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[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.

[palfriday]

[shoulders droop] You already know I can't... Why do you want to bother the dead, anyway? They never really seem to appreciate it!

[skaikru]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie", or something. They're not really dead until they're at peace, and until then I think they deserve our recognition and remembrance.

[palfriday]

... [gently] You do not want to know how close that quote is, Clarke...

[skaikru]

( firmly, but also bordering on begging: ) But Friday, I do. I feel like I have to.

[palfriday]

... If the pain they'll cause you isn't convincing, is the pain you'll cause enough? Let them be.

[skaikru]

( it should be.

it really, really should be. and yet — )

I'm not going to hurt anyone. It'd stay with me. I truly believe that, but it'd be easier to accomplish with a little guidance.

[palfriday]

[a long sigh]

Your belief... isn't right.

[skaikru]

What, so you've tested this before?