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[possidetur]

[ Alex looks a little ashen faced and grim, but otherwise no worse for wear. Beside him is Vanessa who looks a little uneasy with the situation. Her hair is loose, arms wrapped around herself and whilst she agreed that they need to do this, and she trusts Alex, it's a little clear that she doesn't want to do it.

Alex clears his throat. ]

Alrigh’, well - I know this ain’t as big news as it would have been a couple weeks ago, but. Vanessa and I - and Bobbie and Kylo - we uh, we had a little chat. With someone who had been on the station before.

Who died on the station before.

And before ya’ll start arguin’ - just listen to what we heard, for a second.

First thing - all this? The crazy shit that we keep gettin’ in to, and why we’re so far from Earth? It’s all because of the Drive. Now we talked to the Medic so I ain’t exactly got a whole lot of technical details, but - they built it because of whatever was going down on Earth at the time, but instead of what it was supposed to do, it moved them.

Moved them, and then started killin’ them.

But the drive is somewhere on the station - or at least it was. So I think we gotta put in a real effort now to find it.

I don't understand this as Alex does. ( her words are quiet as she finally speaks. even if you've not had the conversation with her that she's from 1892 there's a look to her, particularly in her dress, that would heavily suggest that she's not from a “modern” century ) But I trust the information that we received.

( she only knows what the others told her, effectively unconscious during the affair, but there's a feeling that vanessa has. the spirit hadnt meant them harm, nor did it feel like a deception )

It may be that this Drive is behind one of the doors we have yet to open, I don't know, but perhaps someone will discover that.

( her only hope was that there wouldn't be too many questions about how they'd come to learn this information though vanessa doubted that that would be the case )

( there'll be responses from both. vanessa is in purple text )

Comments

[biochemastery]

[...What even. And he'd thought he was hard to work with!] You are uniquely frustrating, I will say that. You do realize other people know different things than you do, and might be able to share?

Can't say I'd be willing at the moment, though.

[possidetur]

( vanessa's fine with that considering she really doesn't want to share. revealing her powers? she's only done that to people she has trusted )

What could they share about this? Very few people believe in such a thing.

[biochemastery]

If it works--whatever "it" is--it doesn't need belief.

[possidetur]

You're wrong. A suspension of disbelief is only a part of it, and only one of the reasons why I would prefer not to speak of it.

[biochemastery]

[Wait. She's taking this far more personally than he expected.] Oh, it's something with you, not the station dragging corpses out for show and tell. You should have just said so.

Well, whatever Void devilry you're getting up to doesn't bother me. Just as long as you aren't secretly a Tenno lizard under that human skin.

[possidetur]

Subtlety seems to be a lost art.

( she had said it had nothing to do with the station )

[biochemastery]

Art's a matter of taste anyway.

[He hadn't noticed. Read something wrong, maybe. Much easier to ascribe the most boneheaded explanation to another's actions, when dealing with other Grineer commanders it had usually turned out to be right.]

I understand not wanting to share techniques, I kept my work secret, but really? Here? You might want to reconsider.

[possidetur]

Do you know that for certainty?

( when he knew so little of her. vanessa knew herself, she knew people's reactions, and though some here had given only kindness and understanding her power is closely guarded, a weaved secret throughout. revealing what she can do would require revealing more than just what she can do and that is something she is not comfortable with. not for public knowledge )

I agree that we cannot leave this place without working with each other but that does not require sharing every detail.

[biochemastery]

It it was me? No. I wouldn't share everything. But my best work's more specialized. Only a Grineer can really appreciate the results.

Sorcery's a different game altogether, all kinds of uses for it. Usually disgusting uses, but if it's not just Tenno now? I don't see why it has to be a problem.

[possidetur]

What makes you think I'm a sorcerer?

( an attempt to backtrack. the accusation is a little too close for comfort considering that she is a witch, though vanessa hadn't thought that she'd given enough information for someone to make such a leap. he obviously believed in something to get there, though that concerned her a little )

[biochemastery]

If you're actually talking to the dead, then no science I do can manage that. Rot only goes one way. Too far gone and there's nothing you can get.

So. No other explanation, really. I'm curious how it works, though. No one's found out, never had a chance to ask. Tenno don't have mouths, and it's hard to get them to hold a pen.

[possidetur]

Perhaps there's no explanation that you're familiar with. I don't know many of the words that you've used either.

[biochemastery]

Then there's more reason to be curious. New ways to tear holes in the laws of nature don't come along every day, you know.

Do you need the body? A place it was? What's powering it?

[possidetur]

Do you always demand so much of unknown people?

[biochemastery]

Always. It's part of my charm. So?

[possidetur]

( not so much charm from her perspective )

That part is my own.

[biochemastery]

Shame. Have it your way, then. [For now!]