[ TEXT ] in which cambridge makes a polite enquiry about her location

[mindsext]

[ Hello, fellow crewmembers. If your device wasn’t on before IT CERTAINLY IS NOW! Cambridge - still nursing the mental wound of her power being so rudely culled and currently feeling obnoxiously disorientated - technopathically shoves a text transmission your way: ]

if somebody doesn't tell me exactly where the fuck I am then I am airlocking the

Comments

text;

[of_two]

The threat of violence is unwarranted and further, inconducive to resolution of the present circumstances.

text;

[mindsext]

and what exactly do you suggest we do instead.

text;

[of_two]

Communication appears a viable alternative.

text;

[mindsext]

that's what I'm doing. communicating a threat of violence.

text;

[of_two]

You do not believe it will beget violence?

text;

[mindsext]

I'm yet to see. are you here to answer my question.

text;

[of_two]

We are aboard a starship in a yet undeclared portion of space for similarly undeclared reasons. That is the extent of my knowledge.

I am inclined, however, to inform you that releasing the airlocks of this vessel will decrease the likelihood that your questions are adequately answered by 98.8%.

text;

[mindsext]

I was rather hoping that it wouldn't come to it. who are you.

text;

[of_two]

I am Spock. Also misappropriated to this vessel.
May I request your name?

text;

[mindsext]

Imogen Moore but whilst on board you might as well call me Cambridge. Rather good at percentages, aren't you. Don't suppose you went to my university?

text;

[of_two]

As you request, Cambridge. I do however, find the probability of our mutual academic facilities most unlikely, as I do not originate from Earth.

text;

[mindsext]

[ oh god this whole alien thing is definitely beginning to unnerve her... but god damn it, she is not going to let is show. In fact, scathing humour is apparently now the way forward. ]

a shame. you must be an oxford fellow then.

text;

[of_two]

Shall I presume you desire adequate time in which to process this information?

text;

[mindsext]

don't get sassy with me, space man. I was merely indulging in a private joke.

[ there's an unimpressed hairflip going on at Cambridge's end of the comms system. If only this was a video feed. ]

where are you from. don't say mars.

text;

[of_two]

I am Vulcan.

Upon which, there was no Oxford.

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[mindsext]

and I'm quite sure your dear Vulcan is all the better for it.

[ oh god, Oxbridge varsity, she cannot resist. To the extent that she completely misses Spock's use of the past tense. Whoops. ]