Wellspring Arms & Meditation Center, Wednesday

[dubstepthanos]

It had been a long few days, though Cable was not going to tell anyone what he did or what he had to kill to return Wellspring Arms to something of a manageable state. Nor did he tell anyone about what he found in the back, or what he was planning to do with it.

No, he simply strode outside on Wednesday morning, hung a cheerfully rustic 'Come in, we're open' sign on the door below the NOW HIRING sign, and patted the door.

Then he slipped right back inside.

Wellspring Arms & Meditation Center was open for business.

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[dubstepthanos]

She did.

Cable was sat in a chair behind the counter, newspaper in hand.

If he noticed her, he didn't show.

Re: The Counter

[okteiviakom]

It was all the primitive-looking leathers, wasn't it?

Octavia didn't mind not being immediately greeted, or even acknowledged. Honestly, she preferred it that way.

She looked around in silence for a moment. Then, without preamble, she said, idly looking at something or other, "This shop always made more sense to me than any of the others on the island."

Re: The Counter

[dubstepthanos]

"Makes sense to me too," Cable said idly.

He turned the page in the paper.

"Funny thing it stood empty for this long."

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[okteiviakom]

"Well, this island's pretty quiet for the most part."

By Octavia's standards. There'd been a lot more shooting where she was from.

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[dubstepthanos]

"Never quiet for that long," Cable pointed out. "Going by the archives."

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia shrugged. "I'm going by how there isn't a war going on between groups of people who live here permanently."

If she'd been familiar with the term 'your mileage may vary', she probably would've used it.

"It's more like long stretches of quiet followed by a brief threat from the outside." And she should've preferred that. And, yet.

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[dubstepthanos]

"No war," Cable agreed. "But between political terrorism, economic decline, and climate change, this place is fucking itself right into the ground, from a certain perspective."

He shrugged, flipping a page in the newspaper. "But that's not as exciting as war."

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[okteiviakom]

"I don't care about those things."

Liar. Or at least, it wasn't that simple.

She was still looking around the store. Didn't seem that different from when Bellamy had worked here, but then, Octavia had probably only visited once or twice.

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[dubstepthanos]

"You should," Cable said idly. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

He was studying an article about the importance of trees to agriculture.

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[okteiviakom]

"Climate survived just fine where I'm from." Kind of! It fared better than people, at least. She finally looked towards the counter. "Do you have any knives? I know it's a gun store, but a weapon's a weapon."

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[dubstepthanos]

"You ever heard that line about taking a knife to a gun fight?" Cable asked.

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[okteiviakom]

"Yes," she replied, "but I think the people who say that have never heard of stabbing the people with guns in the back before they realize what's happening."

That was a good use of a matter-of-fact kind of tone, she felt.

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[dubstepthanos]

"Easier to just shoot them in the back, diminishes the risk," Cable pointed out.

He was a simple, firearms-loving man.

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia shrugged again.

"Killing shouldn't be easy."

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[dubstepthanos]

Cable thought of Wade for a moment - wondered how Russell was doing for an idle second.

"It shouldn't," he agreed. "But sometimes it has to be."

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia agreed. But he'd have to infer that from her face in the brief moment that some expression of recognition crossed it. Because she wasn't saying as much.

She seemed to shrug it off.

"So, knives?"

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[dubstepthanos]

"Not yet," Cable said. "Waiting for more stock."

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia didn't shrug again. But her demeanor conveyed the same sentiment anyway.

"Guess I'll have to come back, then."

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[dubstepthanos]

"Guess you'll have to," Cable agreed. "Look forward to seeing you again."

Flick of the page. "Hm. Crossword."

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia had no witty retort. But those weren't really her thing to begin with.

"Leida," she said. And left.