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[athenaie]

ATHENA (???) Former Assassin for the Atlas Corporation and responsible for it's utter annihilation on Pandora. Why am I even bothering? This is stupid.

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[machinamentum]

'Sup sup.

yeah neither. I've got the apartment they set us up with?

But it's kind of. weird. being alone? Everything's so...

[ Nice, but no that's the wrong word. Quiet, maybe. That's not right either. But it leaves her itching, unable to sleep. Body clock ticking over wearily because there's no gun to reach for and she's nervous and twitchy and unable to settle. It's the missing people, sure, but it's more than that. She might not having Athena's background, she came from a good home, a loving family.

But Pandora had made her again as something else, like it did with everyone, and it didn't exactly leave her dealing with this sudden being adrift very well. ]

[athenaie]

[ It's a sentence she doesn't have to finish, one Athena can understand without the end of it. Even with her own weapons at had she feels uneasy. Body wound tight like a spring just waiting for release upon something. Skag, bandit, any sign of danger it didn't matter what.

She never thought the feeling of safety would be so uncomfortable. ]

How many rooms are there?

[machinamentum]

[ There's a relief on her end, understood, doesn't need to be explained and a line of tension goes out of her shoulders as she types back. ]

Uh, it's kind of just a one room sort of deal but it's pretty big and there's a couch? Could find another bed pretty easy I think if we look.

[ hard to gauge because she's been living with the crimson raiders, and that's just bunk beds in a big room. All her living needs strapped to her back and arm with no privacy really to speak of. Not that it mattered, fighting day in day out, hardly like she had time in between all that to really feel that loss. ]

[athenaie]

I've slept in worse.

[ As long as there is a roof over her head and another body to watch her back when she closes her eyes, Athena is fine with it. ]

[machinamentum]

I know right? They just give you this shit here, it's insane.

[ She isn't even sure if she can bring herself to trust it. There's gotta be some kind of surprise bandit attack here somewhere right? Right??? ]

[athenaie]

Yeah, I'm surprised I haven't had to shoot anyone for anything yet.

[ Which might be a joke? Maybe? Or the honest truth. They do a lot of that after all. Shoot people for stuff. ]

[machinamentum]

I KNOW RIGHT.

[ It is and it isn't. Even they were even slightly more self aware they'd probably realized how messed up that made them, buuuuut. ]

It's all so.............




nice.

[athenaie]

It's unsettling.

[machinamentum]

I am going to try and find work asap. Maybe I'll stop feeling so weird about it.

[athenaie]

If you hear anyone who needs someone to knock a few heads let me know, okay?

[machinamentum]

You'll be the first person I call.

Oh, heads up. I ran into some Hyperion guy that says he knows you?

[athenaie]

[ Technically there is two, though the other would have warranted a likely more dramatic comment. That leaves only ─ ]

You've met Rhys then.

[machinamentum]

[ Thankfully for Timothy's sake, and probably everyone else's in the near vicinity, she hasn't seen him. ]

Yeah. Said he works for like... deals or stuff on Helios. He was acting kinda weird though. But I figured if he knows you and he ran into Zer0 and hadn't died, he couldn't have been too bad?

[athenaie]

He's harmless. [ That's what she wants to hear, isn't it? ] A little odd, out of his depth, but harmless. He has more of a chance of injuring himself than he does hurting anyone else.

[machinamentum]

[ That's right on the money. Okay, good. Nothing bad then. ]

Yeah I was getting that impression. He was really weird about killing people for someone whose wrapped up in the vaults. How long has he even been on Pandora because eeeesh???

[athenaie]

From what I can tell he stumbled on the Vault stuff more than sought it out. It hasn't been long at all, he still punches with his real hand.

[machinamentum]

Eh, that sounds about right.

Wait, seriously? Oh my god, how is he still ALIVE?

[athenaie]

Dumb luck. And he isn't alone.

[machinamentum]

He's got you so I guess there's that right????

I hope you charged eridium by the freaking bucket for this job.

[athenaie]

He has others. I wouldn't call them friends but two of them know a thing or two about surviving. I wouldn't be surprised if they are the whole reason he's still breathing.

Thought about it.

[machinamentum]

Needing to survive brings all kinds of people together on Pandora, I guess.

ERrrrg. I remember once I had to take a fire skag for a walk? Not. Enough. Money.

[athenaie]

A fire skag? Really?

[machinamentum]

It was a personal favour. It's really hard to tell Tina no about anything, and she loved Enrique like a whole lot. She needed us to take him for a walk and make sure nothing like. killed him. because you know.

skag.

[athenaie]

Did you actually manage it?

[machinamentum]

Yeap. Job's a job, and she'd be really upset if we didn't.