This is Ashari being friendly! And Sasha, well, Mikodez has gotten that look from the guard who oversaw the bloc with the best vending machines, the night of the last New Year. Is she concentrating on reading an augment?
"I walked through the door and there you all were -- no. It started when Instructor Hadhair called me out from analysis class --" He describes the interview he had with three individuals, going into appropriate detail about them and the few questions they asked, but eliding the remark one made about his family. "... explained I could earn extra credit for the next quarter if I took part in an exercise where a variable signifier like mine could be of use, even if I'm not in the right track." He isn't explaining Shuos Jedao unless someone asks.
"I didn't see if anyone else was taken from class after me," he adds virtuously, a weak blind to cover his suspicions about what Istradez confessed. "Then I was taken to a boxmoth, empty for its size, met two people dressed as Rahal on board, and they could have been. Very boring. The journey took two weeks, five days, before the moth stopped for another few hours, probably the rift effect, not that I could tell without a view. The only person I saw after that didn't answer my questions, brought me to a holding room where I stayed for three days or so, and showed me to the Wasp's hangar, and Sasha knows what I did from there."
What he said is true, but Mikodez has something to hide now with Istradez, even if he's acting as honest as he ever gets. "Believe me as you like, but I didn't actually get instructions. It must be enough that I'm here." Mikodez listens to himself, aghast, as he continues, "Or at least not there." He keeps his expression placid with an effort. There was no reason to add the last sentence.
[The Mishka of now is suspicious of the Shuos above the level of a generic (paranoid) student, because he trusts what Istradez said to some extent, subconsciously due to those injuries. He's also willing to relax into the enthrallment if it gets him into the crew's good graces (read me trying to align myself with the plot >-<) despite the risk.]
Re: the joys of mutual understanding
"I walked through the door and there you all were -- no. It started when Instructor Hadhair called me out from analysis class --" He describes the interview he had with three individuals, going into appropriate detail about them and the few questions they asked, but eliding the remark one made about his family. "... explained I could earn extra credit for the next quarter if I took part in an exercise where a variable signifier like mine could be of use, even if I'm not in the right track." He isn't explaining Shuos Jedao unless someone asks.
"I didn't see if anyone else was taken from class after me," he adds virtuously, a weak blind to cover his suspicions about what Istradez confessed. "Then I was taken to a boxmoth, empty for its size, met two people dressed as Rahal on board, and they could have been. Very boring. The journey took two weeks, five days, before the moth stopped for another few hours, probably the rift effect, not that I could tell without a view. The only person I saw after that didn't answer my questions, brought me to a holding room where I stayed for three days or so, and showed me to the Wasp's hangar, and Sasha knows what I did from there."
What he said is true, but Mikodez has something to hide now with Istradez, even if he's acting as honest as he ever gets. "Believe me as you like, but I didn't actually get instructions. It must be enough that I'm here." Mikodez listens to himself, aghast, as he continues, "Or at least not there." He keeps his expression placid with an effort. There was no reason to add the last sentence.
[The Mishka of now is suspicious of the Shuos above the level of a generic (paranoid) student, because he trusts what Istradez said to some extent, subconsciously due to those injuries. He's also willing to relax into the enthrallment if it gets him into the crew's good graces (read me trying to align myself with the plot >-<) despite the risk.]