AUGUST RIFTER ARRIVAL

[faderifting]

WHO: New rifters, rescuers, and anyone else
WHAT: New arrivals are collected and transported to Kirkwall
WHEN: Mid-August
WHERE: Southern Tevinter, then the Gallows
NOTES: This log contains prompts for the ARRIVAL and RECOVERY of new rifters, which are closed to new rifters and to the characters involved in the catacombs escape/rescue team in the Tevinter plot. It also contains a new QUARANTINE prompt that is open to everyone.

Comments

[rathercommon]

And...your fellow police officers won't let you travel?

[pyrazine]

I don't have any time off yet.

[She says it as if she'll get time off one day. As far as she knows Lara showed up in Ouro Fino in 1939 and hasn't had a day off since.]

[rathercommon]

[ Well, that's a - weird bloody answer.

Kitty shifts uncomfortably. Still, she pitches her voice casual as she asks - ]

Why d'you want to become a police officer, anyway?

[pyrazine]

[She considers this. They're not here. She doesn't have to lie. The urge is still strong to say the canned answer - she likes Aluisio, for all that he's a fucking stuffed shirt who doesn't know how to have fun or take a joke - but she doesn't have to.

She considers this more.]

I didn't really want it. It's kind of a family business.

[That's the politic almost-canned answer.]

[rathercommon]

[ How completely unsatisfying. ]

Always do what your family tell you to, then?

[pyrazine]

[She lifts her head a little. Okay. Here we go.]

What, no loyalty?

[rathercommon]

[ A shrug. ]

Well, they told me to be a secretary, and I'm nothing of the sort. So. I don't think their expectations are enough to make me do something.

[pyrazine]

Well, I have the talent for it.

[rathercommon]

Still haven't said that you wanted to.

[pyrazine]

[There's a shrug there, easy and unbothered. Does she want to? Probably not. Is she going to? Yes.]

[rathercommon]

[ She frowns just a bit deeper. ]

Do you want to? Be that?

[pyrazine]

Does it matter to you?

[Here's a slight raise of tone in her voice, like maybe it's annoying her.]

[rathercommon]

[ A short shrug. ]

I'm asking, aren't I?

[pyrazine]

Why.

[rathercommon]

Because I want to know.

[pyrazine]

How often does that work for you?

[rathercommon]

Why don't you want to tell me?

[pyrazine]

[She bares her teeth in something that's half smile and half not.]

Because it annoys you not to know.

[Oh, she can tell.]

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty's lips tighten. ]

And so why's it matter to you whether I'm annoyed or not? Hm?

[pyrazine]

Because it's funny.

[rathercommon]

Funny.

[ Kitty's brows draw down dangerously. ]

And, what, you're focused on having a laugh right now?

[pyrazine]

Well, it's not the worst thing I've done.

[rathercommon]

You don't want to ask about this world, or...?

[pyrazine]

I figure this is the Cuca figuring out how to play a joke on me.

[rathercommon]

The Cuca?