Aren't I!... But I'm sorry to say, I do probably still have more questions. Obnoxiousness might vary.
But I don't really like feeling like I'm interrogating you or anything so... is there anything I can do to make this a little more equal, though? Maybe if I could offer something than just pie?
There really isn't anything I'd care to know about anything, and I don't really want things... If it makes you feel better, I really don't care about that sort of thing! After all, it's what I was created to do!
Even so, it's nice to learn what you might like or want more than just what you were created. The Captain didn't create you to love or like Miss Jenny, right? But surely you wouldn't want to give that up.
I'll ask questions, but when I'm done I'd like to give you something else too.
[ all right, so. time to consult his phone because apparently he has a little list of questions, ] Hm, to start with... and these really aren't intended to offend,
Are you 'alive' exactly, do you experience emotions? Do you fantasize abou--actually, do you fantasize of anything in particular? How many 'batches' of passengers have there been, before us?
"Alive" is a pretty complicated word... But, since we're in the Captain's realm, and I can go onto the bridge with no problems, I suppose I'm not really alive, by that definition! Whether I actually experience emotions or just perform them is a strictly philosophical question, though!
[pause, cocks head]
Hundreds? Thousands? I really did stop counting after a while, and the Captain never started counting at all!
Not alive… [ an answer could have gone either way but it seems he was rather guessing it’d be alive than not.
the huge number would probably be daunting to someone who isn’t thousands of years old; as it is, it’s still pretty daunting though. ]
What caused the previous passengers to fail? How can we be different and avoid their mistakes? [ perfect cooperation? but how possible could that be… ]
It seems like voyages end one of two ways: the Captain gets bored and tosses out the whole thing, or he manages to get one of them to betray all the others and then gets rid of that one! [beat] Oh, except for the one time he didn't do the last part! Two and a half!
She really got the farthest out of thousands of tries, did she.
[ hm, well... to be honest, he doesn't quite have questions in mind beyond that, but he's also not exactly a detective-y type. if he could be curious about one thing though, ]
If you feel like it, could you tell me a little more about the two of you? How you grew to like and then love each other... what drew you to her or her to you? Your love story together.
Oh, gosh... Lots of passengers have flirted with me, you see! Some people are just naturally like that, and she seemed to be, too, so I never really thought too much about it... But, I'd never... I'd never, um. I'd never had someone... make the Captain fix me, before. Before he was ready to do it! But, they told me later, when I was awake, that she'd spent a whole hour yelling at him, refusing to let him continue his game until...
[her voice grows slightly small]
Nobody had ever done that before. [pause] That was it, for me.
She truly does care for you... [ o-oh, that's a touching story. but jenny definitely did strike him as the kind of person who really would go through hell for who she cared for, like her siblings. ]
By 'fix', did he... break you? Or kill you, and she wanted to bring you back?
If he kills you again, like he did at the dinner party, perhaps we could yell at him to restore you like Miss Jenny did. Quite a lot of us care for you, you know.
[ so, from the depths of the tote bag he brings out... two jewelry boxes, containing twobracelets. he opens the lid of each to show her. ]
I don't know if you've been to the Tommy Bahama, but... perhaps you can keep one and give the other to Miss Jenny, if--when you see her again. It's nice to have matching things with a loved one, do you think?
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But I don't really like feeling like I'm interrogating you or anything so... is there anything I can do to make this a little more equal, though? Maybe if I could offer something than just pie?
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I'll ask questions, but when I'm done I'd like to give you something else too.
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Are you 'alive' exactly, do you experience emotions? Do you fantasize abou--actually, do you fantasize of anything in particular? How many 'batches' of passengers have there been, before us?
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[pause, cocks head]
Hundreds? Thousands? I really did stop counting after a while, and the Captain never started counting at all!
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the huge number would probably be daunting to someone who isn’t thousands of years old; as it is, it’s still pretty daunting though. ]
What caused the previous passengers to fail? How can we be different and avoid their mistakes? [ perfect cooperation? but how possible could that be… ]
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[ hm, well... to be honest, he doesn't quite have questions in mind beyond that, but he's also not exactly a detective-y type. if he could be curious about one thing though, ]
If you feel like it, could you tell me a little more about the two of you? How you grew to like and then love each other... what drew you to her or her to you? Your love story together.
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[her voice grows slightly small]
Nobody had ever done that before. [pause] That was it, for me.
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By 'fix', did he... break you? Or kill you, and she wanted to bring you back?
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If he kills you again, like he did at the dinner party, perhaps we could yell at him to restore you like Miss Jenny did. Quite a lot of us care for you, you know.
[ ... ] Platonically of course!
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A-anyway, I think that's it for questions for now~! Yes! But I have one more thing for you for putting up with me and showing me your... your eating.
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[ so, from the depths of the tote bag he brings out... two jewelry boxes, containing two bracelets. he opens the lid of each to show her. ]
I don't know if you've been to the Tommy Bahama, but... perhaps you can keep one and give the other to Miss Jenny, if--when you see her again. It's nice to have matching things with a loved one, do you think?
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Well... She does look prettiest in gold... [and that makes her silver, then.]
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