001 | video

[runsthepath]

[[ooc; Blue is Ghanima. Black is Leto.]]

[ The video feed flicks on with little ado - no curses or crashing or large blurs of motion. There’s nothing besides a young teenage girl’s face - somewhere between 14 and 16 - with blond hair bobbing in a ponytail as she walks, the screen with it - blue eyes lit up with a very abnormal glow. For all

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[stand_witness]

[ text; anon]

[ Well. Organics that speak of the past, and future as being one, and the same? But...your life cycles are so short. How is that possible? ]

Query; previous encounter(s) with temporal flux phenomena?

[besidethepath]

[ She doesn't have much difficulty with the switch to text, though she notes the use of it rather than the default video. ]

None. I have run, with time, in it's straight current. Though with expanded sight.

[stand_witness]

[ He prefers it better than video. And keeping the anon trace around for now. ]

Riddles in re; temporal flux
Use of obscure metaphors; deliberate?

[ Believe it or not, Soundwave is honestly interested, and non-hostile just now, too. Not, you know, that it probably translates well. ]

[besidethepath]

[ She smiles a little on her end of the phone, not that Soundwace can see. She's not Leto, so she'll try for making a bit more sense. ]

Habit. Much of time resides within my memories. They blur.

[stand_witness]

[ That's handy. A pity Soundwave doesn't much worry about the sense making thing. ]

Optical lighting, dermal abnormality noted
Secondary Query; Species designation?

[besidethepath]

[ The manner of speaking is all very curious and she's searching for a place or time she might be able to remember it from, though Ghani's free with her answers. ]

A side-effect of Spice. Are you familiar?
Human.

[stand_witness]

[ 'Spice'? No, that's not a human term, slang or otherwise, that Soundave's familiar with. ]

Known definition re; "Spice";

Noun: any of various aromatic vegetable products (as pepper or nutmeg) used to season or flavor foods

No further definitions noted
Theory; "Spice" equates to chemical enhancement?

[besidethepath]

You've yet to visit Dune. [ As if this actually explains anything? ]

The Twenty-first century A.D. would call it a drug.

[stand_witness]

Human classification re; "Time", "Spice", ( et al ) flawed

[ Annnd, taking a stab in the dark, here, since you're not the first folks that are displaced from their proper times he's seen. ]

"Dune" classification; home world?

[besidethepath]

Flawed based on what staple of 'correct'?

One of them. [ She wouldn't be an Atreides if she didn't make a habit of being vague and cheeky, mkay? ]

[stand_witness]

Statistically based on personal experience, organic and non.

[ Oh, he likes you. You can't possibly be human, then! Marvel at the logic at work here ]

Designation?

[besidethepath]

[ There's a slight pause before another message is sent. ] 'Non?'

Ghanima Atreides. And yours?

[stand_witness]

[ Text; Video; Decepticon Encrypted ( Yeah, the encryptions are going up ) ]

[ And the video feed kicks on to show...well. A robot. Or rather, the blank, mirrored faceplate of a robot. Text still scrolls across the screen, though. ]

Inorganic organisms observed frequently, current data compilation of non-terrestrial organics in progress

Designation: Soundwave

[besidethepath]

video; sticking with the Decepticon Encryption, though Leto is right next to her and can easily look at the screen :'|

[ There's a pause while she blinks at the screen for a moment, genuinely surprised. Which is... quite a new thing for Ghanima. It takes her a second to switch to video, the surprise still slightly showing on her features. ]

You're... a thinking-machine. [ She searches her other lives for a word more relevant, remembering that this machine is unaware of Dune, thus possibly no where close to the Butlerian Jihad in terms of world memory. Or possibly even within it? ] Artificial Intelligence.

What time where you brought forth from?

[runsthepath]

action/vido;

[Leto's watching this over his sister's shoulder. And he speaks to her, not really caring that the robot can hear.]

We won't be able to measure all of these creatures against the history of a single universe.

[PS: There are a ton of alien species here too.]

[stand_witness]

Phrasing;

[ Parroting your voice back at you, Ghani. ]

thinking-machine--

[ And back to text. ]

Invalid
Personal species classification; Autonomous robotic organism, Cybertronian

[ Oh, lovely. The annoying kid with the skin condition is reading over her shoulder. Soundwave sort of figured Ghanima would share knowledge with the human male she showed up with, if only because they appear to be allies.
Still, pointedly allowing Ghanima to see, and have his designation over Leto is just a way of showing how rude he finds Leto.

As is ignoring him, now. ]

Human time measurement marked; 2010 A.D.
Personal memory files extend pre, and post wartime, Exodus, salvage operation

Familiarity with planet Cybertron; y/n?