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Kind of had an idea. [ Have Peter trying to keep from looking apprehensive. ] Don't know if it'd work, or if anybody'd even find it helpful.

But with everything that's been happening lately? This ship's too big to have people getting lost in it as often as they do. Ending up who knows where for more than just a few days at a time. Dangerous enough as it is on any given day, but with something on the ship leaving threatening messages lying around? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

[ he sighs. ] At some hospitals, they paint the floors -- stripes down the middle with hints to where you're going. Guess it'd work on the walls too, doesn't really matter. But it's a trail that's easy to follow. Tells you how to get where you need to go so that people don't end up on the wrong floor in a storage closet wondering how to get back to the information desk. [ Not that that's ever happened to him, no, of course not. But Peter shrugs, like it's the best helpful idea he's got, even if he doesn't know if it'd work. ]

Doubt the captain would want us painting the floors, but if he's not around to stop us, I don't know what the problem would be. Unless the ship likes to move hallways around without anyone noticing.

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Had a similar, if more cheerful idea a few months back. I've been waiting for us to dock somewhere again so I can gather supplies.

You did? [ oh, he's so not trying to steal anyone's thunder. ] There's a few more ideas being tossed around, if you're still interested in doing something before we dock. If we ever do.

Well, I didn't exactly announce it. Didn't want Resnik or Ward overhearing. The hallways all look the same and they're bloody dreary. I figured next time we stopped somewhere, I'd find a way to smuggle some paint and... I don't know, something decorative back on board and I'd do some sprucing up. It would have the additional benefit of making things easier to navigate.

They'd probably notice even if you didn't announce it. [ a beat ] Guess it would've given you more time, though.

But since you've had more time to think about it, done any preliminary work yet? I don't even know if we've got basic maps of the ship, let alone ones people tried to make before walls moved around.

We have a map...much good it does. It's incomplete, and as you say, the walls move. It might help track where they move to if there are better markers. Assuming the walls don't also absorb paint and shrubberies, that is.

That's what i'm thinking after everyone's said that the walls move anyway. Maybe we'll get a better understanding of the ship if we find out what it's doing when we're not watching.

And physical markers really might be the only way to do it. I've always been an advocate of CCTV, but I imagine that wouldn't be as reliable as we'd like.

Something tells me involving even more technology into it might just make it too complicated. Sticking with physical markers might be our best bet of not having them altered.

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