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E N T R A P T A ([personal profile] sciencegirl) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere 2021-03-28 01:15 pm (UTC)

"You know, I keep thinking that it's the ICPs doing it but that makes me wonder how they're doing it in the Quiet Car, unless the train really thinks we're being quiet in there. Honestly more of us use it for science than we use it for quiet, I think. Oh, by the way, I'll probably need that second crate of robot parts soon because I'm almost ready to finish up that project."

She's got the blueprint down and she was just reminded because she'd been doing so much of the work in there.

"Well, considering dying is inconvenient let's do our best to keep it that way. But don't tell anyone I said this? Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do... A lot of people like you, though, so you dying ends up being inconvenient for their productivity. They start worrying and then they get paranoid and they try to keep an eye on you rather than on mission goals so just... y'know... be careful."

The worst part is that it's not a veiled attempt to say she's worried. She genuinely means it as she says it. She's chased way too many aggressive robots out of delighted curiosity to intend otherwise.

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