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Who: Suzie and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: For the Bloodsport, if you're around!
When: The wee hours of morning on Saturday, January 2

[You know what is the absolute worst? Going to bed feeling reasonably fine and waking up in the middle of the night with a stuffed-up nose, a mild headache, and the beginnings of a raised temperature. It makes it all but impossible to sleep, despite being tired and feeling generally run-down, and in Suzie's experience, the worst part about feeling sick is when you're just lying in bed with nothing to think about but being sick, and no distraction to help take some of the melancholy edge off of the malaise.

So instead, she gets up and wanders down to some empty workspace down in the ship's docking bay, and sets up shop near the shuttles with some tools and a pair of rolled-up sleeves on her utility jumper.

For a little while, she just putters around, testing the knowledge her augment has imparted to her against the tangible workings of the shuttle in front of her, and later when she's had her fill of that she plunks down and starts playing with odds and ends of the spare parts they have lying around, cobbling for the sake of cobbling rather than with any particular goal in mind.

Eventually, though, she reaches for her communicator, and it's shortly thereafter that a broadcast ends up hitting the network.]

I don't remember what day I got here. ε-(≖.≖﹆✿)

I think it was November here, when I came? It was before we got to the planet, so I think it's been about a month. Or so? I don't know. Do you think it's important to remember the day you arrived? Maybe I should get a calendar, when I remember the day, and keep it in my bunk so I can mark off each day when it's done and keep count. Or would that be too discouraging? Maybe if it were a pretty calendar, like the lithographed ones with the little scenes of people and birds and flowers. That's the problem with space, everything's metal and machines and not enough warm sun and shade and green things growing.

I like the planet, though. I miss Venezia more but the fresh air is nice even if it's cold. Everything is salt, though, isn't that funny? I hope someday we find a planet where everything is flowers. Except maybe that would be sad, too, because then someday we'd have to leave it, and I bet I wouldn't want to.

I wonder what other kinds of planets there are. What's the best one you could possibly imagine? I like the flower one...and I'd like one with canals and gondolas too. And someplace with real food instead of the ship mush. If we could go to someplace like that...

Haha, I'm being so silly. I should be asleep but I'm just sitting here talking about nothing at all! Maybe in a little while I'll go try again. (-﹏-。✿)

[But, for those on the Bloodsport, you can still find her tinkering down there for a little while afterward, before she eventually rambles back down to her bunk in a halfhearted attempt to fall asleep again.]

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Trouble with calendars is everyone's got different kinds of ones. Back home we've got thirteen months per half-year, eight days each week. Don't know how you people get anything done without Octeday.

[Guess who's awake because of nightmares again? Guess.]

Suzie? Are you all right?

[Now what is she doing up this early? Well, Joseph will keep her properly distracted rather than pry. At least for now.]

A planet full of flowers? Any flower or your favorites?

There was a planet sorta like that when I first got here. The whole planet was a forest and aware of itself.

...Thirteen months in a half year? Then that means...um...

[IF YOU WERE A BABY FIFTY YEARS AGO THEN HOW OLD ARE YOU??]

...Then one year has twenty-six months? Why would you ever need so many?

Well, every year's 800 days. So probably that's why.

THAT'S SO MANY DAYS!!!

Caesar? What are you doing awake at this hour?

[SHE SAYS, ALSO AWAKE AT THIS HOUR]

Hiiiiiiii Jojo. （ʃƪ≖3≖) ｡ﾟ+.✧♡

I think it'd be best to have LOTS of flowers. Even flowers I've never seen before! Space flowers might be just as pretty as real ones, right?

Aware of itself?? The forest was alive like a person instead of like a plant like it's supposed to be???

That's what the others said. I didn't get to spend much time down on the planet, but they said they did things like take a plant, it seemed to (for lack of a better word) react.

Hey there Suzie! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

I bet they are. Are you going to help Ino with her garden?

It is, isn't it? Eights and eights and eights. Eight days a week, 800 days a year. Eighth sons have power, eighth daughters might too, I don't really know. Point is eight's a power number. Which, by your calendar, would mean that August would be the most powerful month.

Or it's all a crock, but who can really say in the end?

Me. I can. It's all a crock. Calendar's a good idea all the same.

I was just

[dot dot dot pause dot dot dot]

I had a bad dream. What are you doing up?

[Hey, fellow sick buddy! Not that it's obvious she's sick, but hey, it's something he can do to get his mind off of feeling horrible!]

idk i liked a lot of it, just visiting planets is really cool for me. u know like getting to explore everything?

but i think i'd like one that had a big city, id feel more at home there

I have three sisters and our family name means "four". Four and four is eight, so does that make us special?

[IT'S LATE, BEAR WITH HER.]

I saw some calendars on the planet but they all had to do with salt and I think they figure the days differently too anyway. I don't want to look at salt, I'd rather look at something pretty.

Oh, that sounds awful... (っ◞‸◟c)

My nose is all stuffed up so I can't sleep, every time I lie down it feels terrible.

I think so, I looked for some plants on the salt planet but I didn't find any so I'll look harder on the next one whenever that is!! ᕙ(⇀‸↼✿)ᕗ

If we find the flower planet I'll definitely bring one of every kind though...

You're sick? Do you want me to come see you?

Maybe they were pun flowers and they found a snapping snapdragon, haha.

I think it would be much harder to take a flower if it seemed like it were sad to be picked though...

Of course it does.

[Just like that.]

What kind of pretty things?

[SICK BUDDY SICK BUDDY LET'S...LAMENT OUR MUTUAL ILLNESS TOGETHER YEAH]

Oooo a big city would be so nice too. Are you from a big city?? Which one???

[YEAAAAH]

r u from earth?? its a big city called los angeles, one of the biggest cities in the country

i grew up there so im really used to everything being busy and stuff

[There is a fairly long pause here, while she thinks about it, considers demurring, considers NOT demurring, and eventually decides: ]

Yes. But I don't want to get you sick either. ʃ(-﹏-。✿)ƪ

You're not going to have to look very hard for all those flowers. You know why? (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

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