Practice threading for Distant Skies!

[jurisimpudent]

I'll not waste my breath pointing out the utter idiocy of your plans to join this game; such words are, to my way of thinking, trite by virtue of their inevitability. Yes, you - like nearly everyone else - have comparatively limited time. And, of course, you wish to play the martyr over this, agonize and complain, so that others will know just how busy and important you are. I'm not going to enable such self-indulgent behavior.

Rather, I'll merely tell you this: if you think you're so utterly and terribly busy, if you think that you've so little time, then don't waste it further with whining. Instead, make it count. I've no use for someone who will dither rather than be a productive member of society.

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[foresee]

...No, considering I have no idea what that is.

[jurisimpudent]

How charming. Do you know what a court is?

[foresee]

No.

[jurisimpudent]

Well. Where I come from, "guilt" and "innocence" with regards to a crime are established by two parties arguing against one another. I will be one of those parties, once I am deemed ready.

[foresee]

So you argue for a living. Don't you have a system that decides that all for you?

[jurisimpudent]

I am that system.

[foresee]

Just you?

[He'll get a scrutinizing look from her.]

Under whose authority?

[jurisimpudent]

I and a number of others, under the authority of the justly elected government of the United States.

[foresee]

I wasn't aware the United States still existed. What dome are you from?

[jurisimpudent]

...Dome?

[awakenings]

Dome. City structure. I imagine you had to have some sort of enclosed shelter to live in since you're still breathing. What was it called?

[jurisimpudent]

Los Angeles. Which was trapped under a dome of nothing but smog.

[awakenings]

Smog, huh? And you're still alive. I'm surprised, though I can't say I've ever heard of the place.

[jurisimpudent]

...Well, I do not live there now. But it's still perfectly habitable, thank you.

[awakenings]

Is it? How?

[jurisimpudent]

With...air, and trees, et cetera?

[awakenings]

And they're real?

[jurisimpudent]

Unless I've gone mad, yes, they are. Why? Do you not have real trees?

[awakenings]

We do - [Or, rather, did.] - but they're in a carefully controlled environment within the dome.

[jurisimpudent]

What is this..."dome" you keep referencing?

[awakenings]

My city. And judging by the fact that you don't even know what I'm talking about, you've never seen one, have you?

[jurisimpudent]

No. I haven't. The closest I've heard of are the Biospheres.

[awakenings]

It's something like those.

[jurisimpudent]

You know of them?

[awakenings]

They're the original concepts for the dome itself.

[A pause.]

What did you say your name was, again?