Entry Log Twenty-one – 00:24:57
"Wait, wait, start from the beginning again." Cayde's voice states as the screen flickers on, his ghost adjusting the camera to a wider view. Skylar and Cayde are sitting side by side on bar stools turned towards each other. The wall in front of them is lined with colorful bottles dusted in the amber light of the pictures above. The bartender is down, almost out of the feed's sight, tending to dirty glasses and the few other stray customers. Skylar rests a hand on the bar table, fingers tapping a glass with half its contents gone, and let's out an exasperated sigh at her mentor's words.
"Are you really going to record this? Really?" it's an idle nearly pleading question, one that speak volumes for how well she knows the Exo and his video logs. She fidgets slightly, glancing at Sundance' running feed with begrudging weariness. Cayde just quirks a brow and grins, the hinges of his jaw straining under the emotional display. He lifts his own glass towards her as if waving a hand.
"Hey, this might be important later down the road." The way his voice vibrates with laughter makes Skylar narrow her eyes but she doesn't move to argue it further, just picks up her drink and takes a sip.
"Fine, whatever. Anyway, I had just left my room and was headed to the elevator. One of my neighbors was leaving too. He's a human Titan and a sort of friend of mine now I guess. Don't know him that well yet, met him through Z. The guy goes by the name 'Noble'." She air quotes the name to which Cayde chuckles, shaking his head.
"Really? Well, someone wants an epic name."
"Probably, everyone just calls him Perkins instead. Don't ask me why, I have no idea, but that's not the point, the point is as he was leaving I got a glance inside his room. I thought I mistook it at first for something else but…he has this huge poster of Lord Shaxx in his room. You know the one they made for that promotional crap for Crucible, the "I want you" one." The girl's face is nearly lit blue and gold by the sudden intensity of Cayde's light as he laughs, his metallic chuckle echoing off the walls of the mostly empty bar.
"Well. Guess he likes Crucible," he chuckles leaning his head on a raised fist as he serves his charge. "You meet some interesting people Rookie." His comment has her making a face and finishing off her drink.
"You're telling me, that's not even the weirdest part. The guy's focus is Sunbreaker, yet he won't change his helmet. He's using the super rare one for Strikers."
"You mean that weird one with the flaming eyebrows on the faceplate?" he questions and Skylar nods her head.
"Yeah, I've heard some of his friends tease him about it, Z called it 'The Helm of In-Most-Perkins' or something." She grins as her mentor snorts, blinking his glowing blue eyes while rolling them. He gestures to the bartender at her empty glass and moments later it's gone and being filled.
"You know, most Guardians bring back stories from being out in the field, but you find enough content in the tower." Cayde teases and Skylar just echos his snort with one of her own.
"Err…thanks?" she mutters, blinking and Cayde nods his head as her new drink is dropped off and he turns to look at the bartender.
"Put her drink on my tab. This story was worth every glimmer." he gets a nod from the worker who strides off to do other work and Skylar gives him a surprised look and tries to protest but he waves her off. "Don't be so stubborn. Now about those Vex you found on Venus."
Skylar narrowed her eyes at him but let it go, plucking up her fresh drink and starts in on debriefing her vanguard leader on her latest findings.
