07,

[diamondintherough]

Can someone tell me why the fuck there's a hawk up on deck, huh? It swooped down at my sandwich and I have a decent claw wound where it tried to perch on my shoulder. Since when does the Barge have birds of prey flying around, huh?

Ek naaste dokter, all right? For a quick bandage.

Comments

[bob-fraser-snr.livejournal.com]

You should go to the infirmary, son.

A hawk after your sandwich? What was in the sandwich?

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Meat of some kind, cheese. A pretty standard sandwich, where I'm from, all right?

[bob-fraser-snr.livejournal.com]

Hawks aren't generally known to act like seagulls. I wonder how long it was up there?

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

I don't know, all right? I'm hearing it escaped from the CES.

[bob-fraser-snr.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Someone should take care of that. You look after your injury. I'll head up and see if I can find it.

[requiresssacrifice]

A...

...

Hawk?

Private - No wait, I can do better!

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Our official line on this is that it must have somehow escaped from the CES.

Private

[requiresssacrifice]

I don't know if I could lie to the public for free.

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Sure you could, just follow my lead.

Private

[requiresssacrifice]

What if I'm suddenly compelled by the truth?

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Then you crush the instinct down, baby! If you tell the truth, then you rob the hawk of it's mystery and fearsomeness. You'll only make it mad.

Private

[requiresssacrifice]

It's just a bird, Harper. Unless I have some incentive to do otherwise, I think it's in everybody's best interest to know who's responsible.

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, if you really insist on admitting that you unleashed it out into the ship without telling me, then I guess that's your prerogative. It does mean that you and I will probably have to go and try to get it back again.

You know, both of us.

Private

[requiresssacrifice]

I didn't unleash it, and you're the reason it's here in the first place!

Re: Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Oh please, people spent that flood torturing each other to death and indulging in killing spree's. No one's going to care that I got you a stupid hawk.

They will care that it's roaming the deck, however, and I gave it to you. Who else could have unleashed it?

Private

[requiresssacrifice]

...

Fine.

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Good team work!

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Ja, you know. Birds with sharp talons and beaks that apparently like sandwiches and popping up out of nowhere, huh?

[requiresssacrifice]

That's very strange. I didn't think we had birds of prey on the Barge.

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Apparently we have one.

[requiresssacrifice]

It must have escaped from the CES.

He's not sure he believes you, but he doesn't really care either..

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

.....That's a little weird, huh?

[requiresssacrifice]

The Barge is a little weird.

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Baie waar, huh? True.

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

...

There's a hawk on the deck? You don't say.

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Ja. You ever seen it?

[toldastory]

Come on down to the infirmary and I'll patch ya up.

Assuming cool?

[diamondtherough.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm on my way now.