002 🔥 TEXT - WANTED: WRITER

[headhunt]

Type: Text
Sender ID: headhunt (Karlach)
To: Public
Subject: WANTED: WRITER
Warnings: N/A

need a writer. the kind who can do the big swirly letters with a quill on the parchment.

will pay good coin for services rendered.

contact karlach.


( is she aware she can use the network for more than job postings? it's unclear. )

Comments

text; un: archangel

[thearchangel]

I don't know if anyone could read what I write, without the translator.

But I can keep an eye out for anyone offering fancy writing, if you want.

[headhunt]

because of your original language
or because you suck at it garrus?

[thearchangel]

[WOW KARLACH.]

You know what, I have to be honest. Both.

Probably.

[headhunt]

yeah me too
every language i know looks like shit when i try to put it to paper

was never a teacher's favourite if you know what i mean

[thearchangel]

I hear that. But on the other hand, we always learned typing before penmanship.

You? I'm shocked.

[headhunt]

( snort. )

typing?

like with the shellphones?

guess you would be used to using stuff like this.

[thearchangel]

Yeah, pretty much like this. More higher tech, but same idea.

I'm guessing that puts Shepard and I in the minority though - being used to it.

[headhunt]

we can't all be from space

( jokingly.

but— )

must have been tough getting used to being here instead. can't imagine what that must have been like.

[thearchangel]

No, we can't. You'd fit right in out there, though.

Yeah it's ... been an adjustment. But hey. At least I found some decent people to be around.

[headhunt]

really? you don't think i'd stick out like a sore thumb?
i do everywhere else

i'll tell zelda you only think she's decent

[thearchangel]

I know a few places no one would even bat an eye at you.
Which would mean more if we could actually take you out there someday.

You'd really rat me out? I'm wounded.

[headhunt]

only if it's funny

let's play pretend
say we could. say i could take a trip with you. where would you take us?

[thearchangel]

Fair enough.

Hm... if it's pretending... then...
The Wards - on the Citadel - for starters. Picture a city hundreds of times the size of one of these Leviathans. But it's floating in space. Every species from every race is there. The Presidium is where the rich and the political types stay, but the Wards?

No one would blink at you there.

[headhunt]

( she takes a moment to try and imagine that, but it's difficult to picture a spaceship when she barely knows what one must look like.

ideally nothing like a mind-flayer's spaceship. nothing at all. )

tell me more about the wards
how's it compare to the cities here?

get into plenty of trouble there yourself?

[thearchangel]

They're bigger. Bigger than these Leviathans put together. Buildings tend to get built up, instead of out. So you've got apartments and offices all in one big building. Easy to get lost if you don't know where you're going. You can pretty much buy anything legal.

[Or illegal, in the lowest of the Wards...]

Oh yeah. Technically I was supposed to be preventing the trouble, but... you know how it is.

[headhunt]

up! like towers!
do any vines grow up them?
wait, is there like nature on the spaceships?

[thearchangel]

Not... really?

There's public gardens in a few places in the Wards. Planters and things here and there. Most of it's on the Presidium, though. Where the politicians and wealthy people are.

[headhunt]

( that's incredibly difficult to imagine. )

you like it that way?
or do you like the greenery we have here?

[thearchangel]

I got used to it. Wasn't much of a choice. The Citadel was where the work was.

Where I grew up, though... it was more tropical. More like here. But I've always been more comfortable in cities, personally.

[headhunt]

typical city boy

( she laughs at that. there's nothing surprising about this knowledge. )

tell me about where you grew up

[thearchangel]

Guilty.

[He doesn't answer for a bit. Cipertine - it was a smoldering ruin by now. Just a big smear of orange on the planet. Almost hard to remember it being anything else.]

Warm and tropical. Near the ocean, even if we don't swim, I waded around a lot as a kid. It was always warm, too. Never even saw snow until I went off-planet. You'd... probably have liked the plant life there.

[headhunt]

warm and tropical? that's some of my favourite kinds of weather!

but between you and me
i like just about any weather after knowing what it's like not to have it

wait
you don't swim?

[thearchangel]

Not to have it?
There's no weather where you're from?

No, I don't. I can't - none of my people can. We just sink.