001: [Video]

[carterbeenbartered]

[Carter turns the camera on and it broadcasts. He doesn't know it's doing this, as he thinks he's just filming a video of himself.]

Entry one. Title: This Place is Fucked Up. Did I mention it's fucked up? Exhibit A, the bathroom--

[Carter swings the camera around and shows the bathroom, which has a wall of shrunken heads. Their eyes roll and they cackle when they see the camera. Carter backs out of the bathroom and closes the door.]

Can you believe that? My door is unlocked, too. What amateur kidnappers. Where's Reefs? He's gonna kill all of you. He's a hard motherfucker. Anytime now. Hey, do you see that?

[The camera flips around to show a Nameless, its mouth stitched shut and carrying a stack of laundry. It passes by the open door to Carter's suite. The teen gasps audibly.]

That guy had a sewn mouth! What the fuck! What the fuck! That is some fucked up Somali-pirate shit!

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[carterbeenbartered]

[Carter shrugged, but it was an awkward thing. What he wished he could do was give Lily assurance that her friend surely knew how dearly he was missed... but the fact was, Carter knew better than anyone that a person could be just 'disappeared' and it would be like they vanished into thin air.

He'd been disappeared as a kid. He'd even gone onto missing kid registries and seen his own picture. That had been a trip, once he was given internet privileges.]

Y'know, I bet if you talk to it, he'll hear.

[He shrugs.]

Maybe.

[dogfighting]

Yeah. Maybe.

[The chances are low, but Lily has definitely seen weirder shit in her short life. She stares at her locket, unsure what to say, then decides to bring it to her lips for a kiss. She lingers for a moment, then drops the locket to hang around her neck and smiles brightly.]

D'you wanna get something to eat? The food court is close by.

[carterbeenbartered]

Yeah, I'm starving.

[Carter's been guarding Lily's body for the past hour or so, so he's been bored and hungry as a horse. Now he knows the ship is safe and they're free to explore--and Lily is healed up and can fight, even if there are were-leopards around.

It's a complicated situation, but Carter is fine with not understanding all the particulars right now. He has a friend, someone who doesn't mind his blissouts, and someone who is worth defending. Well, as much as he can defend.

Carter will do his best.]

Lead the way.

[dogfighting]

[If she knew how long she was out, she'd apologize! Instead, Lily takes Carter to the elevators and punches in deck 6. When they arrive, she leads Carter through the shopping center and to the food court, blah-blah-blahing about it as she goes. The more she talks about the boat, the less she has to talk about her feelings.]

You can get pretty much anything. Any kind of food. It's not... Uh, the food at the restaurant is better, but this stuff is still pretty good! [She points to a specific food stall.] I like the Indian stuff.