15 ⚓ Video/Spam ⚓ Gather yourselves, with all your heart and strength

[hearrrtofgold]

[Video]
Duke Crocker of the Cape Rouge calling Haven P.D. Anyone out there? [He’s got only small hope that anyone will answer, almost certain that Audrey and Nathan won’t. But still, he’d come through the last time the network glitched (before he showed up on the Barge), as had she. Maybe it could happen again with them, or anyone he was familiar with from back home.

He pauses for a long time, mulling over what he’s about to share, and suddenly blurts it out.] Oprah Winfrey.

[Gym Spam, evening]
[After the last of the messages had trickled in, Duke had shaken himself off and tried to calm himself walking Brownie, fixing himself a very heavy chicken salad for supper, and tried to do some yoga poses. None of the activities had provided him any peace, and he eventually decided to just embrace the discomfort and beat the crap out of something.

So here he is, standing in the gym with knuckles bound in tape and taking out his frustrations on a punching bag. He’s more than competent in street-fighting, not exceptional but still practiced and forceful. He doesn’t even remember his first fistfight, although he’s sure he lost it, and that drives him on.]

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[hearrrtofgold]

[Oh come on, Chris. Even the most involved helicopter parent doesn't get to know everything about their kid.

That said, Duke is the sort of thing parents should maybe know about. Even when his intentions are good, Trouble happens.]

What's that, some sort of paleolithic animal?

[gottohaveacode]

[Oh but he tries. He tries very very hard.]

Close. It's a variety of moth native to Australia. As larvae, they hitch a ride on leafhoppers or scale insects, but what they really like are ants. To the point where they actually release pheromones to compel them to bring them home to the nest so they can infiltrate and eat all their young.

[hearrrtofgold]

Interesting. What's with the biology lesson? Are you saying I should never underestimate a butterfly?

[gottohaveacode]

I'm not saying anything. I just thought you might find it interesting.

[But that Look is meaningful.]

The idea that sometimes things get confused. Get tricked into accepting the company of something that will only ever make trouble for them.

[hearrrtofgold]

[Duke chuckles, the same dry little laugh that comes before throwing a roustabout out of his bar.]

There are a lot of kinds of trouble.