001 // you are the moon

[diomedea]

Who: River Tam and YOU
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: SS First Breath
When: After the shuffle!

[River is eating her dessert and thinking to herself. And then, suddenly, she smiles.]

Little planet, your moon is here. Calling to the home star, zero one zero one, she is safe. He is a small planet but he has so much gravity, he pulls her, safe, safe, sleep now shh.

[And then she looks into the camera with a smile.]

She can dance here, it's safe, far away from the watchful eyes, the sterile hands that grasp and pull. They drag her under, but not anymore. Can't cross the verse, the veil, the plane, like a curtain between the players.

She is safe here, little albatross. She can fly now.

[And then she tilts her head a little and laughs happily.]

Hello!

Comments

[child_of_bhaal]

That's very true. I've only done it once before this place. It's not bad, but I miss things like mountains and waterfalls.

[Inns with too loud patronage, and more rats than in the fields. A sun and a moon that are always reliable. Rain and wind.]

But then, I'm not a very good sailor. I bet you are though.

[diomedea]

She wants to fly.

[She smiles a little.]

Maybe one day.

[child_of_bhaal]

Maybe one day soon. The people who bring us here give us a skill. Maybe they'll teach you to fly.

[diomedea]

[She smiles widely, and nods.]

She wanted to learn. But that was in a different book, a different stanza.

[child_of_bhaal]

I think learning is the best part of knowledge, but I guess they don't really have the time for that in this situation.

[Also you can't guarantee enthusiasm of your students if you're abducting them.]

[diomedea]

She doesn't believe in the books because she knows it's illogical. You don't believe because you've seen too much and the gods are too human?

[Which seems to come out of left field, but she's curious.]

[child_of_bhaal]

[It's hard to surprise Syeira these days, which is something she kind laments. So the insight only gets a little brow raise. She's had people read her mind before, but never so interestingly.]

Don't get me wrong, I love books. Books are a foundation to all learning, and a record of all things that have been learned, seen, and thought. But they only take you so far.

[diomedea]

How do you propose to solve the Ark problem? Impossible to fit all the animals in a ship like that. It's a problem.

[child_of_bhaal]

[She tilts her head, because she doesn't understand the reference, not being of Terran decent. Animals, in a ship? What?]

I'm not sure I follow the metaphor.

[diomedea]

Matters of Books and faith, from Earth-That-Was.

[Stated simply.]

[child_of_bhaal]

Ah, I see. Some kind of parable then? I'm still not sure what it means though, in relation to me. I have a multitude of problems but I'm not trying to fit-

[It hits her then. The only thing it could mean.]

I- I honestly don't know. You can't undo things that have been done. I'm just...taking the days as they come.

[And trying not to think about how afraid of losing herself she is. Without her friends, her formed family, she doesn't have anyone who knows, no one who she can use to anchor herself. There's no life line here, if she gets lost. And the Taint is always pushing.]