[32] - [Voice]

[failedcreator]

It is most unlikely that we will all live to such ages. A scant few do in the best of places. [In Victor's time.] I do not appreciate such unnatural acts by the Admiral. It is most impolite.

I also have a request from those who are not as human as others. I would like to hear stories of your lives, if you wish to share.

[Private - Sveta]I know we

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private/written

[lifeafterhope]

My work's not done. But I did say I'd share what I found, didn't I?

[A page or so worth of a spreadsheet-like array of unexplained numbers and abbreviations follows.]

Nothing too interesting yet.

[Added a bit later:] You're asking for stories from nonhumans. Is it only curiosity?

private/written

[failedcreator]

Your work seems most interesting, if rather incomprehensible. Is it in some form of code?

It is only curiosity, yes. It has been a point of contention between my warden and myself.

private/written

[lifeafterhope]

No, it's only that I've been working at it so long that it's faster to keep measurements this way.

Are you from an Earth?

private/written

[failedcreator]

There is logic here, I imagine. My own notes were once written in a concise shorthand also.

Yes, I am indeed. From Geneva, Switzerland.

private/written

[lifeafterhope]

And there are only humans there?

private/written

[failedcreator]

Naturally it is so. [Pause.] Save for one exception, but we will not speak of that business.

private/written

[lifeafterhope]

Naturally?

To me, the thought of a planet with only one people is the strange one. But it seems the Admiral doesn't care to have people aboard who could never pass for human...

private/written

[failedcreator]

You must come from a strange world indeed. Mine does not possess such unusual creatures.