➢ 027 [VIDEO]

[theantiaya]

A query for my fellow residents of the Barge:

[Aya is straight to the point today, even moreso than usual.  Her eyes are distant, but focused on something beyond the camera as she speaks in her usually cool, calculated tone.  Words chosen for a reason.]

How many of you have lost Wardens before your promised Graduation?  How many of these separations occurred without warning?

Or, perhaps, more relevantly...how many Wardens here have left unfulfilled promises to those you have sworn to assist?



((ooc: Translation: Aya just lost the closest thing she could ever consider to a competent Warden, and is decidedly not pleased with this turn of events.))

Comments

[secretasshole]

Interesting question, coming from you.

[theantiaya]

[Oh. You.]

[Aya stares back at her former inmate for a much longer duration than probably necessary. Unblinking. When she finally speaks, she averts her gaze.]

I am aware of the circumstances involving our pairing and subsequent separation, David.

To highlight them once again would be unnecessary...and, from you, possibly arbitrary.

[secretasshole]

[David just cocks his head to the side very slightly, and asks his own question in a perfectly polite, almost saccharine tone of voice.]

Does it feel like you've been abandoned?

[theantiaya]

No.

It does not feel like anything.

[Feeling implies emotions. Which...oh, you know the drill.]

[secretasshole]

Perhaps he simply got bored with you.

[theantiaya]

Plausible, but there were too many other individuals uninformed of his departure for that to be the case alone.

[secretasshole]

Have you received the answer you were looking for?

[theantiaya]

No.

But I have received an answer. Considering the circumstances, it is the best I will be capable of locating at this point in time.

[secretasshole]

That's shockingly optimistic.

[theantiaya]

Having realistic expectations of the degree of incompetence we are surrounded with is hardly 'optimistic', David.

[secretasshole]

I see you're still unfamiliar with sarcasm.

[theantiaya]

I see no need for it.

The fact that you do, however, is...interesting.

[secretasshole]

Is it?

[theantiaya]

Yes.

You are indulging in a manner of speech that is readily open for misinterpretation for the sake of displaying a personal sense of displeasure.

[secretasshole]

Your point being?

[theantiaya]

I am not making a point at this time. Merely stating an observation.

[secretasshole]

One you probably should have made months ago.

[theantiaya]

Why?

[secretasshole]

I'm quite fond of sarcasm.

[theantiaya]

You and several others I have encountered.

I restate: it is unnecessary, and does little more to highlight personal grievances that hold no place in a majority of conversations.

[secretasshole]

I'm always impressed by how little you ever understood me.

[theantiaya]

Perhaps because you fooled yourself into believing our mutual Artificial Existences entitled us to some omnipotent view of how the other functioned.

My Warden also did not understand me. It is not as significant a revelation as you think it to be.

[secretasshole]

You had my file.

[theantiaya]

And Spock had mine.

[secretasshole]

That isn't the point.