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Who: Clay
Broadcast: Video, fleet-wide
Action: The Marsiva!
When: Jan 20th

[ It's odd waking up, mostly because Clay doesn't actually do it all that often. In fact he's fairly certain to date he's only ever woken up proper twice before now, and he doesn't recall having run out of power. He's actually doing quite well with that, but as he pushes himself up in bed he still reaches up unconsciously to lay a have over his chest to feel the warm thrum of the core within. Everything appears to be normal.

Everything but his surroundings anyway because those don't make any sense either now that he's starting to pay attention to them. Clay runs a hands through his hair out of reflex (he'd check for bumps or bruises if he thought he was capable of having them), takes a moment to let his lips purse at one side of his mouth, and then stands with a clap. ]

Guess I should see if anyone's home. [ Because he figures he must have been collected again somehow. Funny how that always seems to keep happening. ]

Hello~? [ Come out come out wherever you are... While he starts inspecting literally everything and anything he can get his curious hands on. ]

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Fair enough. It's not exactly a common trait among people is it? Especially the little ones. [ You know, children and such. ]

[ That's... an odd way to phrase that. ]

No, it's not. Thus me being a bit confused here.

Have you tried people-watching before? [ What Clay's really getting at is whether Chris himself fancies himself a patient man. ]

No. I usually don't have time.

[ Hard question to answer when he comes from a Bad End future where no one really has time to stop and smell the roses. ]

You keep busy then? [ Honey.... ]

Plenty. Except... here. Like I said, there's not much to the whole setup.

So then what do you do, if there's not much to it?

I've been messing with the ship I've been stuck on, checking out the waystations in the area. [ He's also being grounded since his dad arrived but he's not gonna mention that part. ]

...Wouldn't doing something like that not be in your best interests? There's nothing to breathe in space. [ ...Wow, he knows that too now. Sweet. ]

[ Chris pauses, then puts his hand to his face again. ]

All the places we go have life support.

You avoided the question~

What question?

Whether it's in your best interests to meddle around with your ship when it provides you with air in space.

[ There is such an eyeroll here. ]

I know better than to turn off life support, thanks.

Just checking~ I know I forget sometimes. [ Mostly because he doesn't, you know...breathe. People drowning is still a thing he isn't really aware of, yet. ]

You forget... to use common sense?

Oh no, I have plenty of that. It's just all that air business. [ He waves a hand dismissively. ]

[ Yeah, uh... what? ]

What?

The thing you breathe. [ Air. Helpful isn't he? ]

[ That's when it clicks. ]

You're not human.

[ Ooh, that's unexpected. He's never met anyone who's only seen his projection get it that fast. ]

How did you know? [ He is odd mind you, but most humans in his world would have just claimed him weird and left it at that. Non-humans are somewhat of a rarity, if not extinct from a Golem perspective. ]

For starters, you said the thing you breathe, not the thing we breathe.

[ There's more to it, but little things like that pile up for Chris. Not to mention there are nonhumans pretty much everywhere in his life back home, although all of those need to breathe too. He's just not used to defaulting to human if someone acts weird. ]

Edited 2015-01-21 05:34 (UTC)

Well I did mean the general "you"...was that really all it took?

No. Just call it a hunch, leave it at that.

Well that's got me more curious than ever. No one would've jumped to that conclusion where I'm from...

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