Outside MCA #4, Wednesday Evening

[electrocynic]

Sarah had had a lot of time to be thinking some things over, lately. Especially over the back end of last week, which had been complete and utter bollocks by the way, because trying to smoke on the balcony was not easy when you risked getting bitten by flying fucking sharks in the process of just trying to get your nicotine fix.

So, anyway.

She'd had a lot of time to think, and she was veering closer and closer to a a decision.

Except that was a lie, kind of, because she'd more or less already made up her mind. And that meant one thing: checking in with some people who weren't Jenny and therefore weren't going to just relentlessly gush at her for being so romantic or some other bullshit like that.

And so, armed with far too much beer, she knocked on the door across the hall from hers.

With her foot. Because, see above about all the beer. She had her hands full, so, kicking it was.

[ooc: For them dudes that live here! Up early for SP and timezoney justice]

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[myownface]

After the weekend they'd had and a day and some change spent on Arrakis riding sandworms with Leto, Sparkle's heart really couldn't take much more in the way of loud thumping sounds. Which would be why he kind of yelped and fumbled his nail polish before realizing that it was the door.

Okay. Not a shark. Not gonna get squished by a worm.

It was a pretty pleasant surprise when he opened the door to see that it was, in fact, not even something that would try to eat him.

"Oh hey!" A beat. "And armed with beer? C'mon in."

[electrocynic]

"It's necessary." For what? Sarah wasn't going to say (yet), it just was. "Thanks."

She made her way in the door, trying to shift a sixpack into Sparkle's hands in the process. "You didn't get a shark through the window, did you?"

Just checking. This was her caring about people.

[myownface]

"Not here, nah," Sparkle said, accepting the beer and moving to go set it on the coffee table. "The clothing shop took a bad hit, though. Two of them through the windows and all the merch along the way."

Stupid sharks.

[suitably_heroic]

"For a while there I was thinking about getting on the roof and Force throwing a bunch of 'em back," Atton called from deep within the living room. "Just to be sure."

[myownface]

"You just didn't want sharks smacking into the Hawk," Sparkle called back, and then nodded for Sarah to follow him in. Not that he didn't figure she would be quite happy to make herself at home anyway. "... I totally would've cheered you on, though. Fucking sharks."

He had a grudge against them, now.

[electrocynic]

Yeah, Sarah would've been good with just wandering on further in on her own, but it was nice to actually be treated like a guest for a second. No clue if she'd ever really be visiting again.

"Fucking sharks," she agreed as she entered the living room. "One of the fuckers tried to get in through the balcony door."

[suitably_heroic]

"Hey, hey, would I be that shallow?" Atton said. "That ship made it through Malachor V imploding, it can take any sharks."

Beat.

"Though those would've scratched the paint."

He waved lazily at Sarah.

[myownface]

"Can't have that," Sparkle snorted, and then grinned Sarah's way. "So, uh, make yourself comfortable? I was going to ask if you wanted anything, but it looks like refreshments are on you tonight."

Mmmm, beeeeer.

[electrocynic]

"Yeah. I brought beer and bad life decisions."

She shifted the beers onto the coffee table, then moved to flop onto the couch – though obviously not before grabbing a beer for herself.

[suitably_heroic]

"So we get the beer first," Atton said, leaning forward to pry a beer out of the six pack. "How bad are these life decisions? You know the history this apartment has with bad life decisions, right?" Beat. "It's bad."

[electrocynic]

Sarah couldn't help a quiet snort. "What the fuck do you think I came here for, space boy?" she rasped. "Talking to people who make good decisions would be bloody pointless."

[myownface]

"So, you're looking for enablers?" Sparkle grinned a little, pulling a beer out for himself and opening it before adding, "I can't speak for Atton, but I promise, I can be a really good enabler."

It went really well with all his own bad decisions!

[suitably_heroic]

"Just as long as this doesn't involve anything exploding, zombies, or drinking vodka after midnight," Atton said, opening up his beer. "... Or gizka."

[electrocynic]

"I don't know what the fuck that last one is," Sarah volunteered. Then she shrugged, with a thoughtful pull from her bottle. "Explosions, maybe, but too far away for either of you to have to mind."

[myownface]

"Gizka are these cute little two-legged frog things that Atton has informed me I'm not allowed to keep as pets," Sparkle volunteered. And then blinked and kind of frowned thoughtfully at that next bit. "... Going on a trip somewhere?"

[suitably_heroic]

"... You're not running off to go to war or anything, are you?"

Way to put him on alert, Sarah.

[electrocynic]

Sarah rolled her eyes at the both of them.

"War's been over for a long time," she drawled. Because, yeah, war was why Guy had taken off in the first place. "Nah. I think I'm going to Oa."

A beat.

"That's across space."

Yeah, that wasn't going to help them figure it out, was it? Probably not.

[myownface]

"Across space, like, for the scenery, then?"

At least it wasn't war? Sparkle blinked and squinted a little.

"Wait, you mean you're leaving leaving?"

[electrocynic]

Oh hey! There was something about this that could actually make Sarah a little uncomfortable. Even if it only showed mildly.

And would only show in this company.

"Yeah," she said, after what may have been slightly too long a pause.

[suitably_heroic]

"... Like how far?" Atton said.

He wasn't going to admit to the length of the stunned silence that had prefaced that comment.

[myownface]

"Space is really big," Sparkle added, a bit stunned as well.

That was about the only coherent thought he could scrape together.

[electrocynic]

Sarah made a face. And then made an attempt at sort of cradling her beer to herself. Or like she was just trying to sink into the couch. "I don't know fucking far Oa is," she said. "Far enough that people don't really come back and visit unless they really need to, is what I've noticed."

[suitably_heroic]

"So how is ditching here to go all the way over in 'I don't know how far' planet worth it?" Atton said, sitting forward.

[myownface]

"There, like, has to be something you're ditching for," Sparkle hedged. "You don't just decide to get up and go to fuck only knows where just because... right?"

[electrocynic]

"Obviously."

Probably unfair to be that 'duh' about it when she hadn't actually given them jack shit to go on, here. And yet she did it anyway because...

Well, because she was Sarah, and didn't really know of another way to be.

She drank a long gulp, then muttered, only half-intelligibly, "I'm going to go see Guy."