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[meadqueen]

Do you think these people care that much about what happens to us? If we can't survive long in these bodies they'll give us new ones.

[ichoosefight]

We've survived a week with no real problems. I don't know about you, but I don't feel anything wrong aside from hunger and thirst.

[meadqueen]

I feel strange but I'm not used to this kind of weather.

[Also she fell off a cliff but that's probably not important]

1/3

[ichoosefight]

If our organs were in the wrong place we would feel a hell of a lot worse.

I should know, it happened once!

2/3

[ichoosefight]

that's a joke

a very morbid joke

3/3

[ichoosefight]

but technically still true

[meadqueen]

I think I've changed my mind about wishing that I was one of you. It seems exhausting.

[ichoosefight]

wait what is one of me in this case

[meadqueen]

All of you airplane people, speaking your secret languages and insisting very authoritatively that some bizarre things are real but other equally bizarre things could not possibly be so.

[ichoosefight]

actually my organs getting mashed was more or less at Viking technology level

but "airplane people" does sound pretty cool

and yeah it's a fine line between crazy but believable and just plain crazy. sometimes it's not really a line at all. but don't you think that getting kidnapped through time and being a fake person taking up someone else's brain space are pretty equally crazy?

[meadqueen]

[Randvi’s grudge against airplanes specifically is kind of outsized considering she's only even known about them for five days. One of the first times she’d worked up the courage to reach out everyone had told her that her observations were wrong, this was a place for planes, and then she’d looked around for huge metal birds like an idiot but of course there aren't any.

It's a bit like how Senku keeps trying to tell her how much better electricity is than fire even though electricity sucks and doesn't work and she's had like five successful fires just on this island.

The first time she sees a plane she's going to be furious that they're real.]

They both absolutely sound crazy, but I had hoped to not be alone anymore.

[ichoosefight]

All I'm trying to say is, since either thing could be true and we have no way to be sure, why decide that the uncomfortable thing is more likely? Why torture yourself over a decision that nobody is asking you to make, that you might never be asked to make?

and also that having your organs messed up really hurts

1/2

[meadqueen]

Is it truly better to ignore the possibility and then be blindsided later?

2/2

[meadqueen]

Also I believe the aim in combat is to avoid being hit.

:)

[ichoosefight]

Damn, I knew I was doing something wrong.

I think, when your survival is on the line, it's okay to put that kind of thing off. Maybe I'm just worrying too much, but if thinking about it makes it that much harder to do the things you have to just to get through the next day, that's more important, right?

I also just really don't like the idea that you're trying to sacrifice yourself and you haven't even been given the opportunity yet.

[meadqueen]

Thank you.

[It does mean something, that her life matters to someone who has no obligations to her]

I just wish

The life I left behind when I was taken here, there has to be more than that.

[ichoosefight]

There is. No matter what's really going on here, I can tell you that. Life takes unexpected turns, whether you want it to or not, and there is always more to experience. I mean, just look at us now.

[meadqueen]

[For like the next two years in her own time, some truly wild sci-fi bullshit is going to happen around Randvi that will have her wishing that her worst problem was being trapped in her little room while everyone else gets to live, but unfortunately she doesn't know that yet]

That's true. In some ways, I feel like I'm waking up.

[ichoosefight]

Not always pleasant, right?

[meadqueen]

Parts of it are. I've not spent so much time in the open air in years.

[ichoosefight]

Why not?

[meadqueen]

Too much to do.

[ichoosefight]

And all of it had to be done indoors? Not even time for a walk?

[meadqueen]

Running a settlement requires a great deal more paperwork than you'd think.

I'm not permitted to leave the settlement without an escort, and inside the settlement there's rarely a moment's peace. I felt tethered to my table even when I wasn't beside it, and now the tether’s broken.

[ichoosefight]

You need an assistant.

But I think there are a few others things we can prioritize first.