what's left to protect [personal prompts + OTA]

[candor1]

WHO: Cassian, Veronica, Kay, Jyn, and YOU!
WHERE: De Chima [closed] + Maurtia Falls [OTA]
WHEN: Over a week, in this order for Cassian, but whenever's best for you!
WHAT: Catch-all log, and 'cause I'm me and have to have a theme, this one is: transitioning from HOPE to Haven.
WARNINGS:

1. exposition: Maurtia Falls [images + full descriptions for setting of #5]

2. De Chima 003 [closed to Veronica Sawyer]

3. De Chima 003 backyard [closed to K-2SO]

4. De Chima woods [closed to Jyn Erso]

5. Maurtia Falls, sidewalk [multithread OTA!]

Comments

c/w eating disorders

[candor1]

Have at it. Cassian eats too little; eating terribly might even be an improvement. (Until it made him sick from uncustomary levels of richness. His first month undercover on Coruscant had everyone assuming Joreth Sward had an eating disorder. ...Which, probably, yes, but not in the way that that manifestation would have been on purpose.)

"Was it?" asked Cassian reflexively, a bit grimly. The correct assumption was never but...

On the lighter note: "Not to human ears at least."

[couldbebeautiful]

She huffs out a breath and shakes her head. "No, his dad was hanging off of a cliff while there was a stampede going and his uncle stabbed him in the paws with his claws." It sounds ridiculous now in summary, but it had been deeply, horribly tragic when Veronica had seen it.

There's a moment's silence, during which the trio on-screen start slurping up bugs and worms. Veronica very slowly turns to look at Cassian.

"How do you know that?" Oh god, now she's gonna be staying up late thinking it over now. Can animals sing? What do they sing about? Why is she thinking about this?

[candor1]

It doesn't sound ridiculous in summary… Cassian is glad he came in to the vid after that event.

He's actually smiling a bit at the animation (nice prosocially adaptive survival technique). Looks at her in some surprise at the question. Know what? Reels his mind back from the vid to their conversation.

—Oh. Yes. He usually corrects for it but it's a common miscommunication across the divide between methodology training and not, definitely not unique to Veronica: taking a negative as a presumptive.

"I don't know that they do. I just meant we have insufficient information to rule it out. We can only accurately assess that they don't sing in a way we understand."

To lighten (or at least make less technical) the moment, he tilted his head back to the screen. "This currently being my sole point of reference for the species, I possibly have worse odds at accuracy than if I blindly guessed."

…that was less technical?