maskormenace | 💣 007

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[Alfie bounces from the Swear-In after about half an hour, long before the explosion in the Heaven Scent gazebo. But the dispersal is fast, and the effects reach him eventually, in some way or another. He spends about half a day trying to make sense of what's happened - accustoming himself to the new intensity of his emotions, and working out where to draw the line between what's real and what's manufactured. Hitting the network isn't his first instinct here, but when he takes a peek and sees that people are being fairly quiet about it, he takes the dive.]

It's a curious thing, being mind-controlled and knowing it. Can't say I've ever had that happen before. It's easier to sort out than I would have thought - you take what you feel today and what you felt yesterday and compare them. Simple enough.

What I wanna know, right, is why everyone is so fucking intent on getting our blood and cells. Is this normal for the future?

[He doesn't actually suspect the government here, for once - he figures if they wanted these things from them, they would have taken them on arrival, before they woke up. But still, it doesn't sit well with him.]

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The use of technology to map and track people is fairly standard, and considering our status it doesn't surprise me at all. I'd keep a close guard...

...though the impairment has its problems too.

Have you had any mishaps yet?

I've been careful to largely keep to myself. Avoiding my friends seems to do the trick, but I know it's not an ideal solution.

And you?

Haven't let my flat all day.

Probably the wisest course, though I see that this business is affecting long distance communications too.

We're more inclined to spill our guts to the wide world than usual, and that's saying something.

Yeah. But I've found I can still control myself. I feel as if I want to, but I can make the choice not to.

And that's crucial---it could certainly be worse. But it's not likely to get worse unless we're exposed again, or if we go in for that treatment.

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( is 'cut glass princess' the accent alfie expected from this argumentative potty-mouth? ... yeah, probably, after the cosmpolitan upbringing she described. )

I mean, I think my doctor had more of my blood than I did, when I was little.

[And Alfie, for his part, is a very mumbly Cockney.]

Were you often ill?

I don't remember being ill, but I went to the doctor a lot. There were a lot of tests. I don't think anything really came of it, Daddy just eventually asked me if I wanted to stop going and we stopped going.

( she knows why, now; her father still doesn't. this is fine. )

But there's like a hundred things. Everything wants your fingerprints now, and I saw an advert once that wanted you to mail someone your wee to have it tested for health and like, what the fuck is that. Don't mail anyone your wee.