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THE CAPTAIN:


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[skaikru]

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But you can go into the Captain's quarters. How's this door any different?

[palfriday]

It's exactly the same! After all, I can only go in there when he lets me!

[and y'know sometimes he just locks her out to be funny.]

[skaikru]

( pissy teenager taking it out on his mommy by slamming doors vibes intensify... )

I feel like he should let you go in there now. A bunch of them just revolted, you got possessed, part of the ship caved in. Wouldn't it be important to make sure nothing else weird's going on down there?

[palfriday]

[cocks head] Why? It's not like there's anything important in there!

[skaikru]

( same way there's nothing interesting behind the bridge? )

Then why bother to lock it so securely?

[palfriday]

[there isn't it's just vhs tapes and boning.]

Well, passengers aren't allowed in the crew area!

[skaikru]

( a little blockbuster, a little bone busting and — oh, you know, the erda flow. )

I know it's not the standard, but I'd really like to talk to them.

[palfriday]

Well, that's something I can't really help you with!

[skaikru]

Can't really, or can't at all?

[palfriday]

... [thinks about it for a moment.]

Probably at all!

[skaikru]

Probably's good enough for me. Can we at least go down there and try?

[palfriday]

-- Oh, wait, you think...

No, no, I... was answering entirely separate questions!

[skaikru]

( yanno, she'd promised herself she'd be good and not lose her temper when coming down here, but there's an unbidden flash of aggrieved frustration dancing across her forehead. tinged with confusion though, because — )

...what?

[palfriday]

[a light laugh] If you were interested in talking with a ghost, the crew cabins would be just about the last place you'd want to try!

[skaikru]

( ...huh. )

Where do you recommend I start?

[palfriday]

... Well, who are you trying to talk to? That changes the answer!

[skaikru]

( originally the answer would have been: whichever ghost took my body for an hour and a half.

now, very suddenly and on the tail ends of remembering their last conversation, that changes. )

Whichever ghost the Captain's kept around the longest? You know, the one that made the strongest impression on him.

[palfriday]

... If they made impressions on him, they... wouldn't be ghosts...

[skaikru]

You said he keeps them around. That they still feel something.

...what are they if not ghosts?

[palfriday]

[hm...]

... Prisoners?

[skaikru]

( aren't we all?

but — hmm. )

How nice are their cages?

[palfriday]

[thinks...]

Not great!

[skaikru]

( hmmmm.... )

Which deck?

[palfriday]

... All... of them...?

[skaikru]

( hmmmm — yeah, no, she's lost it. the string connecting points on a map has been drawn too taught and snapped, clarke no longer feels like she has any grasp on what she's trying to talk about or what she's trying to ask, and it sucks. )

...Friday, I'm so happy you're back to being you, but could you please just give me one straight, step-by-step answer? I'll get out of your hair afterwards.