[Bathing suit? Not on her list of currently owned items. Heck, even her most recent one had been burned down when the water park had caught on fire...]
Is it some place you went to often before coming here?
Can't say I'm familiar with London. Spent a fair amount of my time in a space ship. Not exactly hot springs material.
[Showers, certainly. Had good training facilities, and overall, the ship was fairly large, but it wasn't a luxury ship, built for comfort. It was a military vessel.]
And I've never been in a space ship. It must be something, looking out of a window and seeing stars go by.
[Jane is about as far from military as a person can get. she still has no interest in learning anything like self defense or picking up anything other than mace]
[No doubt some would have found that enjoyable, like stopping to smell the flowers. Carolina? She'd been focused on the mission, on the leader board, on a million other things.]
It's something that is quite awe inspiring, if you stop to think about it.
[while Jane has always been the sort to fly by the seat of her pants while at the same time, going after what she wanted. she met Dan in a chance encounter after a traffic accident and charmed him enough to dump a long-term girlfriend for her]
I'll bet. All those stars with all those planets. Maybe some of 'em have life on them, maybe they don't. It sounds like a lot of possibilities.
[It is also the reason for the Great War, the reason that her mother died the way that she did. Humans and aliens had clashed... Not that surprising, if you think about it.]
Well, without having to explain a whole bunch of stuff, the war was instigated by the Covenant - an alliance of multiple alien species. Lasted for almost three decades.
[Religion had had a part to play in it, on behalf of the aliens.]
Me, neither. If I could think of something that's not convoluted, believe me, I would do that thing with all my might. But life is convoluted by default. Which sucks, but--[she shrugs and takes another drink of her beer]
[cheerfully because yes, this place is full of weird shit and it's not like she's got anything to go to back home, but it's hard to care when she's around Carolina]
[That smile as she gives another small check on Alice's shoulder. Cheers to that.. And yet, looking back on her retirement, she can't picture anything better.
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Date: 2018-09-19 08:06 pm (UTC)You do now. I'll figure out something to eat and drink while we're there and we'll have a good time.
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Date: 2018-09-20 12:38 am (UTC)[Although it begs the question as to what do you wear to a hot spring? A bathing suit?]
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Date: 2018-09-20 12:55 am (UTC)[she takes another swig of her beer. and Jane's both gone in the nude and in a bathing suit. she'll be nice and go with the bathing suit]
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Date: 2018-09-20 02:30 am (UTC)Is it some place you went to often before coming here?
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Date: 2018-09-20 02:40 am (UTC)Don't I wish. I lived in London for four years, I'd have to go to an indoor heated pool or hot tub.
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Date: 2018-09-20 02:54 am (UTC)[Showers, certainly. Had good training facilities, and overall, the ship was fairly large, but it wasn't a luxury ship, built for comfort. It was a military vessel.]
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Date: 2018-09-20 03:03 am (UTC)[Jane is about as far from military as a person can get. she still has no interest in learning anything like self defense or picking up anything other than mace]
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Date: 2018-09-21 02:18 am (UTC)It's something that is quite awe inspiring, if you stop to think about it.
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Date: 2018-09-21 11:41 pm (UTC)I'll bet. All those stars with all those planets. Maybe some of 'em have life on them, maybe they don't. It sounds like a lot of possibilities.
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Date: 2018-09-23 03:20 am (UTC)[It is also the reason for the Great War, the reason that her mother died the way that she did. Humans and aliens had clashed... Not that surprising, if you think about it.]
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Date: 2018-09-23 03:58 am (UTC)[she has no faith in humanity's ability to get along with aliens. humanity can't even get along with itself]
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Date: 2018-09-23 04:39 am (UTC)[Religion had had a part to play in it, on behalf of the aliens.]
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Date: 2018-09-23 11:14 pm (UTC)[three decades is longer than she's been alive. she can't imagine growing up in a situation like that, especially against multiple alien species]
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Date: 2018-09-28 05:13 pm (UTC)[Of course little about war is straight forward anyway. Goals change. Friends and allies change. ... people change.]
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Date: 2018-09-29 03:34 am (UTC)[love certainly is. why would war be any different?]
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Date: 2018-09-30 04:43 am (UTC)[Because screwed up life? Carolina's got that down pretty pat.
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Date: 2018-10-01 02:48 am (UTC)[She'd be bored out of her god damned skull otherwise.]
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Date: 2018-10-01 09:59 pm (UTC)[she raises her beer for a toast]
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Date: 2018-10-02 02:14 am (UTC)To malarkey.
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Date: 2018-10-02 02:57 am (UTC)And all of the weird shit that comes with it!
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Date: 2018-10-02 01:00 pm (UTC)[Dryly, because yes, she does have experience with that, but there is that soft light in her eyes. But she does take a swig of her drink anyway.]
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Date: 2018-10-02 07:54 pm (UTC)[cheerfully because yes, this place is full of weird shit and it's not like she's got anything to go to back home, but it's hard to care when she's around Carolina]
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Date: 2018-10-03 02:12 am (UTC)For the most part, anyway.]