TEXT • id: deveny

[selection]

[ solo didn't just arrive. he's been getting his bearings, best as he can. it isn't much, but he's at least managed to make sense of accessing the network.

none of the trouble it's cost him is revealed in his short message: ]

This is certainly a dreary place, isn't it?

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id: enzo

[tormentise]

only if you don't enjoy stale air and being trapped in a tin can.

[selection]

You're not wrong. But do you? Somehow, I doubt it.

id: 0005

[razh]

Is this necessary?

[selection]

[ look, he's using a reasonably well-established alias. what more do you want? ]

Of course it is. It always pays to get to know your neighbours.

[razh]

[ there is a lot illya wants to say. a lot he wants to call solo out on. but he also doesn't trust this network and he hasn't had time to verify it's security yet.

so for now, he will simply :|. ]

Rather than meeting them in person?

[selection]

[ strangely, the :|-ing actually makes solo feel more at ease. illya is being illya, despite the unknown and strange location they've found themselves in. ]

One hardly precludes the other, wouldn't you agree?

[razh]

[ it's easier to default to his normal state of being than to let too much of this take any kind of toll. they're spies, they're adaptable, whatever this place is isn't going to get to him now. not this, and not when solo could see. ]

And have you found anything?

[selection]

[ solo refuses to be anything but confident that they will survive this and make their way back to more familiar ground. ]

My, you're impatient.

[razh]

[ good, because then illya can be the pessimistic one, just for the sales of arguing. ]

Not impatient. Just unsure if your effort is efficient.

[selection]

[ what a great pair they make. ]

Have you considered the possibility that not everything is about efficiency?

[razh]

[ you could almost say they made a good team. ]

All things considered? No.

[selection]

Of course you haven't.

[razh]

I would have thought you would be more concerned with it.

[selection]

Only on occasion.

ID: Barebone

[repressings]

The technology's quite something, though.

[ It is for someone from the 20s, at least... ]

[selection]

Admittedly, yes. But it doesn't outweigh the appalling lack of resources in the kitchen.

[ the technology is far beyond someone from 1963, too. ]

[repressings]

Lack of resources? You can get anything you'd like, sir.

[ It's shit but it's not like he realizes that. ]

[selection]

Everything except quality.

[ this is a very dire situation and you clearly do not understand the gravity of it at all. ]

[repressings]

Do you mean the taste?

[selection]

It's horrible, isn't it?

[repressings]

No different from what I usually eat. Maybe better.

Maybe you have a refined palate?

[selection]

Surely you're not serious? That's the saddest thing I've heard since arriving here.

[ yes, he has a refined palate. ]

[repressings]

Why would I lie, sir? It's mostly just stew and water.

[selection]

So you've never had a truffle risotto in your life?

[repressings]

A what?