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[countthecats]

Leave a message, and try not to bore me.

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[hippie_ninja]

It's not that simple. You have to go somewhere.

So what are you good at?

[countthecats]

I see. Well, that's too bad for you. I'm not working for my abductor.

[hippie_ninja]

I'm not asking you to work for the Admiral, I'm asking you to get out of my way.

There are other places that won't care if you do nothing.

[countthecats]

Oh? And when I get there I suppose you can guarantee I won't have someone wasting my time trying to get me to cooperate like a good little captive?

[hippie_ninja]

If you go to B, I think he'll leave you alone. He takes care of the animals on his own already, I think he'd be annoyed if you came in trying to change anything.

[countthecats]

Think or know? Because I don't care which one of you is pestering me, and I'm disinclined to make the effort to change anything for a maybe.

[hippie_ninja]

If you don't care if he pesters you, then it doesn't matter if you're on his roster. Should be an easy change.

[countthecats]

Seems to me like you're asking me to do extra work for quite possibly nothing to change. You're going to have to offer me a better deal than that.

[hippie_ninja]

How about I tell B you're on his roster, and you can keep doing nothing?

[countthecats]

[A pause.]

So I don't need to do anything?

[hippie_ninja]

I think you need to officially tell the admiral you're not in custodial anymore. But I can pay you for that effort?

[countthecats]

Pay? In what? [You have his attention.]

[hippie_ninja]

We don't have much in the way of currency so... Food?

[countthecats]

Hmm. [Boring, but potentially acceptable.]

What do you have to offer that the dining hall doesn't?

[hippie_ninja]

I take requests. The dining hall can't.

[countthecats]

Can you get tuna? Salmon?

[Look, a cat's gotta cat.]

[hippie_ninja]

I think I can manage that. Raw or cooked? I'm actually not bad at sushi.

[countthecats]

That would depend entirely on how fresh it is, wouldn't it.

[As if he's never eaten fish guts out of a dumpster.]

[hippie_ninja]

Well I think I can get it fresh enough I'll have to kill it myself.

[countthecats]

I'd like to see that.

We are on a spaceship, I'll remind you.

[hippie_ninja]

[a coy grin] I have my ways.

[countthecats]

Really.

Fine. You get me fresh, raw tuna and we have a deal. [He has to see this.]