[audio/video/text: open]

[too_high]

[The feed switches on and cycles through mediums, from audio of something softly growling, to black and white armored hands, flash of a gold visor, and blue sky above as the device is fiddled with, and then settles on text. A couple moments pass before any words are entered.]

AGENT MAINE TO COMMAND. REQUESTING STATUS. UNKNOWN DEPLOYMENT. CLARIFY.

Comments

[unrecovered]

[That's one of the few questions Wash can't answer.]

I don't know. I didn't see it. Whatever happened, she was marked as KIA, though evidently that's not accurate.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[York shrugs uncomfortably. He didn't know this one any more than Wash did, and he'd usually been grateful that he didn't know how Carolina died. But then, she wasn't dead, so at least the worst things he'd imagined hadn't happened.]

Same here. It - you - messed Wyoming up pretty bad before that, but he survived.

[too_high]

[Maine looks at York evenly, letting it soak in. Attacking Wyoming was disturbing enough, but he was having a hard time swallowing the fact that he'd done as much to Carolina. He didn't doubt it, given her reaction, but he wondered what sort of turn he ahd taken with Sigma to lead things that way.]

[He pulls in a deep breath and lets it out in a huff. Balls.]

[unrecovered]

[That gets a choking laugh out of Wash. He hadn't exactly expected Maine to take the news better than anyone else had.]

That's one way to put it.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[York opens up a channel to Wash again.]

Seriously, man, it's getting creepy.

[too_high]

[Maine looks between the two of them, and then gives a shrug. He can tell something's going on and it's getting beyond a point of obvious. He'd look stupid not to acknowledge it at this point.]

[unrecovered]

[Privately:]

Way to be subtle.

[And then publicly:]

You may want to use your journal for a while. York...isn't picking up a few things.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

I figured it would be ruder to ask Wash to translate out loud.

[Seriously though, how does Wash understand any of this.]