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[fatespoken]

When you’re a kid, maybe you say to yourself:

"I wish I could go to Disneyland."

"I hope I'll get my cock sucked by fifteen. By sixteen, I better be banging someone in the back of dad's favorite car.”

"One day, I’ll get into Harvard and become a brown-nosing yuppie making bonuses bigger than my insecurity complex. I’ll get married even. Have a kid, maybe two. A dog. And if I'm really lucky, I won’t be miserable.”

Those are the sort of wishes that come true. The mundane ones. You don’t say: "Well, one day I’d really like to go up into space. Maybe spend a night or two in a space ship. A journey through space? Oh man, why not? Not like we've only gotten as far as the moon. ”

And then, bam. Space.

Life doesn’t work like this. You don’t get what you want and when you do, it never comes free. So, what’s the catch? Probing, space slugs taking over our brains, being sold as human cargo to a far away planet, a floating menagerie? The options are endless.

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[fatespoken]

Add in shitty piping and cockroaches, and you've got my last apartment. [ A beat. ] So how long do these trips last?

[parallels]

Dunno.

Been here about a month or so. If time is passing properly.

[fatespoken]

Twenty four hour days, seven days to a week, thirty to thirty-one days to a month?

[parallels]

If we assume that time passes normally here. Considering the ship can jump through spacetime, I'm not sure I'd take anything for granted.

[fatespoken]

Now that's cool.

So what other trips has this ship made?

[parallels]

I think I've heard it's hovered near a planet or two. But nothing that exciting in my time here.

Last month half the ship was asleep.

[fatespoken]

Hovered near a planet? You never docked?

[parallels]

Dunno, like I said, I heard it from others. No docking since I've arrived.

[fatespoken]

A ship with no observable destination. Doesn't sound ominous at all.