Weaponizing this place, these markers. They know what they're doing, but the subtlety, the communal caring as if it'll pass — that's what I would have done. And I'd take advantage of it.
[ Natasha licks her lips, pauses before typing any further. If she could think clearly, then maybe she'd be able to put together something in motion. Fear is what's kept her alive all these years and she respects that fear. If she could just—
She deletes that, start and sends out another message: ]
More with this cold. And generally. There's always something against us.
( She might have chosen to fight, first the marines and then with SHIELD but sometimes it felt as if anything they tried didn't make a dent. Not when more always arose, and with what started just before she arrived? The ship made it worse. A constant look over your shoulders - not just from the people around you, and now Loki, but the place itself. And possibilities that shouldn't ever be possible )
widowlock.
[ A beat, then: ]
Loki's here, too.
widowlock.
He came to talk to me.
widowlock.
widowlock.
( To not rely on someone else to get what he wants, anyway )
widowlock.
But I don't know what magic means.
widowlock.
( You wouldn't just tell the people what you could do who may (would) wish to use it against you )
widowlock.
[ Natasha licks her lips, pauses before typing any further. If she could think clearly, then maybe she'd be able to put together something in motion. Fear is what's kept her alive all these years and she respects that fear. If she could just—
She deletes that, start and sends out another message: ]
Do you ever feel tired?
widowlock.
And generally. There's always something against us.
( She might have chosen to fight, first the marines and then with SHIELD but sometimes it felt as if anything they tried didn't make a dent. Not when more always arose, and with what started just before she arrived? The ship made it worse. A constant look over your shoulders - not just from the people around you, and now Loki, but the place itself. And possibilities that shouldn't ever be possible )