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[greatlightother]

[Sveta's back, friends! She's on the deck, dressed as if going to a ceremony. A long white dress whispers around her ankles and her hair falls loose around her face. She looks as if she had been crying once, but has since brushed it off, revealing only a few faint splotches of red around her eyes. She sets the camera down and takes a deep breath.]

Destiny. We're all supposed to have one, yes? We're all supposed to follow it. But I never knew you could change it.

[She holds up her hands to show them. They're covered in a faint white dust which she brushes off quickly, creating a small cloud.]

Chalkdust. [She gives the camera a very serious look.] It might as well be bloodstains. [She reaches into a small purse and pulls out a cigarette, lighting it quickly. Yeah. Sveta smokes. Enjoy that.]

Fuck them. I'm not going back.

[Private to Ardent]

I can erase Destiny. They asked me to erase the Destiny of a young boy.

[Private to Howie]

I'm back. [A soft laugh.] Obviously. He didn't stop me.

[Filtered to Friends]

Give me tonight. Then tomorrow, get me drunk. Or something.

[[OOC: So. Apologies for the Sveta spam again. BUT...Sveta's had a canon update, yay! The details of that will come later! For now, she's just a little freaked out. Also, feel free to spam if you want. She'll be up on deck for a while.]

Comments

Private

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

Probably the swim before the drink.

Private

[toldastory]

Of course.

What time?

Private

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

I don't care, Martha. I just...whatever time is good for you.

Private

[toldastory]

I'll meet you there at four then.

Private

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

Okay. Thanks.

private;-Spam or assume?

[toldastory]

Of course.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

[After checking the time, Sveta arrived to the pool, sporting a classy one-piece at the moment. Dipping her feet into the water, she just stared at her hands, waiting on Martha.]

Spam

[toldastory]

[Martha met Sveta at the pool, and she was also rocking the one piece, with a pair of shorts over them that covered the scar on her thigh. She was a bit worried about this meeting really, after everything that had happened, but her friend just looked so miserable, she couldn't not make the offer. She waved a bit when she walked in, and then dropped her towel on one of the chairs before sitting beside her.]

Hi.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

Hello. [She forced a smile, but it really wasn't Martha this time. Her feelings were still hurt over the whole issue, but she had other things to make her miserable.]

Did I miss anything while I was gone?

Spam

[toldastory]

Not really. It was quiet mostly.

[Martha smiled briefly, because while it had been quiet in general on the Barge, it hadn't been particularly quiet for her. But that was beside the point.]

Do you need to talk about it? [After all, Martha was a good listener, and she was good at being non-judgmental mostly.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

No. [It was said much too quickly and she flinched at the sound of her own voice.]

I've talked enough about it.

Spam

[toldastory]

[Martha worried about the flinch, and she quickly placed her hand on her friend's arm.]

Okay, we don't need to talk about it then.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

[Sveta nodded and slipped into the water.]

Tell me what's happened since I left. I don't care if it's mundane.

Spam

[toldastory]

[Martha considered for a moment, and she thought of things that were light and amusing and just easy. So, she started at what she thought was the best place.]

Well, I think you left before Biff showed up to the party. I was only there for a moment before. But the next morning, he woke up on the network. Literally, just woke up right there on the network.

[Martha slipped off the side into the water, and she went under it, bobbing up slowly so that she acclimated to the temperature. After a second, she continued her story.] So, he comes on, and his hair, his whole hair is neon pink.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

[Sveta began to giggle slightly.]

Really? Was he able to get rid of it?

Spam

[toldastory]

That's not even the half of it, though.

[Martha grinned a bit more.]

The first thing we see are his finger nails, and they're bright red. Like fire engine emergency light red. And then we see his face and he's wearing all of the eye makeup on the barge. I'm thinking it was tubes and tubes of the stuff. Shadow, eye liner and mascara.

The best bit?

[Martha swam a bit closer to her friend.]

It was only on one eye.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

Oh no! [She giggled again, moving back so that she could lean against the edge of the shallow end.]

That's so funny! It sounds like he had a good night.

Spam

[toldastory]

I expect he did, considering I think he may have woken up with Molly.

[Martha laughed quickly, and then she shrugged.]

At least it's a step up from Randal.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

[Her jaw dropped slightly.] Biff...and Molly? [She shook her head at that.] Wow.

Spam

[toldastory]

He'd be good to her, I think. [She paused for a moment before she shook her head.]

He would be, really.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

You would know better than me. [She smiled.]

Re: Spam

[toldastory]

Biff's adorable and uncomplicated. I expect it'll do them both a bit of good.

[Martha paused for a moment, thinking of other light things.]

Arthur showed up, were you there for that part?

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

...no. Did he wake up having slept with someone? [She was starting to think this might be a trend.]

Spam

[toldastory]

I don't know if he did or not. But he shows up, wanders right in and everyone is really very drunk at that point. So he sees Sarah, who announces that he's here to act as entertainment. Then people start wooting and whistling and cat-calling and Sarah just points to the bar and is trying to get him to strip on it.

Spam

[greatlightother.livejournal.com]

[Sveta giggled and hauled herself up to the ledge again.]

Did he?