[ Open | Sending Crystal ]

[obi_wanmanshow]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Obi-Wan Kenobi
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: An announcement, and a thought-experiment
WHEN: After having resolved the Leliana/Assassination plot
NOTES: n/a

This is Obi-Wan Kenobi. I apologize for the delay in doing so, but I'd like to make an announcement; I've been appointed as the liason for the Rifter population.

For this reason, if you have a concern about a particular Rifter which cannot be peacefully resolved on your own, or if any Rifter has need of information, or support, please don't hesitate to contact me. I know we may not seem like any kind of cohesive group, but you aren't alone. Please, try to remember that.

[He clears his throat, then and continues.]

As for the rest of you, I have a question. Nothing too serious, just a little... oh, call it a thought-exercise: I first heard this one as a child.

If your house was on fire, what's the first thing you'd take out of it?

Comments

[obi_wanmanshow]

I beg your pardon. Are you not....recently involved, with a Martel LeBlanc?

[He is in no way teasing her. On the contrary.]

It is good to see you... happier, regardless of circumstances.

[stabsbooks]

Oh!

[ It might be almost endearing, how honestly surprised she is. She'd thought she was - they were - being discreet. Or perhaps merely that no one was all that interested in her personal life.

But she's curious now, and he seems...sincere? Sincere and polite enough that she doesn't immediately dismiss his good wishes as disingenuous or making fun. ]

How...how did you know?

[obi_wanmanshow]

Most soldiers are worse than old aunts for gossip.

[That, and she's barely maimed anyone with those infamous glares of hers, of late.]

A thousand recruits at your doorstep, and there's no such thing as romantic discretion, I'm afraid.

[stabsbooks]

Oh. Well, it is nothing official. That is, we have not said - we -

[ She realizes suddenly that she's babbling - why is she telling any of this to Obi-Wan of all people? - and remembers, at the same moment, that she's still angry with him.

Or at least annoyed. ]

In any case...thank you.

[ And she sounds something more like her normal self now, if a slightly more civil, relaxed version. ]

When you have finished your...thought-exercise, I wonder if you might report to my office.

[ Phrased as a request only because she trusts that he won't refuse it. ]

[obi_wanmanshow]

I should have some time, yes. I'll stop in as soon as I'm free.

[All the more likely to acquiesce for not being coerced, really.]

Would that be alright?

[stabsbooks]

[ what do you MEAN there are effective ways to communicate other than threats ]

Very well.

[obi_wanmanshow]

[and so he does show up, some hours later.]