Oh. My. God. What an infuriating man. He tolerates the closeness, wrinkling his nose at the sniff, and doesn't even react to Matt's hand on his face at first. He feels warm, like a furnace, like always. But no clamminess, no sign of fever. He's just the same old Frank Castle, unhinged but every bit as confident in his perception of reality as he was on that rooftop. After a moment, he can't take it anymore and he slaps the other man's hand away with an almost feral sound under his breath.
"You're a human lie detector. You know I'm tellin' the truth. And you're gonna need the space rundown if you're gonna last two seconds here." Frank doesn't wait for Matt to get with the program, he's listing safety protocols. "Keep your communicator on you at all times - already failed that one I'll find it for you. Keep your boots on at all times. You lean back or click your heels together in the case of no gravity. This already happened once and it will happen again, so don't be an asshole about it. You always walk with the spin of the rings, I bet you can feel them if you concentrate instead of accusing me of being on drugs. They keep us on the ground so we like it when they move, but if you go too far counterspinwise you're gonna regret it. And I'm not holding your hair back."
God, what else? There are so many moving parts, he's trying to remember them all and cram them into Matt's head while he's given the chance.
"Gym's on Deck 4, that's one up from here. You have to work out, every day, we lose muscle mass every day we're here if we don't. Mess Hall is Deck 2, I can show you how to work the replicators. The coffee's shit but the protein bars are okay. Everything else is at-your-own-risk though we've got a team of nerds on 'em now and they are getting better... Oh. Chapel. Deck 1. Karen and me found it, I'll, um. There's no priest or anything there but maybe you'll like it. When you're feeling up to it, I'll take you there."
Okay, so he lost the angry dad steam somewhere along the way, sue him!!!!!
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"You're a human lie detector. You know I'm tellin' the truth. And you're gonna need the space rundown if you're gonna last two seconds here." Frank doesn't wait for Matt to get with the program, he's listing safety protocols. "Keep your communicator on you at all times - already failed that one I'll find it for you. Keep your boots on at all times. You lean back or click your heels together in the case of no gravity. This already happened once and it will happen again, so don't be an asshole about it. You always walk with the spin of the rings, I bet you can feel them if you concentrate instead of accusing me of being on drugs. They keep us on the ground so we like it when they move, but if you go too far counterspinwise you're gonna regret it. And I'm not holding your hair back."
God, what else? There are so many moving parts, he's trying to remember them all and cram them into Matt's head while he's given the chance.
"Gym's on Deck 4, that's one up from here. You have to work out, every day, we lose muscle mass every day we're here if we don't. Mess Hall is Deck 2, I can show you how to work the replicators. The coffee's shit but the protein bars are okay. Everything else is at-your-own-risk though we've got a team of nerds on 'em now and they are getting better... Oh. Chapel. Deck 1. Karen and me found it, I'll, um. There's no priest or anything there but maybe you'll like it. When you're feeling up to it, I'll take you there."
Okay, so he lost the angry dad steam somewhere along the way, sue him!!!!!