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[atowncalledtreffy]

Plenty of people. My bet would have been on Envy, but since that's not happening, no need for guesswork.

[He takes a sip...and takes another sip]

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

Envy.

[ he needs a moment just to process the idea. ]

Rest assured that I am physically well and entirely unthreatened by the various malcontents on board.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Good.

[A beat, then;]

Your warden is a piece of shit. Never thought I'd find anyone more annoying than Adrian.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

[ elias doesn't choke on his tea in surprise, but it's a near thing ]

Eiffel? What's he done to you then?

[atowncalledtreffy]

[Such a shit-eating grin at Elias' expression]

Nothing. Well, nothing yet. But I have to fight to mute my network machine whenever one of his entries comes up.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

[ with exaggerated dryness ]

He does rather have a problem with not ever closing his mouth.

[atowncalledtreffy]

So I've noticed.

You getting along with him?

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

I haven't thrown him over the railing yet, no.

[ that's the same thing, right? ]

[atowncalledtreffy]

Well, no murder is about the bare minimum I could have asked for.

This doesn’t taste like tea.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

Tea, I'm delighted to tell you, tastes like a great many different things depending on how it's prepared.

[ is he sitting up a little smugger in his chair? he might be sitting a little smugger in his chair ]

And it's hardly murder when he'd just come back.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Well, whatever's been done to it. It's not the most horrible thing I've ever tasted. Which is usually my thing with tea.

[He huffs, just a little]

Still murder. Weren't you killed here, once?

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

[ smuuuuuuuggggg ]

Twice, actually.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Twice. And it's not - there has to be a better way to describe it. Because it's not murder in the way we know it. But it's still violating.

What's that look on your face for?

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

I'm simply pleased you're enjoying the drink.

[ it really does seem to have put him in a much more relaxed mood ]

I made sure that both the men who were the cause of it understood that I will not tolerate anything like it from them again. But I don't hold it against-- well. Norton I don't hold anything against.

[atowncalledtreffy]

'Enjoying' might be too strong a word. I'm tolerating it.

[oho throwing your words back at you]

Either way. Seems there's no getting rid of us, is there?

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

[ he's going to get you to enjoy tea one way or another ]

Not that way.

[ he pauses, sips his own cup of tea. ]

It would be very difficult, but likely it's possible to make life on the Barge so miserable for an individual that they would ask the Admiral simply to send away.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Only if you're a warden.

[Believe him, he's tried]

And if you're a warden, you can just leave. Provided you aren't dead or your world's not destroyed.

I was thinking more of a permanent coma. Brain-death. But you'd have to make it so no one could mercy-kill you.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

[ that gets a quiet snort ]

Our resident Dracula aside, I rate very highly the odds that the Admiral has the miraculous ability to cure any kind of illness or disease which afflicted anyone on board.

[ elias hates it, actually ]

[atowncalledtreffy]

The warden has to request it, though. Or risk demotion.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

It's a formality, then. We can assume wardens will ensure their inmates are returned to health, so long as they're on board.

[atowncalledtreffy]

You could take them out as a pair. Warden and inmate. Although I think the Admiral probably brings the warden back.

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

Yes, I expect so.

[ why are things so hard, trevor? it's very unfair. ]

Driving someone to ask to leave is really the only option that I can see for anything more permanent.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Mmn. That, or wait until the warden leaves to go check on their world, or whatever.

You hear this ship is stolen?

[extendedbrutalpipemurder]

I'd heard the rumour floating about.

[ he's read through the entire network as far as he's able ]

Is it true after all? Is our fearless Admiral some rogue element?

[atowncalledtreffy]

It’s true. Confirmed it with a few different people.

And it just made me more satisfied that the Admiral is an evil bastard. Jon and I…we don’t see eye to eye on that.

The petty fucker tripped me with his powers.