002, the afternoon of the 18th

[devilofohara]

[When Robin had first received her wanted poster in the mail, she had been mortified. When she started receiving messages about it from other people, that emotion changed into one of fear, suspicion and paranoia. The first thing she'd done in response was to head down into the prison planet, away from the Moira and the crew she no longer felt safe around.

It had been more than twenty four hours since then, though , and she's since come to terms with the fact that this isn't a permanent solution. She won't be able to stay on the prison planet forever, and even if she could she certainly didn't want to. Besides the obvious fact that it's a prison, things were starting to get strange down there.

It didn't take long to realize that this isn't the sort of problem she's going to be able to run from - not yet, at least. Even if she isn't ready to board the Moira again, she needs to get out ahead of this problem. ]

This is Nico Robin.

I know some of you got my posters in the mail. I was hoping to know, how many?

[ The first step of dealing with a problem is figuring out how much of one she's dealing with, after all. Maybe if it's just one or two people, she can bribe or threaten them into keeping their mouths shut. Maybe, if she's lucky, she can prevent her face from being associated with that name.]

Comments

[devilofohara]

It's my first bounty, if that's what you mean.

This isn't the first time I've seen it.

[heartscold]

Question is, do you deserve it?

I mean, did you earn a bounty like that? Or should it be bigger? [He's teasing a little, but information would be nice, too.]

[devilofohara]

I earned it. What the posters said about me is true.

[No it isn't. But if she has to have a target on her back, she's going to at least make herself seem like a real threat. All the better to avoid confrontation with.]

[heartscold]

Is that so.

[He's not quite sure if he believes her, but he'll go along, for now.]

If that's the case, then own it, kid. Don't act so mopey. Everyone got a right to be afraid of you? Good.

Fact is, there's too many hero-types around this place. But a bounty like that don't mean a thing out here, right?

[devilofohara]

It is.

Owning it only works until someone stronger than I am shows up and decides they want me dead. I'd rather nobody knew who I was.

[heartscold]

Then you make friends who're stronger, too. Get someone to watch your back.

[devilofohara]

I've had people like that before.

Some of them died. Some of them sold me out when things got hard. It's better to just hide.

[heartscold]

[It takes a moment for the reply on that one... he understands, much as he wouldn't like to. He's lost people before, and he's been betrayed more often than he'd like to count. Sometimes he's been on the opposite side, selling someone else out too, and he hasn't particularly been proud of that, even if it was necessary at the time.]

Bit harder to hide when we're all stuck on a ship together. Not many places to run.