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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]

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.

[jurisimpudent]

Then there is the problem: I do not watch religious films. And I would not seek to rely on some borrowed gravity from Christianity.

[emerges]

What? Oh no, Bruce Almighty was like a comedy. I guess god was there, but it wasn't really like that.

[jurisimpudent]

...I beg your pardon; there seems to be some fundamental miscommunication here. What was similar to a comedy?

[emerges]

The movie? The one Morgan Freeman played god in.

[jurisimpudent]

So then - All right. If he was playing God facetiously, then how would that give him some authority in this...instruction.

[emerges]

Oh! [ she smiles triumphantly ]

He just has this really really cool and mellow voice. Like it's basically made for announcing all kinds of things. Also, I'm sure someone else has heard of him even if you haven't.

[jurisimpudent]

Well -

[Okay, he sounds a bit miffed now.]

I don't have a bad voice myself, you know, if it's just the voice we're going for.

[emerges]

Well, it's not just the voice. He also kind of looks like everyone's favorite grandfather and no offence, but I have no idea what you look like.