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[emerges]

[ Well, hey TQ, hope you don't mind this fresh face on the network. She normally sticks to texting because if it looks like a phone and acts like a (kind of sci-fi upgraded) phone, why not use it like one? But she's been going through the other features — slow day on the ship, you know how it is — and after rifling through everything she can easily find on the communicator, she decides to post up a video.

So here's a young, teenaged girl setting the comm in front of her before she sits down cross-legged and twirls a lock of her hair. Alas, it's got less of a bounce than it normally does, but that's what lack of hot rollers on a ship will do. ]

If I write my best essay and promise to stay on my best behavior after, am I allowed to leave Space Detention? I mean, I haven't even gotten to mess around in a library, so this kind of blows.

[ she smiles because she's kind of hoping someone will catch the reference. If not, then well: ] Or are we all waiting for some big, space musical number?

Are there even any boomboxes to hold up outside that red smiley thing's window? If it has one. [ seriously, what is up with that thing. ] Also, I guess it'd have to be this phone thing, since I don't have an iPod anymore.

[ She lets out a very put upon sigh before admitting something you never would have guessed!! clearly!! But it's followed by a smile that's all teeth and too much eyelash batting. ]

Okay, so I'm bored. And I can't really miss anyone who left, since I just got here. [ not even touching whatever's up with the masks. ] You'd think the aliens would be able to hook us up with better movie selections or something.

I don't suppose there's someone on here with something entertaining to do?

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[emerges]

Does everyone get to vote?

[ you know age wise and all ]

[jurisimpudent]

Yes. Without exception.

[emerges]

Criminals? Little kids? Not quite human things?

[jurisimpudent]

[He doesn't sound hugely happy about it, but:]

I said without exception, did I not?

[emerges]

Yeah, you totally did, but it sure is going to be interesting. In a chaotic sort of way.

[jurisimpudent]

Well, there are not so very many of us. A few hundred, no more. Normal elections in the United States are on a much larger scale.

[emerges]

But we're all in space, all pulled from who knows where. What if they don't even have voting?

[jurisimpudent]

It's not a difficult thing to explain.

[emerges]

Alright, you can help me out then when the time comes. Sound good, Space Lawyer?

[jurisimpudent]

...Edgeworth, not "Space Lawyer," thank you.

[emerges]

Is that it? You're just "Edgeworth"?

[jurisimpudent]

Miles Edgeworth, if you insist upon a full name, but if you must call me something "just Edgeworth" is preferable. I did not catch your surname.

[emerges]

Okay, I'll stick to Just Edgeworth.

[ even if she doesn't believe his name sounds like a real name!! ]

It's Reyes, by the way.

[jurisimpudent]

Ms. Reyes, then, and I thank you for your cooperation. And, for what it is worth, I should be pleased and honored to explain to you how our democratic system will work.

[emerges]

I'll be there as long as you promise me it won't be boring.

[jurisimpudent]

Of course it is not "boring." It is something of the greatest importance and gravity.

[emerges]

Yeah, but if you keep talking like that, I guarantee it won't just be me falling asleep.

[jurisimpudent]

Sorry - precisely what is it about "importance and gravity" which invites sleep? "This is vital and you should pay attention" - that drives you at once to nap?

[emerges]

It's not the fact that it's important. I get that — but if you just go on and on about it, it'll get dull. Nothing wrong with using something to grab people's attention, right?

[jurisimpudent]

If you have a suggestion about what's more attention-grabbing than "this is vital to your future," I'm open to hearing it.

[emerges]

You could have it narrated by Morgan Freeman, that would be pretty cool.

Or make a dramatic video, I like that idea too.

[jurisimpudent]

I presume this "Morgan Freeman" is some celebrity of some sort? Not someone on-board.

[emerges]

If he was on-board, that would be amazing. But yeah, he's a celebrity. You've never heard of him?

[jurisimpudent]

Should I have?

[emerges]

Well, he did kind of play god. It's just a little weird if you have no idea who he is.