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petal_storm) wrote2019-11-17 09:20 pm
petal_storm) wrote2019-11-17 09:20 pm
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This world is not ideal.
Who: Orchid, Elora, Ixi, etc?
When: A few years into her arrival and work on Earth.
What:Orchid has to report in on progress, and it's another day in the life for the club?
Orchid sighed and tucked her hair behind her ear, refusing to bow down to her father's judgement. Her garden pool was a full holodeck tonight as she reported in, kicking her feet idly in the clean waters. She needed the purity most days, this world had honestly gone to hell in more ways than one, and her evening soak being interrupted was a bit of an annoyance. Still..."no father, I am not returning."
No.
"I have met all the criteria you laid out. My buildings and people are all self funded and self sustaining. I am draining no resources from the forward scouts, and amazingly, while I've not reached as many people as I wish yet, your own psychologists and Patrol have approved those few I've slipped out to them already." She was being effective here and that meant his entire drive was out of fear for her safety still.
"Your father's concerns are also that your work be seen as nothing more than insane attempts to aid people, with no reach beyond your our desire to help," one of the other council members spoke out. "Has there been rumor of an escape to space? Mumbles or thoughts that you are actually disappearing people?"
Orchid laughed a touch bitterly and shook her head slightly, "oh they think me insane certainly. Altruism is not a a trait most find honorable here. As for disappearing, no. Even my own people just shake their heads sadly when a drug addict or rescued prostitute disappears. They expect me to lose people. They just try to make sure I don't take it too hard when I do...and honestly, I do lose some back to the streets, or pimps, or bad choices. I don't keep people. I lose fewer than I save though." And that helped?
"We still want you in for a psyche eval Orchid, you know that."
"Procedure," she agreed. "That's why there's a tiger sitting at my desk now I assume?"
"Ignore me, I'm playing with a rubber band ball," Victor assured, laughing.
Of course. "And assuming I pass properly, I want to bring in Poppy. He works well with the larger groups we're going to start working with."
Her father winced, he hated the idea of both children at risk, e really did, but Poppy had just had a rather dramatic 'break up' with a dance troupe in the larger ship and was feeling more than a bit lost for direction and..."he'd appreciate working again I'm sure," he agreed at last. "As long as you ask him nicely."
"I doubt I'll need to do that much, he has three years of drama to catch me up on, he'll follow me until I've heard every bit of it," she teased.
"That's true," he father admitted, surprising her with a small laugh. "You're too serious without him, he too flighty."
"Hardly flighty, just focused on very different things," Orchid pointed out. "But he'd be a good influence here."
"You have to ask him properly still."
"Yes sir," she snorted. "May I finish my soak before Victor brings me up?"
"Yes, as long as it's no too long, I want to sneak off to have a meal with you both before you two go back to that planet," her father sighed.
"And as ever the council is busy," Orchid agreed. "We'll be up soon." And she'd get to see her twin!
* * *
Elora stretched and shook her hand out; she'd had to clock someone for trying to get a drug patch on Ixi as they danced. They didn't mind drugs, couldn't really stop them in this world, but they had to be taken voluntarily and they were NOT sold on premises.
And seriously, who drugged Ixi? Most people could have a tumble just by asking nice! Bah. ::Idiots,:: she snorted to Jaeger as the twin jackals dragged the idiot out and tossed him past the security curtain, sans wallet and gear. You pulled rule breaking here then you didn't get to keep your stuff. Nope.
::You figure why we lost our dancer Issel?:: It was starting to be a problem honestly. Not a large pattern, but good people, clean or cleanish, were...leaving. Or disappearing, and it was poking the back of her mind. She tried to keep the hunt need in check, a world this crowded, wandering could be bad, even if she had her flock, but it was...
...hard when they lost their own.
When: A few years into her arrival and work on Earth.
What:Orchid has to report in on progress, and it's another day in the life for the club?
Orchid sighed and tucked her hair behind her ear, refusing to bow down to her father's judgement. Her garden pool was a full holodeck tonight as she reported in, kicking her feet idly in the clean waters. She needed the purity most days, this world had honestly gone to hell in more ways than one, and her evening soak being interrupted was a bit of an annoyance. Still..."no father, I am not returning."
No.
"I have met all the criteria you laid out. My buildings and people are all self funded and self sustaining. I am draining no resources from the forward scouts, and amazingly, while I've not reached as many people as I wish yet, your own psychologists and Patrol have approved those few I've slipped out to them already." She was being effective here and that meant his entire drive was out of fear for her safety still.
"Your father's concerns are also that your work be seen as nothing more than insane attempts to aid people, with no reach beyond your our desire to help," one of the other council members spoke out. "Has there been rumor of an escape to space? Mumbles or thoughts that you are actually disappearing people?"
Orchid laughed a touch bitterly and shook her head slightly, "oh they think me insane certainly. Altruism is not a a trait most find honorable here. As for disappearing, no. Even my own people just shake their heads sadly when a drug addict or rescued prostitute disappears. They expect me to lose people. They just try to make sure I don't take it too hard when I do...and honestly, I do lose some back to the streets, or pimps, or bad choices. I don't keep people. I lose fewer than I save though." And that helped?
"We still want you in for a psyche eval Orchid, you know that."
"Procedure," she agreed. "That's why there's a tiger sitting at my desk now I assume?"
"Ignore me, I'm playing with a rubber band ball," Victor assured, laughing.
Of course. "And assuming I pass properly, I want to bring in Poppy. He works well with the larger groups we're going to start working with."
Her father winced, he hated the idea of both children at risk, e really did, but Poppy had just had a rather dramatic 'break up' with a dance troupe in the larger ship and was feeling more than a bit lost for direction and..."he'd appreciate working again I'm sure," he agreed at last. "As long as you ask him nicely."
"I doubt I'll need to do that much, he has three years of drama to catch me up on, he'll follow me until I've heard every bit of it," she teased.
"That's true," he father admitted, surprising her with a small laugh. "You're too serious without him, he too flighty."
"Hardly flighty, just focused on very different things," Orchid pointed out. "But he'd be a good influence here."
"You have to ask him properly still."
"Yes sir," she snorted. "May I finish my soak before Victor brings me up?"
"Yes, as long as it's no too long, I want to sneak off to have a meal with you both before you two go back to that planet," her father sighed.
"And as ever the council is busy," Orchid agreed. "We'll be up soon." And she'd get to see her twin!
* * *
Elora stretched and shook her hand out; she'd had to clock someone for trying to get a drug patch on Ixi as they danced. They didn't mind drugs, couldn't really stop them in this world, but they had to be taken voluntarily and they were NOT sold on premises.
And seriously, who drugged Ixi? Most people could have a tumble just by asking nice! Bah. ::Idiots,:: she snorted to Jaeger as the twin jackals dragged the idiot out and tossed him past the security curtain, sans wallet and gear. You pulled rule breaking here then you didn't get to keep your stuff. Nope.
::You figure why we lost our dancer Issel?:: It was starting to be a problem honestly. Not a large pattern, but good people, clean or cleanish, were...leaving. Or disappearing, and it was poking the back of her mind. She tried to keep the hunt need in check, a world this crowded, wandering could be bad, even if she had her flock, but it was...
...hard when they lost their own.
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"Usually yeah but not today..."
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"I dunno..."
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"No... if people see us..."
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"If you want... i dont know what theyll do for just feeling off."
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"I guess..."
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"I dont."
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