thirteen. voice. your blood, your bones, your voice, & your ghost.

[indispensible]

[This worked last time. Vin isn't even sure if she liked it, but the temptation is too great to pass up a second time.]

If you're not dead or on the Barge already, I want to hear you. I'm here. I'm not dead.

[For the moment.]

Comments

[wasing]

Vin?

[indispensible]

. . . Hi.

[Look at him, look how not dead he is, this is great.]

[wasing]

Vin! What-- how--

I knew it. I did. I knew you had to be alive, somehow.

[indispensible]

I wasn't. I just am now.

Is everything green? Is it true?

[surfaceshine]

[Hey look, someone who knows how to smile.]

Hey, sweetheart. You should raise your standards a bit, you never know what the asshole'll drag in.

[indispensible]

Oh. It's you.

[She knows how to smile, too. See? Just like this.]

You don't look dead, either. That's good.

[surfaceshine]

It's me, and we're both not dead yet. We should have a fucking party.

[indispensible]

It's hard to have a party when we're both in different places, I think.

[manshutthehellup]

"I'm not dead", in my experience, is always a positive start.

Far as I know, I'm not either. And last I checked I'm pretty certain I'm not on this "barge". So where does that leave me, in your opinion?

[indispensible]

[She considers this.]

Somewhere else.

Somewhere better, probably.

[manshutthehellup]

Well admittedly, I've got no complaints. But that's to be expected.

I'm Sam, Sam Wilson. What's your name?

[indispensible]

Vin Venture. Do you know where I am?

[utopiasdaughter]

I'm not dead either. Or on a barge.

[indispensible]

Good.

Who are you?

[utopiasdaughter]

My name is Jessica Hyde. [And she's going to have to run soon, steal a car and keep moving, just in case this is a monitored transmission and the Network picked up her name. But not quite yet.] And you?

[indispensible]

Vin Venture.

Where are you if you're not here, or dead? [There are thousands of worlds. She doesn't know about enough of them.]

[neuropathy]

Hey.

[ Yes. Hey. ...at least he's probably not a pod person? ]

[indispensible]

[!!!!!!!!!!!]

Nathan! Where are you? Are you safe?

[WHAT DUMB THING DID YOU DO]

[theverysoulofgoodness]

I'm not dead.

[A quirk of her mouth.]

At present.

[indispensible]

Are you expecting to be?

[theverysoulofgoodness]

Eventually. I've had a here and there relationship with Tartarus.

[indispensible]

Tartarus?

[onlysurvivor]

Vin! Tell me everything. Even the bad parts.

[indispensible]

. . . That's a lot of things, Kelsier.

[onlysurvivor]

Tell me anyway. Pick one to start with.