Fifth Transmission

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[York's image comes up on the communicator, and even with armor on he looks fairly confused. He's sitting in the hotel, and Sparky's in his usual position on top of York's head.]

Okay, so I know I've been kind of distracted most of this week, but what the heck happened on the Mother of Invention? Is everyone okay?

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[guerriera]

[ Visored gaze is measuring. Maybe. It's hard to tell with Carolina. ]

...Likewise. Have you been here long?

[ And huh. She knows those two spirits. ]

I wondered what happened to those two. Last I saw, they were with Wash.

[4letters4ninja]

Depends. Are you talking the first time? Or this time?

[Both spirits are waving at her through the camera, even if their person's just rolling her eyes at them]

They were supposed to stay with him. I...took a trip...and he was watching them for me.

[guerriera]

I ran into them after I first got here. They were very helpful.

[ Her helmet tips upwards, showing more of the visor. Huh, interesting. It appeared that someone else had left and returned like Epsilon. ]

That was nice of him.

[4letters4ninja]

...They were? I would expect them to cause more trouble than solve. [That sarcastic comment is met by the Fluffy version of a Gibbs!slap (Wing!Smack?) and her smiling. Apparently they take after their person a log.]

Yes, it was. Apparently they made a bit more trouble for him than I would have liked.

[guerriera]

[ Were a 'flying Tucker' not a legitimate creation concern, Carolina would have to consider figuring out how to make a bat for herself. As it is, the unspoken banter between Fluffy and Ziva earns Fluffy's person approval. Not that anyone can tell. ]

Well, trouble for Wash doesn't surprise me. [heh] But I think they may have been looking for you when they ran into me. They can hold their own in a fight.

[ And then everyone else showed up. ]

So this is your second visit? How long was the first?

Hopefully my 'math' is right...I can't remember timing...

[4letters4ninja]

[Ziva's used to it, really. And she just plucks the bat off her shoulder to use as a lap pillow, leaning on him slightly... just enough to get him to playfully flail at her. Just another day in the life.]

Good. They need the training, even if they can hold their own now. I am glad they caused little trouble for you.

[She pauses to think for a while.]

I have only been back for a few days. Before that, I was here for a couple of months.

[guerriera]

Sounds like they saved all the trouble for Wash.

[ The bats are certainly more cuddly than the hebby repps. Although given the amount of food Dax eats, he's more likely to turn into a wagon wheel than a cartwheeling lizard! At least Fluffy didn't used Carolina as an impromptu water slide (cute as that was). ]

Seems like a few months is an average around here. [ There's a glance to the tan armored man beside her, told in the faintest tilt of her head. ] Is it hard to be back here, after being home?

[4letters4ninja]

They probably did. I was not around to keep them in line. [No, really, you need to meet the guy this bat has the personality of. It would ALL MAKE SENSE. He's a brat. He just looks nice.]

Well, considering the circumstances under which I returned, I would say it is an okay transition. [Read: She'd rather be here than there right now.] But, it is an interesting thing to have to do, after spending a ...while... thinking this was all something made up in your head.

[guerriera]

Some need more of a line than others? [Somewhat rhetorical. Faintest of huffs follows: someone knows that all too well.]

[ Well. Huh. Certain parties who's communicator she's currently hijacking notwithstanding, Ziva is one of the few folks who seems happier to be here regardless of the circumstances trapping them -- or at least, more so with this second trip. ]

They [the moogles, everyone else here, They] do make a point to remind us all this IS a dream. Not entirely surprising that that fact would be believable when you woke up.

At least you have familiar faces around. [And didn't hold certain parties at gun point, as she did.]