aaldana 002.

[adrii]

DOMINGO, NIKOLA, PHILIP.

I am going to be on the ground starting tomorrow for two or three days. I am currently going alone, which Domingo and Nikola disagree with. I am grudgingly open to suggestions on how to increase my security to ease unnecessary worries without an escort.

EVA.

I'm going down to see Mamá tomorrow and will be gone for a few days.

RONEN - after he's agreed to an escort.

I'll be gone for a few days. You're in charge. Don't make me regret it.

Comments

Aldanas

[adrii]

He can have Niko if he wants him.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Very benevolent of you. They’re consenting adults; they’ll figure it out if they wish to.

Aldanas

[adrii]

If they're fucking in my bed, I get a say.

Which reminds me: I need to buy new sheets when we're home.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Wh If that’s happening, the mattress should just be burned.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Mija, all of these beds have been fucked in by others. We don't have the resources to replace them.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

It is the principle, Papá. I must be dramatic about it, and buy aerosol sanitizer while we’re on the ground.

Aldanas

[adrii]

I can't fault you for that.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Because I am perfect, yes.

Aldanas

[adrii]

A perfect pain in my ass, maybe.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

You have no one but yourself to blame.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Absolutely terrible, that truth.

Aldanas - A few hours later.

[adrii]

They are insisting on a third. Your injury is a point of contention, which I'd like to point out I told you.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

My injury is resolved. They can watch me walk if they like.

I can ask Cal.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Philip is insisting he be the one to go.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Well, I can’t say that I’m surprised.

Would he be permitted to leave?

Aldanas

[adrii]

He could probably make a case to Doss.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

If he has the okay to go, I won’t put up a fuss.

You don’t like it.

Aldanas

[adrii]

No.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Then you’re even, I think.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Don't take that tone with me, young lady.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

It’s a written communication, there is no tone.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Eva Rosaliá Aldana Gutiérrez.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Papá.

Aldanas

[adrii]

You are a menace.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

See above.