driftfleet | uncomfortable questions + action

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uncomfortable questions + action

Who: Nova + U
Broadcast: Video
Action: On SS First Breath or planetside
When: now

[ a video pops up. Nova is looking mmmmore rested than she has in previous videos, but thoughtful and slightly distant ]

I have a weird question... have you ever met someone in one of these places who's supposed to be dead? Or... I guess, are you? How do you know?

[ she's also available to be found just outside of town on the dusty moon, or back on her ship later ]

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-- Is that how names were divvied up? By team?

Well, not really. We were assigned to teams by color, and our teammates usually helped us think of names, if we didn't remember our own.

And was forgetting them a common experience?

The primary one, really. We only had one memory when we arrived. Sometimes it included your name, or someone recognized you, but most of the time you had almost nothing.

It sounds heartbreaking. [ dour. ]

[ shrugs ]

You just keep moving. What else can you do?

[ ah, determination. it's a fine quality to witness. ]

Have you got anyone else here you'd known from...before, Miss Nova?

[ softens slightly ]

Well, not from home. But I showed up with the guy I'm seeing.

Fortuitous. And likely more than a small comfort, given the circumstances.

Yeah.

I don't sleep well so it's... nice to have him around.

And I imagine he must feel quite the same way about having you nearby.

[ she can be a bit of a romantic. at times. ]

Maybe. He's a good guy.

[ Nova is definitely blushing a bit ]

[ oh, she refuses to allow any falter in her voice. prim and precise, she answers: ] Hold onto him. The good ones are so rare and so very wonderful.

I...

[ suddenly she feels so much more committed than she meant to be ]

The whole thing is complicated, really.

[ carefully: ] I'll not pry, then.

Sorry. It's fine. We're from different worlds, is all. And I think I can get my sister and then go to his world, but... I'm not sure how things work from here.

It sounds like an ambitious plan. I wish you the best of luck, Miss Nova.

Thanks.

But really, Nova is just fine. I'm definitely not fancy enough for "miss'.

Fancy has little to do with it. We all deserve a bit of primp and circumstance now and again. Wouldn't you agree?

[ and yet she'll make a note not to use the 'miss' in future, as nova has registered her preference otherwise. ]