[ TEXT ] in which cambridge makes a polite enquiry about her location

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ Hello, fellow crewmembers. If your device wasn’t on before IT CERTAINLY IS NOW! Cambridge - still nursing the mental wound of her power being so rudely culled and currently feeling obnoxiously disorientated - technopathically shoves a text transmission your way: ]

if somebody doesn't tell me exactly where the fuck I am then I am airlocking the whole bloody ship so help me god.

[ An idle threat, don’t you worry. If she had been at full strength then she might have attempted to slip her way through the ship’s systems but as it is she can barely switch a light off, let alone override the hundreds of security precautions that would undoubtedly stand between her and an airlock. Still, the impulse behind the threat is very real: uncertainty and fear mingled with a desperation to check that she wasn’t going mad and dreaming this all... ]

unless this is some hideously unfunny prank in which case you can all go to hell.

bad form, you bastards.

Comments

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

the most basic principles of biology.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should reexamine those principles. There's at least one of us who can survive in space.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

that's impossible. no one can survive in space for very long - what with it being space.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

I'll show you sometime if you promise not to jettison everyone out the airlocks.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

you don't need to show my anything. I told you before, it's not possible.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

It is possible. I've done it.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

you've survived in space.

[ unfortunately text doesn't quite convey Cambridge's blistering waves of disbelief. ]

and what about that pesky little breathing habit.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

...Why would I try to breathe in space?

[Ha! That is silly, Cambridge!]

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ ...what. ]

What do you mean.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Space doesn't have any air. Trying to breathe while you're in it would be pointless.

[I mean come on lady JEEZ]

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ Cambridge is so lost. What the actual fuck. ]

breathing while you're in it would be impossible. that's the point. one cannot hope to survive.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Humans can't, anyway. But I don't really have to breathe, so I'm perfectly fine.

Although it does make communication difficult. On my last ship, comm rings helped circumvent that limitation.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ There is a loooooong pause before Cambridge rattles off her reply: ]

what in god's name are you then.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

[jeez cambridge that is kinda mean]

I'm a Synthetic Human. ...An artificial life form made to resemble a human.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ UGH WHAT IS ALL THIS this is utterly ridiculous ]

I don't believe you. are you part of this ship.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Why would I lie about something that was so easily verifiable?

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ a good point, but Cambridge is not about to admit that. ]

are you saying you would gladly go out of the airlock just to prove me wrong.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

well then. It would be remiss of me if I didn't take the opportunity to see this put to the test.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Seeing is believing? Please specify the time and location of the airlock you would like to use.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

good grief, you really ARE willing to go through with this aren't you.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

I thought that was the point of this conversation.

You know, space really isn't that bad. It gets a bad reputation sometimes, but it's pretty peaceful.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

peaceful on account of the acute lack of living organisms.

fine. let's do this. airlock by the first deck of passenger cabins.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

I'll meet you there.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

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