The One With One Head [Video]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[Scrad is looking angry. And alone. No backpack. No Charlie. He shakes slightly as he speaks.]

I want. The rest of my body back. Right. Now.

If I don't get it, I'm gonna...

[Scrad's eyes dart to the side, and his mouth opens and closes soundlessly, before he just cuts the the feed. Charlie would know what they were gonna do, but he has no idea.]

Comments

[umgekehrt]

It's interesting to watch. I could show you the corner where you get an unobscured view and aren't likely to get hit by a tooth.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

What stops you from being likely to get hit by a fist?

[umgekehrt]

It's a gym, not a bar-- anyone that invested in doing damage is sparring, showing off a bit-- not going for every comer, just whoever signed off to be in the ring.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Our...[Scrad winces slightly at that slip] experience with people invested in doing damage is a little different from yours.

[umgekehrt]

I was in Fleet. All things considered, I prefer the gym to a brawl on leave or ground combat...

[twoheadsofcabbage]

And we prefer staying as far away from someone else's fists as possible.

[umgekehrt]

Fair enough. I trust in my native ability to survive most things. [He indicates his face.]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Like what?

[umgekehrt]

Bottles to the face [points to a scar], shrapnel [points to another scar], more shrapnel [points out of frame], groundcar crash [the one that pins his eyebrow down], close-proximity explosions [he points to what is almost certainly a scar concealed under his shirt] .

That sort of thing.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Right. That sort of thing. Not a fan.

[umgekehrt]

Avoid the military.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Got that pretty much covered.

[umgekehrt]

Good man. Admittedly it's easier aboard. Floods, no. The military yes.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

We've...I've...nothing is worth fighting for.

[umgekehrt]

A paycheck and a berth were plenty for me.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

There are way easier ways to get those, man.

[umgekehrt]

The upshot to all of this is 'no to the gym', then?

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Not so much my style.

[umgekehrt]

Are you going to be all right through the rest of the flood? It might be a rough few days.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

No, I'm not. As long as I'm stuck like this, I'm not going to be alright.

[umgekehrt]

Survive, then?

[twoheadsofcabbage]

We have so far.

[umgekehrt]

Poor bastard. I hope the drink helps.