tushanshu | [audio]

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[Her tone is blunt, sharp, faintly accented. No preamble.]

We are here to fight a war. How many of you are remotely prepared?

[She's guessing like three. But then again, she has high standards for preparedness.]

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[It's startling, but not particularly scary. And he's not going to give her the satisfaction of seeming the least bit fazed by it.]

So don't leave any soup can lids lying around. Got it.

[Pissing Off Dangerous People: A Biography.]

But, seriously, are you taking stock of non-combat skills too? Or just who can hold their own in a fight?

[That actually gets a smile. It's a singularly unpleasant expression. Lucky you with that audio feed, Dick.]

I've graduated from soup cans.

[That is a low-pitched purr.]

I'm not interested in non-combative skills that do not pertain to field medicine. Most people who cannot fight will die.

To what? Knives, guns, tanks, rocket launchers?

[He might seem facetious, but he's actually taking stock of her skills and getting a sense of how technologically advanced her world is. #Batlife]

Hm. What about communications, supply lines, stuff like that? You need people to do stuff like that, right?

Edited 2013-06-08 23:52 (UTC)

That would be telling.

[In a word: anything. Aisha could murder someone with the pull tab of a popcan if she were so inclined.]

Theoretically. But I do not care to have a hand in the planning of such things.

[She figured him out. :( No fair.]

Hmm. I'm sure there are other people who would.

['Don't know how much prep time we have but if we make some modifications to the infrastructure...']

Anyway, I can't fight, but I'm good at disappearing when there's trouble. You learn to pretty quickly where I'm from.

Edited 2013-06-10 02:46 (UTC)

That is not useful to me.

[Just saying.]

Anyone can hide.

Better to hide than get in the way of people who are actually trained to fight.

I will not argue that.

I'll see if someone else might need my skills-- the ones other than hiding. Good luck with your search, though.

[WHATEVER CHILD she is totally hanging up now.]

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