001 ✚ voice

[sufferably]

_{( A few hours after arriving, and after meeting up with Jim and figuring out some basics, because he's not about to make a public post that makes a fool of him in front of a bunch of people, Bones picks up the comm and says, rough southern accent and all-- )}

Alright. There's obviously no point asking about how to hail a ship that's in orbit two hundred years in the future.

_{( A great start, by Dr. Leonard McCoy. He sounds all business, and you can almost hear him rolling up his sleeves. )}

If this is a city of heroes, I'm willing to bet it's also a city of danger. _{( He says that derisively. )} If you were going to rate this place based on how easy it was to get sick, injured--how would it compare to your home ti--that is, world? Are buildings getting knocked down, people getting crazy interdimensional diseases?

I like to know what I'm working with.

Comments

[sufferably]

That'd mean I'd screwed up somewhere along the way.

[viced]

I don't know about that. It's not like you have absolute and total control over them.

[sufferably]

Maybe so. But they're well-being is my responsibility. And if they're making stupid decisions, it's probably interfering with that.

[viced]

Probably, but it's not exactly something you can always keep from happening.

[sufferably]

Don't I know it.

_{( And the sigh there is a touch heavier that it might have been, had the past year not happened. )}

[viced]

Well, you know, that's why people like me are here to help take care of the trouble makers.

I'm sure they won't be that bad.

[sufferably]

I'm not going to hold my breath. And I recommend that you don't, either.

[viced]

Don't worry, I've never stopped breathing on anyone's account.

[sufferably]

Smart philosophy.

[viced]

Well, I'm in favor of being alive, you know? I'd hate to betray that principle.

[sufferably]

It would be the last bad decision of your life.

[viced]

And I'm not really a fan of making bad decisions. I think I'll keep this whole breathing shit going.

[sufferably]

Convince everyone else in the city of that, and I'll go into a happy retirement.

_{( "Happy." Oh, Bones, you card. )}

[viced]

Shit.

You never know. I am a politician.

[sufferably]

Might as well put it to use.

[viced]

If I can let someone go into retirement? Hell, of course I will. Some of us need to get a chance to relax.

[sufferably]

Everyone needs it. Some people are just too stupid to take it.

_{( Relaxation, not retirement. )}

[viced]

Sure enough. [ He agrees verbally, but this is Mitchell. He doesn't do relaxing. ]

Some people probably don't get the chance to.

[sufferably]

Ninety percent of those people just tell themselves that.

[viced]

Ninety percent, sure. In my experience, people in my line of work take too many breaks.

[sufferably]

So the world's split between lazy asses and workoholics.

[viced]

Just like any other world, in my experience.

[sufferably]

You been to a lot?

[viced]

Not necessarily, but I've met a lot of people from other worlds. [ And read about a lot of them. ]

[sufferably]

Guess that must come with the territory, here.