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[wiretap]

request for information_
reported anomalies among incumbent passengers.
documented exports.



locked :: KNOWN ORDER OPERATIVES (uk and us) :: encryption 90%
problem.


locked :: SPOCK :: encryption 90%
i want to talk.


locked :: JOHN EGBERT :: encryption 90%
still here.

Comments

voice;

[20mentholkools]

Don't get a theory without something starting it.

voice;

[wiretap]

Something within the singularities alters the biology of certain passengers. Wounds are healed, inorganic physiology is replaced.

Causality's possible, just unconfirmed.

voice;

[20mentholkools]

[There's a pause, and then an quiet edge of tension or frustration as he speaks again. He didn't understand half of what she'd just said.]

Lot of complicated words for a simple answer.

voice;

[wiretap]

[ Layman's terms: ] I'm misremembering things.

[ (Her eidetic memory is not a lie. But the last thing she wants is to explain her hearing.) ] Since the jump.

voice;

[20mentholkools]

[Another pause, but this time his tone turns lighter, amused, maybe even slightly dismissive. He'd thought she had something interesting going on.]

You and everyone else.

voice;

[wiretap]

[ It's a normal assumption to make. 'You and everyone else'. What Aberdeen is interested in are the people who would look beyond the banal. ]

For me, it's like going blind.

[ She doesn't say deaf. It's too on the nose. ]

voice;

[20mentholkools]

[He would carry on being dismissive, think she was exaggerating, but the idea of going blind hits too close to home for him. If she's essentially lost a sense, he wants to know how, and he wants to know the likelihood of it happening to others - to him.]

How many times?

voice;

[wiretap]

My first time. [ A beat. ] But I've seen others handicapped.

[ Cambridge, Oxford — both had their powers hamstringed by the ship. ] After a jump.

voice;

[20mentholkools]

You're thinking it's something in the jump.

voice;

[wiretap]

Or the ship.

Unlike the temporary side-effects of exposure to the jump drive's functionality, these symptoms have yet to go away in others.

voice;

[20mentholkools]

[He hadn't meant the jump itself. He'd meant during the jump, when they were most vulnerable to anyone or anything messing with them - it was the obvious answer to him. But he also knew enough to rule it out, at least partially.]

Nothing happens in the couches.