driftfleet | 01 ( video + action )

Who: Lydia Martin + you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Marsiva
When: 27/1

( This time when Lydia awakes it's easier. No screaming, but still confusion. She's still in her Eichen House gown, hair messy and limbs feeling tired - achy from the lack of use even though it's only been a few days.

The first few seconds - maybe even first minute - of the transmission are met with silence, the image showing Lydia looking around the room, walking closer to the walls to examine them. After all that's just happened, after being trapped in her head, it's hard for Lydia to know whether this is real or not. Touching the wall helps slightly, but everything with Meredith had felt just as real )

Is it real? ( Her voice is soft, a little confused - dazed. There's something of a fog in Lydia's mind that isn't just from the recent events. Like there's something that she should remember but is having trouble with - or somewhere ) It isn't Eichen House.

( Not Eichen House. Possibly real. The only places that Lydia had seen in her head were places that she'd been before. If only waking up in unfamiliar places wasn't so unusual for Lydia )

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( It's a few hours later when Lydia's roaming around the ship. She'd wanted to wait to see if there were any answers to her question, and to get her bearings some more with what there was. There was little in the room that Lydia could find for herself - or of her own things. No other clothes, no belongings or familiar items.

As Lydia walks the hallways, still in her Eichen House clothes, there's an occasional hand touching the wall. Although Lydia has heard answers, and even spoken to some that are familiar, she wants to know. Be sure. Be sure that there isn't something about the Dread Doctors involved here - that it's really happening. Lydia doesn't know what she's looking for. Someone in person to really confirm it? Food? New clothes would definitely be nice. It might take a few hours - or a day or two before the reality of this really sets in. Being in space? So different to supernatural creatures )

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As real as it gets, unfortunately. [Not that he can blame her for asking. Sometimes, this whole experience feels like a dream.]

How're you holding up?

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Like I've just been kidnapped.

( Which turns to confused, a little scared. The fact that there are so many others here is concerning, and if the Doctors hadn't done this- was he one of them? Or working for them? She didn't know enough )

Do you know how we get here?

[He shakes his head.] There've been theories, but nothing concrete.

We don't know how to leave, either. Not that people've tried. We're just... you know, millions of light years away from Earth, or wherever else you happen to be from.

[He'd guess Earth, since that's the prevailing planet, but he also knows what happens to people who assumes stuff.]

Earth. ( But also- somewhere else? There's a niggling feeling in her mind as if there's also somewhere else she's been ) If these are ships can't we just put in where we want to go?

You'd think, but our ships are incapable of leaving the Marsiva's range.

[Not that he's tried. Stefan sees very little point in trying to break free in the middle of outer space.]

That, and unless you've got piloting experience, it's difficult to manage.

Incapable why?

( Sounds like time to call a mechanic to fix that )

And with the amount of people that are here someone could have experience.

Various reasons. You'd have to ask an engineer for specifics, but if we try to fly out of the Marsiva's range, we get sent back inside.

The tech's pretty sophisticated, even for people familiar with outer space travel. [The more he states facts, the worse he feels about it. No wonder Stefan doesn't dwell on it often.] Sometimes, I think they negated that "experience" part on purpose.

Then getting out of here will have some other solution. If we can't use these shis we find something else.

( There's always a way of getting home, even if sometimes you're sent back by a god rather than it being a choice )

[He agrees with the idea. The execution, well...]

I sure hope so, but considering how long this cycle's lasted, a lot of us have ruled out the obvious.

Then we know what not to waste our time on.

Yeah, I guess we do.

I'm Stefan, by the way. [Introductions are still important!] I'm Lab Support on the Paisley, should you ever need someone to patch you up.

Lydia.

How would I get to the Paisley if I did need that?

Once you're assigned a ship, you can take a shuttle and visit any of the others. Or, since we're at a station now, you can get on the others when they're docked.

If you mean, how to get here from the Marsiva? You're kinda stuck 'til Saturday.

Why don't they let you do anything before then?

Because on Saturday, Atroma'll teleport you to your ship. [eyebrow raise] You can try to find an exit on the Marsiva, but I didn't see one when I was there.

Why Saturday? Why not Friday?

Now that, I don't know. I'd ask our hosts, but they've been radio silent for a while.

Do they usually talk to us?

They used to. They'd announce each Shuffle with a broadcast, but now, nothing. It's like they're not even listening.

Or they're waiting for something.

If they are, they've been waiting a long time. I haven't heard from them since October.

The longer they wait the more we panic, or try something that they can stop.

Entirely possible, but I'm also thinking that we're out of their frequency.

Wouldn't be the first time.

If we're out of their frequency then who is watching us?

[shrug] No idea.

Certainly not any of the planets we've visited.

video.

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