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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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[worthyourwhile]

[Tess lets the string of assumptions run through her mind; spoiled, rich kid, whiny fuck. Then she tucks them away for future reference and starts typing.]

This place is a hell of a lot better than where I'm from, but I don't expect that feeling to last.

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[fatespoken]

[ Damn, you've hit all of them right on the nail. ]

what makes you say that? a feeling in your bones? personal experience? pessimism?

[worthyourwhile]

Common sense. And if you do a little digging you'll find out this fucking temperature thing isn't the worst of the shit that's gone on in the past few months.

[fatespoken]

i've heard about the memory show and tell.

not sure why i'd give a damn about memories from a bunch of strangers, but i guess that's supposed to be ~scary~?

[worthyourwhile]

Apparently it could kill you, although it seems like no one kicked the bucket so it might have been an exaggeration.

[Despite herself she had to agree. Memories and needing a jacket didn't seem that upsetting. The monsters seemed worse, but she was pretty sure she could handle it. Still, she wasn't planning on getting too comfortable here. Even if they did have more food than she'd seen in a dogs age.]

[fatespoken]

death by embarrassment, maybe. if you care about that sort of thing. [ And well, he does care about memories and not sharing them. But hey, it happened once, doesn't mean it will happen again, right? ] But I'll take heatstroke over brain slugs, any day of the week.

[worthyourwhile]

Talk like that'll earn you brain slugs.

[fatespoken]

i don't think they'd be too comfortable in my brain. too smart for them, that sort of thing.

[worthyourwhile]

Probably starve. Upside is you've got such a big head they'd probably find it real roomy.

[fatespoken]

hey, it just might be a symbiotic relationship. know how much protein's in a slug?

[worthyourwhile]

Not a clue. Never had much to do with the french.

[fatespoken]

well, we better hope for slugs if this frenetic weather spoils all the food. shit has more protein than a steak.

[worthyourwhile]

I'll stick to the canned shit, thanks.

[fatespoken]

how much of a stockpile do they have on this shuttle, anyway?

[worthyourwhile]

Seems like a shit load. Seems like way more than you'd need to feed the number of people that are actually here.

[fatespoken]

maybe there were a lot more people before us

or maybe our captors are just being nice and prudent, and this thing isn't some survivalist experiment to see who's willing to kill for food.

[worthyourwhile]

You ever known a captor to be nice? I sure as hell haven't. Probably just a different angle. Everyone's got angles kid.

[fatespoken]

of course they do. and figuring out exactly what they want with us, what could be worth all this trouble, that's tantamount. well, besides taking advantage of the free alcohol

don't call me kid.

[worthyourwhile]

Touchy.

You think figuring it out is gonna get you anywhere?

[fatespoken]

just fact

the question is: do i have anything better to do?

[worthyourwhile]

Clever man like you, there's got to be something you can come up with.

[fatespoken]

oh, there's plenty i can do. won't have any problem there

[worthyourwhile]

Glad to hear it.