WEEK 3: April 15th - April 19th

[cartesio]

Third Week

The peaceful times are over. Moloch von Zinzer was murdered, and Nine was sentenced as his murderer. Everyone in Cartesio knows that.

Although life goes on, it seems the town of Cartesio isn't going to forget the tourists' transgressions. Not only they commited larceny in the cinema, they also murdered and executed in their town! It's no surprise their hospitality towards the visitors has cooled down considerably.

Not only they're maintaining a tense cordiality with them, they also have started talking behind the visitors' backs. All kinds of rumors are starting to sprout, yet nobody seems to be willing to say it to the tourists' faces. Talking directly to most passerby makes them distrustful, and nobody seems to want to be in close quarters alone with them.

It's only matter of time before the relationship between tourists and Cartesio starts degrading even further.

In the lobby of the motel there's a few more brochures, and the maps have been updated once again.

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Comments

[robitussin]

...Sounds like those people are dicks.

[It's blunt, but she means it to be understanding in her own way.]

You don't have to apologize, though. Sounds like there's a whole ton to be irritable about there.

[marmoron]

[Keith shakes his head.]

It's because people have been enslaved. Or they've had their home plane destroyed. Galra don't have a bad reputation for nothing.

[There's an attempt at a smile, but it's not all that convincing. It took Keith a pretty long time to accept his own heritage really.]

Not that any of that really matters here. But what about you? This the longest you've been away from home?

[robitussin]

Maybe they don't, but it sounds like you might have a bad reputation for nothing.

[And that's an important distinction, to her. All the same, she nods.]

Family vacations usually last a week at most, so I'm not in the habit of being away from home for nearly a month. Besides, those aren't on nearly the same level as this.

[marmoron]

[Bad reputation for nothing, huh. Removed from context, it just gets Keith to smile -- a touch more genuinely this time. He did, after all, just spend about half a week in jail for breaking and entering. Not what Natalie means at all, but still.]

Heh. The people in Cartesio need a vacation from Cartesio.

[Just saying. They're all just so distressed about everything. But more seriously:]

You miss your parents? Home?

[robitussin]

If only we could talk the Sergeant into giving us a day pass or something.

[It sounds lightly amused, too, but the question removes some of that from her voice. She pauses for a moment too long for it to be natural, before pushing the words out.]

Yeah, sure. I mean, basically anywhere beats being here, right?

[marmoron]

[He considers this for a moment, but doesn't pursue it.]

Home's never a good topic, seems like.

[robitussin]

[A small nod.]

Maybe that's what we all have in common. I've cracked the code.

[marmoron]

[That gets a small smile.\

Want a bear trap as a prize?

[robitussin]

[There's another noise of amusement, shaking her head.]

Yeah, of course. I absolutely want a bear trap, which I definitely have a use for. Mighty hunter, and all that.

[marmoron]

[There's a nonchalant shrug.]

I keep one set by the door while I'm sleeping.

[HE IS 100% SERIOUS HERE, NATALIE.]

[robitussin]

...Yeah, that doesn't really surprise me. All the same, I think I'm good on the bear trap front.

[marmoron]

Suit yourself.

[He kneels back down to start closing that box back up and get his room reorganized. He considers doing so in silence, but he's trying not to be so awkward, so after a moment he simply picks what they were talking about back up.]

We were planning to go back to Earth before I woke up here. I wanted to see it again, but... not like this.

[robitussin]

[There's a small frown, but it's more at the situation that prompts 'not like this' than anything else.]

Not by having to do... What he wants you to do, you mean?