video; mary makes good choices

[momchester]

Where's the Core?

[Mary looks... balanced. And healthy. And happy. And not tense or brittle or on the edge of making horrible life choices. Of course not. No.]

I mean, how do we get to it? Someone has to know. It's probably SERO, at least.

[She tensely lights up a cigarette and sneaks in a short puff, not stopping too long between breaths.]

I've heard things about it being sentient, or- or maybe even alive. I have to know. Doesn't everybody?

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[uberboned]

Are you out of your freakin' mind?

[momchester]

Maybe. Why?

[uberboned]

Because the last time someone screwed with that thing, we got stuck in a frickin' time loop. And they suck when you're on the receiving end.

[momchester]

The one on Groundhog Day? I remember that. It did suck. But I have to. I can't- do this anymore.

[Wow, that was a little more sharing than she needed for this conversation. Deep cleansing breath. This is what filicide does to a person.]

I don't want to "screw" with it. I just want to find a way to communicate.

[uberboned]

You wanna talk to the big scary hunk of radioactive waste?

[momchester]

Yes. Some people think it can think. Maybe if it can think, it can... talk.

[uberboned]

And you don't think if it could, it would have maybe said "hey, I'm stuck in an tangent" when that Groundhog Day crap happened?

[momchester]

I don't know. There must be a thousand million ways to communicate, depending on what you are... maybe the Core is something different. Maybe it tries to communicate, but nobody has understood it yet. We have beings here with absolute power. [Like God. Which Mary doesn't want to talk about. Because what the fuck.] What's stopping us from trying?

[uberboned]

Painful radiation burns? I've seen Jinx's scars. She was there when they uncovered it.

[momchester]

This time we can be ready.

[uberboned]

You're not gonna be talked down from this at all, huh?

[momchester]

No. Gabriel, I'm sick of losing people. I'm sick of other people losing people. Everything here is stagnant- it's time to change it.