[catchall] Margaret

[rav3n]

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[rav3n]

[Oh!! Luke looks surprised--a touch embarrassed, even, as he takes them.]

Thanks, Margaret. That's really thoughtful. [He grimaces, looking a little sheepish.] I guess I can't tell you to keep them for yourself, huh. [Was he going to do that. Maybe.] It's nothing serious. I've just got an old injury from the front lines, and I underestimated how much sleeping in a weird position would aggravate it. Working out this morning was probably a bad idea.

[Pixi stop playing jocks challenge (impossible)]

[bossbabygirl]

I sleep very well on my own, so I won't be needing them. But we do have to do something about you aggravating your injuries.

[rav3n]

[Luke nods, glancing over the medkit.]

That's actually what I was trying to figure out. I'm not thrilled at the idea of asking the senior crew for painkillers when I can't test them to check their ingredients myself, but I might ask for some, just in case. This kit is pretty basic.

[bossbabygirl]

You could ask the doctor. I can't imagine they'll do anything worse than putting nanite technology in your brain.

[rav3n]

[The way his vibes immediately go sullen, like a cat flattening its ears in irritation.]

Ugh. I get mad every time I think about it.

[bossbabygirl]

It's just one of those things.

[like microplastics.]

Everyone is always implanting nanites into you to track you; you'll just have to get used to it. Or learn how to disable the tracking.

[rav3n]

...Your world is starting to worry me too, now...

[THE RELAXED VIBE WAS OKAY AT FIRST BUT NOW HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT YOU TOO MARGARET]

[bossbabygirl]

Oh, it's very bad. Anarchera has its pros and cons. No evil empire in control, but also no anyone in control.

[rav3n]

Has it been that way for a long time?

[bossbabygirl]

A very long time. Hundreds of cycles. But the empire that came before that was worse. I don't know if it's possible to build a system that could hold farflung parts of the galaxy together without it being brutal and corrupt, so maybe the lawlessness is better.

[rav3n]

...I guess that's true. That it would be hard to stay united, I mean. [Not the lawlessness he doesn't agree with that--but he gets her point.] It's hard enough with one planet, and that's the only one with people on it, where I'm from. That we've found so far, anyway.

[They could get into the statistics of sentient alien life forms but that's a whole different thing]