one.

[tesselate]

[voice]

"Don't eat other citizens," - someone really thinks it's necessary to give that direction? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's definitely good to not eat other people, I would just think that it wouldn't be the best idea to bring people that might eat the other citizens. It wouldn't really be cannibalism though, right? Because if you brought someone from another planet that wasn't a human, but ate humans, then....

[Billy kind of trails off as he contemplates this - and then the fact that wow the first thing he's posting to the notwork is discussing the technical terminology of cannibalism when it comes to alien races. Awkward.]

Anyway, hi. I'm Billy. I was kind of in the middle of something back home but I'm guessing that's not really going to do anything for me in terms of getting back there, so it's probably better just to get into this whole network....thing.

Oh, yeah, one last question - so "Stark Technologies" communicator, right? That wouldn't happen to be Stark as in Tony Stark, would it?

[I mean, hey, there are other Starks in other worlds. GRRM is particularly fond of killing them.]

Comments

[tesselate]

You were with the Initiative?

[demonspawn]

Technically still am.

[tesselate]

Oh.

[that's a great response, Billy, keep it up.]

[demonspawn]

Yeah. Not that it matters here. You talked to Kate yet? She's around. Some X-Kids too.

[tesselate]

Yeah, I have talked to Kate - it's good to see people I know from home.

[demonspawn]

Sure. I bet it's a real party. Better enjoy it before we get attacked by Skrulls or warped to a dimension where everything's made out of cheese.

[tesselate]

I've done the Skrull thing before. It's not fun.

[demonspawn]

Well, we're obviously all about fun here, so.

[tesselate]

Yeah, I got that much.

[demonspawn]

Right.

[ a half-beat ]

So. I guess you're not hiding a guy named Teddy in your pocket or anything, are you?

[tesselate]

I wish.

[demonspawn]

[ another slight beat, then a bit awkwardly: ]

Sorry. My best friend waited years for him to come back, so. Yeah. She's not here anymore, but she kept some of his stuff. And the cat he gave her boyfriend, who coincidentally isn't here anymore either.

[tesselate]

Where's the cat now? Who is your best friend?

[all the questions.]

[demonspawn]

[ a bit reluctantly, because ugh feels and that's gross okay: ]

Her name was Abby Boylen. Cloud 9, I guess. She was in the Initiative too. And the cat? [ a little exhale. ] Well, I've got it.

[tesselate]

[feels aren't gross 8( billy has lots of them.]

That's good I'm glad it has a home. But Abby...is she okay?

[demonspawn]

I don't know. She's been gone a while. That happens here.

[tesselate]

I'm sorry.

[demonspawn]

[ dismissively: ]

Yeah, well, if you're sorry about that, you'll probably be sorry a lot.

[tesselate]

I'm just trying to be sympathetic.

[demonspawn]

[ another brief pause ]

Yeah. I know.

[ then maybe a little reluctantly: ]

I'm Terry.

[tesselate]

[what a cutie.]

Hi, Terry.

[demonspawn]

Hi.

[ a bit awkwardly: ]

So. Yeah. I don't know. You want Teddy's stuff?

[tesselate]

Yeah, I think so. That'd be. Yeah.

[demonspawn]

I'll send my address to your comm. Come by in the evening whenever.

[tesselate]

Okay, thanks. What kinds of things did he leave?