"Or do I have the honor of meeting a veritable vet?"
[The voice that greets him is a little mocking, judging by the eye-roll and the hands on the redhead's hips as she watches him try to recover with said halfhearted olive branch. It's okay, though — she actually gets it, because her rap sheet? Totally full of hostile replies, defensive sarcasm, and general failings of maintaining her composure. Judging by the casual way she lounges her arm across the bridge railing, she's not taking any of it personally at all.]
... Actually, yeah. I've been here a year and some change now. Now I can put 'verbal decapitation' on my fancy list of veteran battle scars. [She glances up.] I'm guessing you're in a mood because your world sucked, last you left it?
[Because boy, this ship is the actual club for that.]
PART II. YOUR NEW NORMAL // 5.0
[The voice that greets him is a little mocking, judging by the eye-roll and the hands on the redhead's hips as she watches him try to recover with said halfhearted olive branch. It's okay, though — she actually gets it, because her rap sheet? Totally full of hostile replies, defensive sarcasm, and general failings of maintaining her composure. Judging by the casual way she lounges her arm across the bridge railing, she's not taking any of it personally at all.]
... Actually, yeah. I've been here a year and some change now. Now I can put 'verbal decapitation' on my fancy list of veteran battle scars. [She glances up.] I'm guessing you're in a mood because your world sucked, last you left it?
[Because boy, this ship is the actual club for that.]