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[She leans over to peer at the donuts. They look delicious, and it's a sweet gesture, but.]

That is very nice, but you shouldn't be here on your day off.

[er...]

Well, I. I live but ten minutes away! It's really no strain on my part...

It's not about the effort it took you to get here. Your days off are meant to be when you get away from work and relax properly. Just walking through those doors [or teleporting in, as Ashley's started doing recently] gets my brain in work mode, so if you're anything like me - and I've had to learn to hold my tongue when I'm mad at work too, so I think you might be - I'm guessing you're kind of thinking about checking a case file or picking up a practice sword while you're here.

[her eyes wince, face coloring with guilt.]

You mean to say...training counts?

Yep. It probably doesn't feel like work if you're enjoying it, and the endorphins are always great too, but it counts.

[well this isn't fair.

frowning:] Where do you go, then? When you're not working.

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Home. My boyfriend's place.

[She says, as if Cayde being her boyfriend isn't common knowledge around the Force after movie night.]

The library - you know, I've been here almost two years and I'm still not over paper books. Out with friends - shopping, sometimes. I like the food better on this coast than in Jeopardy. Heropa's beach is really nice if you like beaches. Church. Bars - ah, whoops, sorry, you're too young in this country.

[She'd been on a roll!]

There's a whole planet out there, Lucina. Even just sticking to Porter cities, that's still five different cities.

[b...boyfriend....]

...Y...yeah...I mean, I know that. [she clears her throat, planting her hands on her hips and looking elsewhere.] I guess. I mean...I'll have to...figure something out. I guess.

[ Darin had referred to her as "co-commander", so that's the form of address that Knock Out is going with. ]

Commander Williams, my name is Knock Out. At Darin's behest, I'm contacting you regarding joining Aegis Force. He made a compelling case for Aegis' strength and focus.

[Oh, interesting. Given they haven't actively recruited at events in a while, she's taking this as a personal recommendation, and she trusts Darin's judgment in matters like this.]

It's good to hear from you, Knock Out. Did you get everything you needed to know from Darin, or do you have any questions for me? Because if you're good with what you've heard so far, I'd love to hear about what kind of work you'd want to do on the Force.

He gave me an impassioned overview of the group's intent, but I'm also interested in knowing more about the various roles or divisions within it.

[ And that will help him answer her question as well. ]

I just killed Lucina.

[What. The actual fuck.

[Ashley takes a few deep breaths before replying, all the better to not reply with simply "WHAT".]

She'd better have gone rogue or something similar, because if this is over some interpersonal issue, you can consider yourself fired.

[For God's sake, the whole Jedi and Imperial homeworld squabble has had a murder-free truce for over a year. Even Darin with his inhuman possession problem hasn't had to have a teammate take him out!]

My office, NOW.

So, babe. Got some ... news. Not sure if it's good news or bad news? Kinda both but neither? But definitely big in the news department for you.

That's cryptic. Should I be sitting down? Is this face to face news and I should come to you?

Sitting's probably good, yeah. Definitely a sitter.

[He pauses, weighing whether or not she should make the trip out. On the one hand: she'll probably want to be alone. On the other: 'your dead friend isn't dead and isn't the person you know and also you're dead' isn't something you just text someone. Even he knows that.]

... And yeah. You might wanna come out here for this one.

[Well, that has her worried, even though the potential for it being good news had had her trying to clamp down her concern.]

Okay. Where are you?

Nonah, actually. Meet you at the Porter?

Yeah, can do. See you soon.

[Ashley doesn't spend a lot of time in Nonah, but she's Ported in enough times that she could Shadow Step there if she wanted... and if she hadn't realized that the soldiers of the military bases Porters are in don't like that sort of entrance. She comes to Nonah like a normal imPort, looking around for Cayde as soon as she's through the Porter.]

[He's leaning against a wall, half in shadow, waiting impatiently for her arrival. Sundance detects her distinct biotech signature before he can pick her out of the crowd and marks her on his HUD. He pockets the cards he's been fidgeting with and trots over to greet her.]

Hey. Let's, uh. Let's find a place to sit, huh?

[She meets him halfway, giving Sundance a digital wave as her hand slips into his.]

Yeah. This sounds serious - you okay?

[Her question's accompanied by a small squeeze of his hand.]

Me? I'm great, just fine.

[He squeezes her hand back, leading them towards an unoccupied bench and thinking about how to present what he's found out. Normally when he gets weird intel that he doesn't know what to do with, he just dumps it at the most relevant, intelligent person and leaves them to sort it out. But this is both weird and personal.]

So uh ... okay. So, where I'm from sometimes it happens that you strike up a friendship with someone who ain't touched by the Light, but then they die and are brought back by a Ghost. So you're happy to see 'em again but they don't know you from Adam, so everything's all weird? It's ... it's kinda like what this is.

[Her brow furrows as she listens and tries to find an equivalent in imPort life.]

So... Jacob or Iris got Ported back in but they don't remember this place?

[She hears about it on the network sometimes, and luckily the one time it's happened to her, it was with someone she didn't know very well - the Sabriel who was in Aegis Force at the start didn't have the memories of the Sabriel she'd talked to about RISE.]

Not exactly.

[He waits until she's sitting to continue.]

So I was out, grabbing some coffee 'fore runnin' an errand and I saw this guy with one of those omnitool things do some warlocky trick with a plant that fell off the floor above or something so I thought, hey, this guy might know Ashley, right? So I pop a squat, say hi blah blah blah, aaaaand the man says his name is Shepard. Then I mention your name and he gets pissed, says I'm pullin' a joke on him. Which, hand to Light, I was not! Anyway ... he, uh, let's just say he wasn't expectin' that he'd be seein' you.

[It all comes out in a ramble that he hopes blunts the shock. It probably won't, but hell if he won't try.]

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