001 ☪ open } { it's robot flu season

[hackedhistory]

Who: Zari Tomaz + YOU
Where: The dorms.
When: Over the sickness event.
Rating PG
What: Zari's caught the robot flu and she dislikes it strongly.

[Starters in comments.]

Comments

[hackedhistory]

I hope so.

[She wrinkles her nose.]

Though she hasn't really shown a lot of foresight thus far.

[cakebuffet]

I think a lot of this is as new to her as it is for us... y'know, for better or for worse.

[She knows that might not be exactly comforting.]

She's doing her best, just like we are.

[hackedhistory]

Maybe. But it still would be nice to have a little more communication. I mean, the Circle isn't the only organization out there who does things like this. I've worked for some of them - and they at least had the decency to fill us in on where we're going before they send us there.

[It'll make it feel a little more like a team and a little less like prisoners getting shuffled around.]

[cakebuffet]

Well, since you have the experience, maybe you should talk to her?

[There's no skepticism or sarcasm there— instead, it's a genuine suggestion, and Ann sounds reasonably hopeful that it might actually help.]

Since this whole thing is unprecedented for her... I bet she could use some pointers. More communication would make things easier for all of us.

[hackedhistory]

If it's unprecedented, then why did she do it?

[It's a question that's been bugging her, because Astoria just seems unprepared in every way.]

Why bring us here in the first place?

[cakebuffet]

It sounds like something was wrong... she has a job to do, but for some reason she couldn't do it on her own?

[Ann frowns, folding her arms across her chest and stifling another sniffle.]

I asked her a lot of questions when I got here, but she was having trouble giving me any straight answers.

[hackedhistory]

Typical.

[People who know that the answers aren't going to be liked often have trouble talking in a straight line.]

Probably because she knew we wouldn't like them.

[cakebuffet]

I thought it was more like even she didn't know, but...

[Is that putting too much faith in Astoria? Akira's a big fan, and that's rubbed off on her a little— Ann had been pretty skeptical at first, herself.]

Maybe.

[hackedhistory]

[She gives a small shrug.]

I don't know. I haven't talked to her myself, but I tend to avoid authority figures if I can help it.

[cakebuffet]

That, I can definitely agree with.

[Most of Ann's experiences with authority figures have been pretty lousy, to say the least.]

Most of them are garbage.

[hackedhistory]

Amen to that.

[She shakes her head.]

I'm just not really sure what to trust right now.