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[darkart]

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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[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.

[pushfall]

I wonder how hot it really is in there.

[darkart]

Why?

[pushfall]

It's obviously trying to keep people out. I just wonder why.

[darkart]

Well, maybe she's not a ghost and the drive is trying to prevent itself from being blown up by a woman whom it hasn't managed to lose or kill yet.

[ Still side-eying. Don't think he missed that bit about people who're heat resistant. ]

[pushfall]

That still doesn't explain why this is the first anyone has seen or heard from her.

[ Well. Only kinda. ]

[darkart]

As far as we know.

[pushfall]

I'm going to try talking to her.

[darkart]

To slow her down or to tell her to go ahead and break it?

[pushfall]

I don't think I know enough about this place to tell her to do one or the other, but maybe she knows... I don't know. Something.

[darkart]

She seems to know what the hell's going on with the ship, but isn't saying out of disbelief that we don't.

[ Which is UNHELPFUL, Charlotte. ]

[pushfall]

Maybe she just needs someone to calm her down long enough to take a breath.

[darkart]

If you were her, would you trust anyone trying to 'calm you down'?

[pushfall]

I wouldn't be her.

[darkart]

No final call before the finishing blow, or no noble sacrifices?

[pushfall]

You ask the hard questions. Teacher instinct?