm pretty sure like, none of us checked a box to end up with the lives we ended up with. No one's gonna like, be pissed that you ended up getting stuck doing something you never thought you would, you know?

I mean, they'll be pissed if you try blowing up the kitchen again, but. I think that's kind of fair.

[inhell]

Some people do.

I'd've been a farmer.

[myresponsibility]

What kind of farmer?

[inhell]

Sheep.

[myresponsibility]

I don't know how great an idea this is, because there's this like, giant wolf on board? [Nymeria. :|] But if you wanted, you could maybe like, get one to take care of here.

I don't know. Can you keep a sheep in an enclosed space like this? I don't really know like, anything about taking care of them.

[inhell]

Better if they've open space. And family.

[ Just like her. ]

But I've hand-raised lambs before.

I don't know why your kitchen doesn't have chooks. - Um, chickens, I mean. Or something. I wouldn't depend on everything magically appearing.

[myresponsibility]

I don't think most people here have a lot of experience butchering their own food.