SKREEEEE!

[strangerpeople]

SKREEEEE!

[It's about three o'clock when the train suddenly hears something like the cry of a crow. It's not coming from inside the train, either; it's coming from the outside.

Almost instantly, the speaker system comes to life, and the Conductor's voice echoes through the cars.]

Attention, all passengers and crew! We are under attack. Please come to armaments if you are willing. Otherwise, please congregate in the lounge for your own safety. Immediately, please.

I will meet those of you coming to the weapons.

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[unwittingking]

[Okay, he was just going to mind his own business, get off of RGB, get back to the lounge and check on Minato, but then he hears this and is just-]

Are you telling me we're probably going to have to do this regularly?!?

[Doggo no happy on his living television footstool.]

[disregartist]

There's a possibility of it. This is the High Wilderness, after all. What-did you think it was a vacuum of emptiness in which nothing lived?

[unwittingking]

Yes, I was, because if there are giant space monsters out there, why are you keeping us on a train that's flying through space?!?

[Hopefully RGB is steady cause he's moving around quite a bit while yelling all of this.]

[disregartist]

[A sigh.]

Goodness, you must never leave your house for fear of being mauled by a tiger!

[unwittingking]

[Well now she's purposely getting on his nerve!]

And you must go on death defying adventures so much that you can't even remember where half your scars came from!

[...he's trying his best to insult her, okay?]

[disregartist]

[A raised eyebrow.]

And that is supposed to be upsetting, how?

[unwittingking]

I'm saying that you being alive is an insult to everything that's tried to kill you and I am on the side of those beings!

[Does that work better?]

[disregartist]

...

[There is something in her eyes, her expression, at this. Something ugly, something dark.

Then...she laughs, at this. It's a harsh laugh.

Maybe that did sting, a little.]

Good. I'm glad I'm such an affront, then!

[unwittingking]

[He noticed that. And though he'll just stay silent and glare at her, he congratulates himself on insulting her like that, just a little.]