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[darkart]

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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[pushfall]

Not for airlocks. I'm not actually suicidal.

[darkart]

But you went looking for something aside from airlocks, then.

[pushfall]

Nothing in particular. I wouldn't even know where to start. But the idea of sitting around and waiting for something bad to happen makes me feel kind of restless. More restless, I guess.

[darkart]

Hence the social call.

[pushfall]

Actually I was just saying hi.

[darkart]

I see.

[pushfall]

Yep.

[ The most awkward of turtles. ]

[pushfall]

So what did you think about that whole post from a supposed crew member?

[darkart]

[ This comes a while later. ]

A ghost.

I say that knowing my theory will be recorded by whatever power that resurrected her through the machines, as it surely runs this network also.

[pushfall]

You actually believe in ghosts?

[ It's not until after she sends the message that she remembers oh, right, magic. Though she's not sure if that extends to ghosts. ]

[darkart]

One of my co-workers is a ghost.

I don't think it's the same, but I don't know another word for it.

[pushfall]

I'm not sure if that's cool or terrifying.

What about like a memory? Like an echo that came to life. I guess that would constitute as a ghost. What if she's not even real and the ship is just trying to get everyone to look in one direction?

[darkart]

Yes. Collected as electronic data instead of a spirit. Either that or someone very heat resistant, but I wonder about the jump drive.

Headline news tactics?

[pushfall]

There are people who are pretty heat resistant. If it actually does get disabled, I'm going to be really annoyed it managed to get me right before.

Maybe. People are already pretty suspicious, though.

[darkart]

I suspect she's already succeeded.

As they should be.

[pushfall]

I hadn't thought about that.

[darkart]

If the information offered upon arrival is to be believed, the drive is faulty. We may be witnessing something that has already come to pass.

[pushfall]

Then what's the point in letting us see it? To prove that hope is basically futile? Rhetorical question. But I can't imagine that whatever we're supposedly up against is going to be overly helpful with clues.

[ Also maybe she should read more. ]

[darkart]

I have no idea. It could be anything from an attempt to show us the history of this place to a simple accident to, as you said, a distraction.

[pushfall]

There's got to be a way of figuring it out. Some people have been here for years. Someone has to know something.

[darkart]

Knowing is very different from understanding, and even more different than applying.

And it seems a number of people are content to know nothing.

[pushfall]

That's stupid. I'd rather die because I figured something out than live in ignorance.

[darkart]

Yes.

[pushfall]

Have you heard anything about Engineering?

[darkart]

I've heard that it's too warm to enter, and that it's having a difficult time maintaining consistent form.