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[Private//Unhackable to Jim Kirk]

I do believe we're supposed to meet for drinks. Unless you're too busy trying to save the ship. [A beat.] I'm just teasing. Besides, it's been a while.

[She supposed to be keeping tabs on him after all.]

[Private//Unhackable to Mason Lockwood.]

We should catch up sometime, yeah?

[Voice filters out of the way, Bela begins to address the ship instead.]

So, aside from the obvious desire to get off this ship, what would each of you wish for above anything else?

Consider me curious.

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It's a struggle to contain myself sometimes.

Oh, I can imagine that it's so difficult.

You have no idea. Especially when faced with such a potentially existential question. Why do you care what others yearn for in their heart of hearts?

I never said that I cared about it, I just want to have my curiosity satisfied. [Maybe she'd learn more about people through her questions.]

Ah, I see. More along the lines of a social experiment, then?

Yeah. To see who'd take the bait and actually answer me. So far, it's been a poor response.

Look at it this way—at least you're not stuck listening to mindless starry-eyed drivel about wishing for world peace or the like.

Oh believe me, I'm glad that I haven't gotten any replies like that. The world can never be saved, no matter what anyone does.

Are you hoping for dark and sordid confessions, then?

Maybe. [They'd be all the more interesting.] Might tell me more about who I'm stuck on this ship with.

Or who to avoid, at the very least.

Now that is something that I agree with you on.

Case in point? [Oh look - he has a sense of humor.]

[And that gets a laugh out of her.] So you can be funny then.

[Dryly] It's been known to happen.

Once in a blue moon?

More often than a tri-annual astronomical event, I'd say.

Maybe I'll have a chance to hear it again. [Unlikely, but she's still amused.]

I imagine you are familiar with that saying about not holding one's breath.

Oh, I am more than familiar with that particular phrase.

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