Going to: The Box

[quintet]

Really? This from the person who thought 'what is malice' made for a useful essay. You have real work to be doing, you know. Work with a deadline, mind you.

Are you even listening? I'm not interested in your stupid mind-games! I'm not some kind of vacuous creature you can just partition off and throw away!

Geez, now I'm starting to sound like Meander.

Are you even listening to me?!

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[evilhandissues]

[Talking animal. Well.]

Least you won't be alone.

[quintet]

Is that meant to be comforting?

[femshep]

Probably not. It takes a hell of a lot to get their attention these days, and tossing a few insults around isn't going to cut it.

[quintet]

Thank you for pointing out the obvious. You're really picking up on today's theme of 'say things an idiot dog would say.'

Speaking of him, that nincompoop is about to get himself killed, so I'm not kidding when I say I don't have time for this stuff right now. Where's the exit?

[femshep]

If I knew that, I damn sure wouldn't be here, now would I? [ Her tone's tense, but what can I say? This cat just fucking sassed her. ]

Look, if he's not dead yet, he won't be when you get back. The kid at the keyboard yanked you out of the flow of time, or something like it.

[quintet]

I've known my fair share of suicidal salad-brains. You could be one of them— what are you, anyways?

[Quintet uses sarcasm as her primary defense against stress.]

The flow of...time? I can't believe in something that stupid really existing. How could you tell? It's completely intangible, isn't it?

[femshep]

Human. Mostly.

[ And to that second part... ] Some people show up a first time, disappear, and show up again later saying a week, year, or decade's gone by. When they went back, it dropped them right where they left off.

Take that as you will.

[quintet]

[Quintet just. Stares.]

Wow.

[Yep. Clearly she's dealing with a crazy person. We will leave time-travel by the wayside, for now.]

Of course you're human, what else would you be, a mantid?! You can speak and reason, if you want to call that reason so obviously you're human. Species, I'm asking for your species!