Case #53: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is in the infirmary. He looks slightly green around the gills (not that he has gills), but otherwise well.]

That was quite unpleasant. I don't believe I like myself when I am angry.

And I hope I didn't put anyone out too much, particularly you, Captain Angua. And Dick: I do of course trust you completely with any of my bodily fluids.

Comments

Re: [Private]

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It's all right. It could have been a lot worse.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

It could have.

And, I must say, having you there was a comfort.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

I-- was under that impression, yes. You certainly seemed to prefer, er, the company.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

I meant, er, at the...end.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

Oh.

Then I'm glad I could... help.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

You did. I don't know that I might ever thank you enough.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

I think the one thank you is enough, Constable.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

Well then: thank you.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

You're welcome. It's good to see you back.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

And no longer green, yes.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

Yes.

[She pauses, then starts to say--] Well, Constable, I'm sure-- [But she stops herself with a frown, biting her lip.]

...Do you need anything there, George?

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

I wouldn't mind some company, of course, but if you have too many obligations then it isn't necessary.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

I'm surprised your ex-inmate's not there. For that matter, I'm surprised half the ship's not there.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

Detective Hoffman did stop by. He left me some reading material on a detective who is also a bat. Or possibly just dresses as one.

It...has actually come to my attention recently that most of the people I've been closest with here have departed.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

But... everyone likes you. [She honestly doesn't get how anyone can do that, much less two people she knows. There are times her friends don't even like her.]

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

I do appreciate you saying so, but I'm sure that's not true.

Re: [Private]

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I'm equally sure it is.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

I am a police officer, Captain. Our presence isn't always welcome. And I was Detective Hoffman's warden when he graduated, which not everyone here is happy about.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

[It's a fair cop, and she hadn't thought about the Hoffman thing. She's been more or less tolerant of the man... but admittedly, that's mostly because of whose inmate he was when she met him.]

I'll come over, shall I? I can teach you Cripple Mr. Onion.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

I'd like that, but I'm not sure Mr. Onion would.

Re: [Private]

[scentbombed]

It's cards, George.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable]

Ah. Then we'd both like that very much.

[Spam]

[scentbombed]

[She seems unusually flustered when she switches off, but true to her word, she shows up a while later, composed again, and holding a large deck of cardboard cards.]

Well, it's good to see you looking less like a lichen-covered troll, anyway.

Re: [Spam]

[19centconstable]

[He looks horrified.]

Did I really look like a troll?

Re: [Spam]

[scentbombed]

Not really.

...Trolls are smaller.

[She shrugs sheepishly and takes a seat, eyeing him over with a concern that she will swear is professional. It's different, over the network and in person... She remembers that from her death toll, too.] Seriously, you're..?