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Marsh || Steel Inquisitor ([personal profile] myironeyes) wrote2014-01-16 09:44 am

Hedgeturtle Senior is mostly right-side-up again

[Public text + open spam, the afternoon of Iris's reunion with her bus]

There is fresh pie in the Dining Room.

[Or anyone could encounter Marsh in the stairwells or in the Dining Room itself, appearing in a stern swish of black shrouds to drop them off, one each, steaming slightly, at neat intervals. He needed to do something with his hands, and for once sewing felt insufficient.]



[Private to Kelsier, after Erik's post]

Will you go?



[Spam for Nathan, backdated to about 30 minutes after the joysplosion from Iris's bus.]

[He's not sure what he needs, except quiet, somewhere he can mark out the boundaries of himself, by walking them, in unspoken pain again, somewhere he can be alone among the pieces of his mind without being alone. So he goes to Nathan, and he knocks.]



[Private separately to Ben, Touko, Riddick, Zane, and Sylvanas, a few hours after, around midmorning]

Do you require anything?

[Which means, are you alright? Checking in on everyone he knows has a history or particular fear of mind control, excepting Arthas, who was publically disgruntled but otherwise fine, and Alpha, who Marsh still hasn't really forgiven, and probably never will.]



[Spam for Iris]

[Later, he finds the sticky note. That evening, in neat, tiny inked handwriting, he replies on the back with a verse from a lullaby.]

I

Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping
With shadowy garments, the wilderness through;
All day we have carolled, and now would be sleeping,
So echo the anthems we warbled to you;
While we swing, swing,
And your branches sing,
And we drowse to your dreamy whispering.


[The adhesive is faded and on the wrong side anyway; he leaves it on the floor just outside her door.]
forsaken_queen: (embrace the shadow)

[Private]

[personal profile] forsaken_queen 2014-01-16 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[What? Why are you contacting her? Wasn't she disagreable enough the last time they'd spoken?]

Nothing you're likely to give me.
routemistress: (monochrome)

[private]

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-01-16 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Love you, Spiny. I'm sorry about earlier.

Want to come exploring, now she's got 'erself back under control?
forsaken_queen: (hand on hip)

[Private]

[personal profile] forsaken_queen 2014-01-16 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's actually glad of that too. No thank you. She does not care for her mind being invaded at all, ever. She's got enough of that going on as it is.]

You're glad? Why? What does it matter to you?

[Because it makes no sense. She isn't even nice to you, Marsh. Well, maybe that tiny insinuation that you aren't scary, but really it was backhanded at best.]
with_my_teacup: (Mood-- shadow and eyeshine)

Private

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-01-16 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a'ight. Thanks for the waistcoat. Haven't had a chance to wear it yet.
forsaken_queen: (side glance)

[Private]

[personal profile] forsaken_queen 2014-01-16 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[What does she make of that? Too much. They had shared brief encounters and they'd been alternately beyond painfully intimate, and then painfully awkward because of it. This one understood things about her that others on this ship just could not begin to comprehend. And that was detrimental to her intentions.]

My very existence is suffering. Your concern makes little difference.
forsaken_queen: (oh...)

[Private]

[personal profile] forsaken_queen 2014-01-16 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[What could she say to that? Nothing for a moment.]

Yes. You do.

[Because there's no denying it. It would just be pointless.]

Was there anything else?
routemistress: (snow)

[private]

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-01-16 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a planet I found once - I tried to give Zane it for Christmas but the Admiral couldn't fit it in 'is room. It's got some weird tectonic business in its crust, all metal swirls all over the surface. I can take the lot of you to see it now.

And you'd like the Eye of Orion. It's a bit peaceful for me, usually.

[She doesn't exactly sigh.]

I'm not always a safe person to be open to. All I can offer is to do me best to be worth it.
routemistress: (monochrome)

Re: [private]

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-01-16 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She grins, then, because she knew that about Marsh already. It's why she loves him so.]

That's why I only apologised once. I will show you every beautiful, sweet-smelling peaceful place I ever found. And maybe, one day, one or two that people like us can make peaceful and beautiful again.
forsaken_queen: (close up)

[Private]

[personal profile] forsaken_queen 2014-01-16 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her reaction is a visible one, flinching back, but then she doesn't know he can't see it, doesn't really understand the limitation of his vision.]

No. [The single word is vehement enough that even missing the visual cue, he'd know her reaction.] It's all I have.
deadly_ned: (headtilt)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2014-01-16 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there?

Who else is making pie?
deadly_ned: (hugging this urn)

[personal profile] deadly_ned 2014-01-16 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You are?


What kind?
onlysurvivor: (Default)

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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2014-01-16 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I will. I need to be with Mare and talk to Sazed.

Marsh, I want--

You need to let go of the guilt.

[a long pause]

I'll come back. I don't know when but I will.
with_my_teacup: (Default)

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[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-01-16 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
How was your Christmas.

[He's so deliberately not talking about this morning that the words almost create a negative-space image of it.]

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