[ text ] un: aragaki; like 4 am

[petsthedog]

[It comes on the network like an intrusive thought -- because it is. Because Shinjiro can't sleep, even with all the talk of distracting activities like movies and pumpkin carving and costume parties. (Where do you even get costumes on a spaceship, anyway?)

Because he can't stop thinking about what Olexa said in that building, at the end. Would you die trying to get that stone back? Cheri's motivations were selfish, but then, aren't theirs too? So-Yeon's hadn't been, and while she'd surrendered the orb, what if she hadn't? What about the next mission?]

do you think the orb is worth killing people for

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[arc_reactor]

So now you can't do the best you can because, what? Once you do one thing sketchy, that's it, forever? Full speed ahead into evil, no take-backsies.

( He has some experience in being a sketchy twat and turning it around, okay. )

[petsthedog]

[Admittedly, no take-backsies is more or less how Shinjiro feels about this particular topic, but he doesn’t want to get distracted here—]

i’m just sayin this place ain’t exactly signed us up to help people
it was lookin for suckers desperate enough to listen to a sketchy dream voice offerin to let em take back the past
we ain’t even met our boss yet
for all we know he’s gatherin the orbs to take over the world himself

[arc_reactor]

Yeah, that thought occurred to me, too. A handful of us met a guy like that.

( Thinky-think and a pause here, before he decides he's tired of talking through the link. He's also not getting any sleep tonight, apparently, so: )

Do you like coffee? I could go for some coffee.

-> action?

[petsthedog]

coffee's fine
i'll see you in the kitchen i guess?

[Shinjiro makes his way out to the kitchen area in short order. Tony will find that his new network acquaintance is pretty young, eighteen or nineteen at most. Even so, the jacket and beanie are pretty old and weathered, like he's been wearing them a long, long time.

His hands are buried in his pockets when he steps into the kitchen, posture somewhat hunched as usual as he looks around for the person he's supposed to meet. He nods in acknowledgment when he spots the other man.]

Stark, right?