[closed] plant friends gotta be plant friends

[tousei]

Who: Julius and Steinbeck
Where: On the ship Fenrir
When: 10D3
Summary: Plants being plants.
Restrictions/Warnings: Will probably delve into some body horror later on.

[ Things are changing.

Julius' tasks have leaned more and more to outright manslaughter as the weeks moved on, and it unsettles him - though it's not something easily told to others. The accident that befell his work partner gave him some reprieve, as the Dog cannot go without a Handler (or colleague, Julius insists). Since Sui Feng did not have any other important tasks to him, he has oddly a day off.

Time, rare in this tumultous place. ]

Hello, Steinbeck. This is Julius.

I would like to meet you to speak about plants.

[ A simple message, the best he can muster being a person who did not text outside of duty. It's well-encrypted and from a civilian source instead of directly tagged to the Company. Hopefully this works. ]

Comments

[tousei]

[ Julius nods. He's already promised Sion to live. ]

I will. I will not give in until every last cell is no longer mine.

[ He says this with a deceptively soft tone, but the light in his eyes hardens. ]

Thank you.

[graftage]

No need to thank me. I'm just here because we share a few things in common, it seems.

[Though he's not going to transform into a plant anytime soon.]

...Do you need somebody to check up on you, Julius?

[tousei]

[ There's a few moments of quiet while he mulls on this, grey eyes betraying little emotion but darkened in some sort of way; uncertainty, and a desire to not burden another. ]

I will manage. The situation on Leith will only get worse. It may become unsafe for you to meet me in the future.

[ A beat. ]

But there is still the network. If you need encryption, I can pass some algorithms to you.