[ 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

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Are they good enough to hijack a system you might not be familiar with in the least, locate the protocols for the airlocks, and alter the coding to where they'll open?

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. [ but even she doesn't sound so sure. ] I'm waiting to see if the people in charge of this little operation fancy me finding out.

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

[Force knows he couldn't, but he's not the best with computers in the first place.] Whoever they are, they might be as in the dark as we are. And I doubt that threats will make them cooperate, even so.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

As in the dark as we are? I sincerely doubt it. How else do we explain our presence here - the tattoos - if it isn't all part of some terribly elaborate plan to hold us all hostage against our will?

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Have you done anything recently that would drive someone to do all of this to hold you prisoner?

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I work for my country's government. [ ...that's all she feels she need say to explain her situation. It's not a lie - she does work for the Ministry of Defence - but her moonlighting as a superpowered operative for a non-elected quasi-government was probably more the problem. ]

Do you have some other kind of brilliant plan, mister...?

[ She trails off expectantly, awaiting a name. ]

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Tobias Donn. And my brilliant plan, right now, is to figure out where I am, remember what's gone fuzzy for me, and then figure out why I'm here, ma'am.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ ohhhhh, Tobias, you get points for calling her ma'am. You can stay. ]

I can't imagine that plan is working out terribly well for you so far, mister Donn.

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

[Jedi are taught to be polite, after all. It's what he does best!]

Well, it hasn't been very long. These things can take a while, if they're going to be figured out right.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid kidnapping doesn't particularly bring out my patient side.

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Kidnapping implies intent. I don't think anyone would have intended to kidnap this many people all at once.

[Because intergalactic slavers would be just too bizarre. Even for the current circumstances.]

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

And on the contrary it's a hell of a lot to happen for it to just be a simple accident, don't you think?

[ You can practically hear the unimpressed frown in her voice. ]