[b]Ares Site:[/b]

Cheadle isn’t fazed by this either. It’s obviously not the first time this line’s been tried on him. “Nope. Don’t know who’s ranking at the moment. I’m just a corporal. Just means I’ve got enough to get someone else to throw your friend here out for me.” As soon as he says this, he loses all motivation to be the one to deal with York. [i]His [/i]shit can roll downhill. He lets go of York’s shoulder and gives him a warning look while he makes some hand signs over his head, and some officers on a mesh catwalk up and behind you acknowledge it without doing anything. 

“Something I noticed watching these guys.” Zhang says to Brown in a low voice while York tests his arm’s range of motion. “No accountability means no discipline. They’re free to do what they want, so it’s hard to make them do stuff they don’t want to.” She laughs to herself about that. “Which, like, right?”

Corporal Cheadle looks at her out of the corner of her eye. “What are you laughing at?”

“Saying we ain’t so different, you and I, coppa.” 

The corporal feels insulted and squints at Zhang while trying to work out how. He’s distracted when York starts holding a conversation with someone down the line in sign language and starts working out what to yell at him for there instead. York’s too happy about someone else knowing sign language here to care. 

Zhang looks to you while Cheadle’s gone. “What do you think, tea lady? Is it worth suing over this? Why hasn’t anyone brought a case, yet?” There’s a weird mix of cynicism and utopianism in her, conflicting right now. She’s been through all sorts of illegal arrests, sure, but she keeps taking them because she keeps thinking it just takes the right kind of perseverance to make it matter - and she’s been right about that enough that experience has empowered her as much as blunted her. 

What she’s really asking is; Is this a fight that can’t be won, or just a fight that nobody’s tried hard enough to win? Does the difference matter to [i]Brown[/i]? 

[b]Pope:[/b]

“There’s writing and there’s [i]writing[/i]. I’m not teaching you writing, I’m helping you [i]write[/i], here.” He chews that over for himself. “Listen, I read that last piece of yours, and I got a bit of a sense of how you work together. The problem is that your collaboration is a betrayal of your own voice. You start off with something lacking, but everything you add to it like this is like another knife in Caesar’s back. And I could talk to all of you, but you’ve all got your own voices in there - and so I’d tell all of you something completely different, what works for each of you. Then you’d go and compare notes and trip each other up again.” 

He gives an awkward shrug. “I see figuring out how to get one voice into one microphone at a time an easier proposition than nine microphones without interference. I’ve seen what happens when all nine hold the microphone at once, and the Andrew Sisters you are not.” 

Pope sees this more like an issue of wanting to write vent pieces when he’s angry and ruining it if he's happy, or being entirely unable to write an erotic scene while dealing with feelings of shame. Each colour might be as incomplete as a person only experiencing one mood, but at least there’s something to picking a writing mood and just letting the rest of your experiences inform it. 

[b]Fiona:[/b]

[b]TalesFromDecrypt:[/b] With Green, like, I get it. I mean, I do relate. I’m just working on relating less. I’ve just got to do it in my own head, I can’t make new heads to do it for me. Tell her I’m jealous. I hope she likes that.
[b]TalesFromDecrypt: [/b]So locking in a ten year lease on this place, it’d be 1,600 square meters with two office spaces, and $540,000. That’s the best deal I can get. 
[b]TalesFromDecrypt: [/b]I want dibs on one of the office spaces for a bedroom. Also I’ve earmarked $60,000 for like, repairs, painting, pest control, checking the plumbing and stuff like that. And a proper hot water system so we can take showers and stuff there. 
[b]TalesFromDecrypt: [/b]I’d be giving you $600,000 and the space would be yours and Blue’s to play with, decide on how you want to split that. I at least want the stuff to kind of be able to get some augments done off the books, but I have [i]no idea[/i] where I'd find a black market surgeon hahaha
[b]TalesFromDecrypt: [/b]… 
[b]TalesFromDecrypt:[/b] Sorry I was figuring all that out while you were typing and deleting I just didn’t want to interrupt.
[b]TalesFromDecrypt:[/b] Yes. I would love to model for you. I was kind of hoping I could ask about that too. Do you take requests??