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Sixth Dispatch | Action
[Since her return, Effie hasn't been up to talking over the journals. Mostly she's been listening and trying to recover -- locked away in Katniss's house until Jack Horner returned, and then locked away in Horner's house. She hasn't wanted to be around people -- not with her face and much of her body still sporting some pretty vicious-looking scars.
In Capitolista culture, scars are just about the death-knell to any self-respecting woman's social life, career -- you name it.
Today, though, she is going to venture out to pick up some walnut-free cookies for Jack and some clementines for Clementine and some romance novels for herself. Bodice-rippers. Real smutty, steamy stuff that's perfect for escapism, even if one can only escape for a few hours per book. It's worth it.
Find her at the library and the grocery store. She will be wearing a cloak pulled almost all the way over her face, a scarf around the lower half of her face, and elbow-length gloves; tall boots and tights cover any evidence of violence on her legs. She's trying not to draw attention to herself, though she is wearing complete make-up and bright green wig.]
In Capitolista culture, scars are just about the death-knell to any self-respecting woman's social life, career -- you name it.
Today, though, she is going to venture out to pick up some walnut-free cookies for Jack and some clementines for Clementine and some romance novels for herself. Bodice-rippers. Real smutty, steamy stuff that's perfect for escapism, even if one can only escape for a few hours per book. It's worth it.
Find her at the library and the grocery store. She will be wearing a cloak pulled almost all the way over her face, a scarf around the lower half of her face, and elbow-length gloves; tall boots and tights cover any evidence of violence on her legs. She's trying not to draw attention to herself, though she is wearing complete make-up and bright green wig.]
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[And she was. In spite of Effie's insistence that everything would be fine, letting her leave with the Malnosso hadn't sat well with Bulla at all. And now she's all covered up like this... It makes Bulla wonder.]
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I've been busy at Jack's place. [She explains this with a careless toss of her green-wigged head.] He...needs me. How are you?
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[Bulla doesn't really want to talk about the injuries she had, either. Said injuries are part of the reason she has no idea what happened to Effie. She'd been recovering from being impaled through the shoulder by cultists before. But maybe Effie will feel more comfortable talking about what happened to her if Bulla shares first. ]
I'm much better than I was in August. I was hurt by cultists from the Third Party.
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[But...Cultists.]
Ah....I was gone in August. I'm sorry.
[Whether she's apologizing for being kidnapped or for Bulla's injuries remains a mystery.]
You seem well now, though.
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[There’s a pretty big age gap between the Brief siblings, really.]
It’s okay, Effie. You got to miss a really strange shift where our memories were messed with thanks to that Zompano creep. The cultists attacked when everyone started getting their memories back. Luckily, my friend Sakura is a healer, so I recovered pretty quickly after she came over to help me.
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I see...
Is Zompano dead now?
I laughed. Oh, Effie XD
[She can only hope that his cost of coming back was the loss of something significant that will keep him from being a problem for some time.]
xD
[That was probably out of the question now.]
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[Hers weren't even that bad compared to some people's...aside from the awkwardness of having her boyfriend in that fake reality cheating on her with another guy.]
There are way better people to work for than a psycho like him.
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[Bulla still doesn't think that's a great idea, but.]
Maybe you could point out to the Malnosso that it's kind of pointless to bring in people from other worlds to act as a military force and then cut their power in half.
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It's very hard for one to work her way in with them.
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Unfortunately, they seem to have made up their minds about having everyone here as a potential military force.
[And for experimentation, but Bulla's tactful enough not to bring that up. She doesn't know what had happened to Effie, courtesy of being out of commission at the time that Effie was put on display.]
If you're ever drafted, maybe you'll have your chance to prove your organizational skills to the Malnosso so you can help without having to fight.
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...Does your brother fight?
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[She considers where he's at now for a moment. Trunks is still a competent fighter.]
He's still definitely in the top ten strongest fighters, even with sacrificing a lot of his training in favour of his job.
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[In fact, she's wondering if they could grab a Malnosso droid and reprogram it...]
It's nice having a brother. There's a big age gap between us, but we get along.
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[Run away, Bulla.]
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[Effie's enthusiasm makes Bulla a little concerned.]
I'll have to talk to him and see when he's available.
[And subtly encourage him to not be available.]