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( it's honestly been so long that clarke's wondered if diana finally came to her senses and decided to accept that their buddying up was just for show to assuage stede bonnet. she wouldn't blame the other woman, would probably pretty successfully swallow anything close to hurt feelings down into the pit of her stomach and just keep moving on. but of all the surprises this cursed cruise liner has in store for them, getting a text from diana is the least unpleasant one. )

Oh, hey. How are you doing?

You okay?

[It's always a temptation for Diana. To run away, to not deal with things that bother or scare or overwhelm her.

But she's working on it.]

Yeah. How about you?

Exhausted, honestly. That camp outing was a ridiculous waste of time, and I'm no closer to understanding the internal workings of this ship, but. It's fine. I'm fine.

How was it here? When we were gone...

I kept to myself. After the whole "battle royale" situation last time, I didn't want to have to...watch something like that.

No one died this time. No one was even hurt, from what I saw. It was... weird. Seems like a wasted opportunity, I expected the Captain was going to unleash some sort of serial killer beast while we slept, but literally nothing happened. I don't get it.

( a sudden spark of inspiration hits here. diana had been around a while back on earth, old earth, maybe — )

Hey, did you like movies?

[Okay, bit of a non-sequitur, but Diana will take it. Anything to avoid talking about murder.]

Totes. Used to be my go-to for date night, since you could go at night.

Did you ever see one called Highlander?

Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, and Sean Connery! I don't just know it, I've practically lived it.

Great movie! Fantastic soundtrack!

Why?

The Captain's watched it, from what I understand. And has used references about it to describe our reality here. And I need to know what that means.

[Diana's slow to reply, the dots dancing around as she keeps typing and re-typing her response.]

Best case scenario? We're all immortal now.
Worst...well, there's an expression from the movie: "There can be only one."

( sour sour sour, bitter like bile at the back of her throat — )

We are more or less immortal now. At least temporarily, until bringing us back to life becomes too much of a hassle for the Captain.

"There can only be one", huh? Like the Battle Royale all over again? Just fight to the last man standing...

Yeah, neither scenario is exactly great.
The whole story of Highlander is a bunch of immortals going around, cutting off each other's heads until there's only one left standing.
Some of the crappiest movie swordplay I've ever seen...

( clarke literally could not give less than a flying fuck about bad cinematic combat, her head is just too full of swirling thoughts about immortality and beheading and just... what.

what is she supposed to do with this information? )

So... yeah, exactly like another Battle Royale.

( but then thinking back more diligently to what she'd read from skulduggery. )

Or there's multiple versions of each of us. Different moments on a timeline.

Our lives... Our worlds just continue. And even though we're trapped here on this ship, we're somehow still back home at the same time, like nothing happened. And if he messes up and brings more than one version of us here, the other just gets erased?

I don't understand it...

I think you're way outside of my area of expertise. Although I like the fact that there's a version of us back home. Means the people we care about aren't worrying about us. :|

They probably should be worrying about us.

( she's just spitballing. negatively. because what is actual optimism or looking at something potentially good and then not digging further. )

There are powerful people here from power-filled worlds. Maybe it's all a masking technique, so the Captain doesn't arouse suspicion and bring down an otherworldly brigade on his head because he took their friend.

Or maybe he really is just that lazy and incompetent, that he can't focus and bring entire people here.

I need to think more about this. ( what she NEEDS is to find someone who's area of expertise this actually is, because otherwise it's just like jumping in the deep end of the pool and floundering because she doesn't know how to swim. )

But thanks, Diana, you just cleared a huge mystery off the board for me.

I would say I'm glad, but now I'm a little concerned
Clarke, you're not thinking of doing anything drastic, are you?

( uh oh, caught. called out. it's really a blessing she has no concept of self-care in the middle of a murderboard session and thus hasn't had a drink of water or showered in the last hour, so lying comes easily enough.

a little like. gently obsfucating in an attempt to lessen the alarm. )

Of course not. I'm not planning on doing anything until we know more about him.

How are you, by the way?

Me? I'm trying, I guess.
Listen, I've had a bit of time to think
I kinda owe you an apology, Clarke

( ??? )

You what?

No. No you don't.

No. I do.
I was...judgy.

( oh it's suddenly the clarke griffin is a glutton for punishment hour. cool. )

Rightfully so, though. I dropped... a lot on you. That you didn't even ask for.

No, I'm glad you did
Not everyone is forthright about their pasts, especially in my world

I can see that, I guess.

Mine was just common knowledge, I
Anonymity wasn't ever really an option.

It could have been here
You made a choice
I respect that

Not a benevolent one. It wasn't a noble choice.

I wanted you to know what you were potentially signing up for, being my buddy. ( a flawed system, and she hates it and is coming to despise stede bonnet for his insistence they pair up. ) But I think I was mostly trying to scare you off.

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