( 01 ) the facts and the figures they overwhelm and stifle everything that you thought you knew

[steeled]

[ so, tara's going to skip over how insane all this is, and how she's almost sure everyone and everything around her is a product of being drugged or knocked unconscious via blunt force trauma one time too many. it's-- not useful for one, and depressing for another.

trying to push down how utterly impossible this all is means the expression she turns to the network is her best approximation of the professional, slightly detached pleasantness needed at work. it's not perfect, but it is the best she can gather together over shredded nerves. ]

Does anyone have any acetaminophen-based painkillers? I know we have a medbay, but on the off-chance there's something more familiar I thought I'd ask.

[ and 'are these space drugs safe for fetuses' isn't a question she's necessarily going to leave up to hope and a prayer; it's also not one she'd like to ask out loud. and then, without warning: ]

...again? [ her smile breaks there, frustration and panic looming as she reaches up with slightly unsteady hands to brush at the thin line of blood trailing down and pooling on her upper lip. ] Fuck. [ that's muttered under her breath as she hunts for a towel. her frustration tempers a little as she composes herself, but space is clearly not her favorite thus far. ] And if someone could tell me that's going to stop soon, I'd appreciate it.

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[chickenselects]

...[eyebrow cock.] does he know you had lessons?

[Though he supposes he does now.]

[steeled]

No, it was just me growing up.

[ pretty literally. ]

[steeled]

Can I ask who handles that right now? Just out of curiosity.

[ hah. ]

[steeled]

And only scientists see birds?

[ ...jesus, the future is depressing. ]

[wolfchild]

Yes.

[ not with guns… ]

[northerner]

And I'd rather you didn't do anything. He shares the Kingslayer's face, but even were he Jaime Lannister we'd not raise our swords for it.

[ yeah this is gonna go so well. ]

[wolfchild]

Older brothers are embarrassing.

[ she says it in the sore manner only little sisters can achieve. but she speaks of them now. ]

[northerner]

Aye, my youngest sister. She's strong-willed.

[wolfchild]

Unless he threatens us.

[ look, a lannister she doesn't want to shank on arrival! ]

[northerner]

Aye, unless he raises his sword against our family. But he'd be a fool to do it, and we fools to provoke him.

[wolfchild]

I haven't done anything.

[northerner]

And I know it.

[ omg!!! ]

But for the future, were he to ever arrive, I am saying this now.

[northerner]

My youngest sister. I cry your pardon, you share a face with a man who did our family a great wrong, and that is why she reacted the way she did.

[wolfchild]

Do you think I'm stupid? I'm not going to!

[ his sister tho… ]

[northerner]

[ oh my god ]

Swear it.

[wolfchild]

Swear what?

[chickenselects]

Well I'm assuming a bird is an animal [and also that you probably live on earth or...something like it, given the whole human/ no first contact scenario.] so aside from anyone living near them or visiting, yeah.

I've never been to Earth myself, but I've heard a thing or two about it.

[chickenselects]

[A beat]

Please tell me you don't have a gun.

[chickenselects]

Trust me, it's not really a face I'd like to have.

[Wait. Wait if he's in this body--] The ship doesn't usually switch bodies around, right?

[steeled]

Honestly? So are boyfriends, and their friends.

[ sup, jax. ]

That's the closest I ever came.

[steeled]

She's sweet.

[ a little wry, because she noticed the other too. ]

She helped me after the jump.

[allbloodyhail]

...No one's placing blame, alright. You're in shock. People do... things, when they're in shock.

You sure you're not getting that looked at?

[steeled]

[ she pauses for a second then laughs, almost startled. ]

Sorry, I just-- the idea of someone not knowing what a bird is-- it's like not knowing what hands are, they just are.

[ her mind is utterly blown lbr ]

[steeled]

I looked at it.

[ physician, heal thyself!!!!!! or something ]

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[humanistic]

You're--

[wow trigger warning for blood next time please, ma'am!]

The, uh, painkillers, they're not for headaches, are they?

[Because headaches + nosebleeds is a pretty suspicious combination, right? And he'd have just skipped on by this one and avoided looking at/thinking about blood--but if this is going to be some sort of epidemic, or if there's a lady that's spouting blood everywhere--it's sort of the thing that ought to be known about.]