IC Inbox III

[ukan]

This is Lark, leave a message.

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[citizendetective]

A dark sense of humor...?

[She asks, remembering how Pagan had laughed when she'd made a little pun about her own death.]

Do you showboat?

[ukan]

I try not to. If you're good at what you do, you don't need to.

What are you good at?

[citizendetective]

Oh, well, I have great first aid skills, I have a keen eye for detail, I'm calm in a crisis... but, um, you realize you just kind of implied that Pagan isn't good at what he does, right? Or did you mean he showboats, but he doesn't have to?

[ukan]

He doesn't have to. He showboats because it's fun. You should ask him sometime about how he runs his life now. Maybe he'll even tell you how he used to lead.

[citizendetective]

He's told me some... I mean, we were temporarily paired last month, too. He really has amazing stories.

[ukan]

If you want to make the most of your pairing, find something you can do together. I wish I'd done more of that with him.

[citizendetective]

Is there any reason you can't now?

[She asks, turning to slowly walk into the trees - turning to look over her shoulder as she does so, trying to make it clear that she's trying to walk with him, not away from him.]

[ukan]

The dynamic is different. He doesn't need my help to work through the things that made him an inmate anymore.

[citizendetective]

Well, do you guys still talk?

[ukan]

Oh, we're still friends. But you're his top priority now. And Trevor is mine. We just hang out outside of work now.

[citizendetective]

So you, like... drifted. Huh. Does it always happen like that?

[ukan]

All of us live on different worlds. Without interdimensional travel, I think we'll all lose touch eventually.

[citizendetective]

And you don't think that's depressing.

[ukan]

It's life. It doesn't change how much I care about him. If I had the option to visit him, I would, as much as I could.

[citizendetective]

I mean, I get the concept of caring about people even when you're not in contact anymore... obviously. But if I thought it was permanent, or we were totally cut off... I know I'd be really depressed.

[ukan]

It just means you have to enjoy what you have while you have it, right?

[citizendetective]

Or you could try to find a different way to hold on; have you thought about that? I mean, some people here go home with other people.

[ukan]

They do. I took my husband home from his depressingly ruined world.

Are you already thinking of who to go home with?

[citizendetective]

[Misty laughs, shaking her head.]

If we're talking about me, my people are from home, which is, uh-- lucky and unlucky? But hey, I'm glad you're not taking that "We'll all lose touch eventually" stance with everyone. Did you meet your husband here?

[ukan]

I did, we were both inmates. He was well behaved, I was a menace. Hard to say who influenced who in the end.

[citizendetective]

Well, you're a warden now, so...

[She shrugs.]

Is your husband Alec?

[ukan]

How'd you know? [Amused]

[citizendetective]

You're Lark Tennant, he's Alec Tennant - at least, according to you on the network. But according to the Admiral on the pairing announcements last month, he's Alec McDowell, so I'm guessing he changed his name and the Admiral hasn't caught up yet.

[Deductive reasoning!]

[ukan]

McDowell was never a real name. Tennant is. We even have it on our marriage license, which is the first legal document he ever got to sign.

Are you married?

[citizendetective]

Not married and not dating anyone. Totally single. Is McDowell an alias?