welcome to the party, pal

[branchifer]

Who: Branch, Miguel, Tim, Boba, Dan, and Stacia
What: The supply and prisoner exchange
Where: The emptied out workroom floor
When: After all of Branch's chaos.
Warnings/Notes: Some blood, eventual cw mentions of cannibalism probably when Branch is hashing it out with Dan and Stacia, I'll put warnings in the subject.

[It's going to plan. And the heightened chaos is making it exactly as distracting and chaotic a situation as he was hoping for. The floor is cleared and there are people leading Elves and yetis to areas they've cleared, but traps can still be heard going off, sometimes randomly. Occasionally there's the angry argleblorgleblorg of a yeti getting chili powder exploding out of an air cannon to their face.]

[In some areas where traps were already set off and cleared, somehow (read: thanks to his 14-year-old secret accomplice) they've been reset, only to go off again.]

[It leaves things nice and unsettled and distracting.]

Comments

[ninjavampire]

Yeah. Right. Until you’re not fine, and then who has to come get you?

[ he’s repeating this for posterity - they’re in this together now, for better or for worse. ]

And I dealt with it because I was there first and decided a long time ago that I didn’t like sitting on my hands.

Lucky you.

[orivodika]

[There's more scowling because he thinks Miguel's response is wrong and stupid.]

Right. Lucky me...

[Boba zones out for a moment while thinking about his "luck".

His dad didn't believe in luck, so Boba doesn't either, but he can't say that things have been going good since Jango died.]

[ninjavampire]

Could be worse.

[ he says it pointedly. ]

You could be wandering around in the cold, completely lost, instead of having a warm place to scowl at.

[ sure the kid was capable, but there’s no tech solution out of being dumped somewhere in the arctic. ]

[orivodika]

[There's some intense eye-rolling happening. "It could be worse" is not something Boba wants to hear.

He could be stuck in the snow. He could be stranded in the Dune Sea, or dropped in the middle of the ocean on Kamino.

He could still be in prison.

That doesn't change the fact that he doesn't want to be stuck here with these people. (Miguel is turning out to be okay so far, and Branch is nice. He hopes they don't hurt him.)]

I could be back in my ship.

[Which isn't true because the jetii destroyed it (he has spent months and months not thinking about it), but he stands by his point.]

[ninjavampire]

We have to manage our expectations.

[ Miguel does not make that much effort to hold back the sardonic tone in his voice. Was he really going to be like this with the teenagers in the vicinity?

The answer appears to be yes. ]

Being stuck on the Pole isn't where I want to be either.