Voice Test

[lifeban]

[look i am absolute dogshit at coming up with prompts for these and when i do we end up doing something totally different, SO

take your pick

and/or just ask for ridiculous texting

or propose something]

Comments

[lifeban]

[Dan Heng drinks his coffee without flinching, but that doesn't mean it's trustworthy. No one is bluntly asking about Moon... mostly because they're used to how little Dan Heng likes sharing things about himself, and Moon seems very wrapped up in that. The black hole question gets the older man-- Welt, he introduced himself as-- to pause.]

"We can check easily enough... why?"

[eggstinction]

Mm, well, they're useful landmarks, aren't they?

[i'm lost and i want to know whose neighborhood i'm in]

[lifeban]

I'll show you in the databank.

[aka his bedroom.]

[eggstinction]

Oh, yes! You had that big map on the wall. Thank you.

[lifeban]

It's no problem. The databank is one of my duties.

[eggstinction]

You are a researcher, then?

[lifeban]

Not primarily. My job title is technically bodyguard.

[eggstinction]

Oh, really? For whom?

[looks at the table, one of these guys??]

[lifeban]

[gestures at the train around them.

the redhead cuts in, tone amused.]

"For the Nameless in general. Any who ride the Express. He wouldn't accept our offer to join our journey without a job to do."

[eggstinction]

That is quite a charge to take on.

[probably! moon doesn’t know, but he trills a laugh. it’s charming to insist on earning his keep! and it’s amusing to wonder if that puts him under Dan Heng’s charge as a threat or as a client]

[lifeban]

You're telling me. This lot loves trouble.

[that's accepted with overall amusement around the table]

[eggstinction]

And it is a position with job security! How nice.

[lifeban]

[blinks like he has never once considered job security a good thing]

[eggstinction]

Such a face! Is it not? Would you rather they sit quiet and let you retire?

[lifeban]

They would never.

[dryly, which sets off laughs around the table.]

...Come. I'll show you the data bank.

[eggstinction]

By all means.

[a polite bow to the Conductor and another to the table at large before he stands up to follow Dan Heng]

Thank you for sharing your breakfast with me.

[lifeban]

[moon and dan heng get some waves as they retreat. BACK THROUGH A DOOR how does moon shift vibes, dan heng is watching this time.]

[eggstinction]

[moon's shoulders had had soft slump and he was slouching at the breakfast table, keeping his gestures small and close to his body while his tail stayed curled under his chair— except for guarding against March 7th, he hadn't been very expressive with it all.

now his shoulders are rolled back and his tail swings wide behind him, its tight curl relaxing into a long whip that dances and flicks at his every curiosity as he goes down the corridor. it has more spikes on it now too, more a proper weapon. his balance, his carriage, his reactions... all of them relax from the polite guest into a creature at ease with its power and surroundings. the train is a novelty and there were people with pwoer in that room, but they're traveling through his domain. there's nothing here that could be a threat to him.

and so he doesn't need the armor over his neck or his arms to defend himself, but they click back on too. he doesn't mind sharing his hidden nature with Dan Heng]

Your friends were nice. I appreciate they did not ask how I got on board, because I did not have a reasonable excuse ready.

[lifeban]

[that's an intriguing shift, and he notes the increased spikes and armor, too, even as Moon clearly relaxes.]

Mm. I suspect they didn't want to hear the answer.

[eggstinction]

[a short trilling bark. ha!]

"An infant dragon god got into my dream and got stuck" would beg more questions than answers.

[lifeban]

Getting involved with Aeons... is complicated. Too.

[eggstinction]

Am I an Aeon?

[lifeban]

Are you?

[eggstinction]

I am unfamiliar with the term.

[lifeban]

God, essentially.