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[voluntaryapnea]

[Well here we go. He is on a ship and he thinks for the briefest of moments about making a joke about calling it the Ship of Dreams because Lydia has made him watch Titanic a few too many times. But it sounds lame even to him, and he's still not feeling that great about...anything, really.

After a long moment of hesitation, he turns the camera on and gives a small smile that looks a bit more like a grimace than anything. His tone is light and friendly, even if his expression is tired, his skin a bit too pale, and there are bags under his eyes that indicate it's been awhile since he's had any decent sleep. He's still cold, still achy and nauseous, but he knows he's going to get better from that eventually. In theory.]

So I have to admit that the irony in this is kind of hilarious. I mean, my dad's a sheriff and I'm not even out of high school and here I am on a ship about to be a warden.

[He pauses. Warden definitely beats being possessed, so he's rolling with it. It's what he does.]

Can't say this is exactly how I figured things would turn out, buuuut. [He shrugs, looking down for a moment.] It sort of does beat the alternative, so I guess I'm happy to be here.

I'm Stiles Stilinski.

Comments

[voluntaryapnea]

Not in my time. I mean, we've been to the moon. And we've got a space station and satellites, but actual travel isn't...super common. I think it's mostly a funding thing. And not having the money or knowledge to build the kind of equipment needed.

Is it pretty common for where you're from?

[givessweetness]

Well, no, not really. But it's a matter of policy rather than capability. Gallifrey, my world, keeps itself to itself, for the most part. The president, she invited aliens, including humans, to our world to study in our Academy.

[voluntaryapnea]

[He has never heard of Gallifrey, but he's going to assume that's one of the alternate dimension kinds of things or one of the places that NASA has yet to discover back home.]

Well, sounds like your president's pretty considerate. So it's not difficult to travel back and forth across space, but it's a little issue?

[givessweetness]

Well, we have the secrets to time travel as well, considering we came up with it first. So people are pretty protective of our secrets and, I suppose, it's felt like there's nothing to learn with how much information we have, already gathered.

But mostly it's the former.

[voluntaryapnea]

Oh. I have to admit, I can't imagine knowing everything there is to know about space or time travel. But it definitely sounds like you're light years ahead of where people where I'm from.

[givessweetness]

We've had a billion or so year head start, really, so I wouldn't compare.

[voluntaryapnea]

Dude, really? A billion year head start?

[givessweetness]

[Wynter, hilariously, is a bit sheepish.] Conservatively.

[voluntaryapnea]

[He can't help but grin a little at that, amused.]

A billion years. Conservatively. Got it. [He nods.]

[givessweetness]

More of a full body start than a head one.