009 // [VOICE] // WE ALL GET THE SAME QUESTIONS. EXCEPT THERE IS A TRANSLATOR.

[notpaid2dodge]

[Filtered away from Treize and Dorothy because the boy is not that dense]

Trying to stay off the Guide seemed like a good idea--best not to get attached to people when you can't be sure they'll stay.

[That, and having hair that refused to be anything but pink for three months after that one job? Didn't help the wanting-to-be-social business.

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[video]

[worldturnsshiny]

...It ain't that bad, is it? Folk comin' and goin'. Means there's always more to meet.

[voice]

[pacifisted]

Perhaps.

But meeting them is really all you get to do.

[permavid] beeeefore I eventually forget sob

[worldturnsshiny]

Seems like it's like that in a lotta places, though, not just here. Still don't mean it can't be fun in the meantime.

[permavoice] same, haha

[pacifisted]

It doesn't get old to you?

[worldturnsshiny]

Nah. Before we got here, only new folk we'd ever meet would be them that we was ferrying from place to place, and that was only for a week or so at most. It's just nice to chat when you can and then they go off on their lives.

[pacifisted]

Would you feel the same if they didn't remember?

[worldturnsshiny]

...It'd probably bother me a little. But most of the time, I wouldn't really know, right? And here it's all the fault of this da chung wu dahn of a skyplex, so it's not like they was just forgettin'.

[TRENDY SPACE CHINESE TRANSLATION: impressive but useless thing :|bb]

[pacifisted]

...No, probably not.

I guess that might make it easier to think about.

[worldturnsshiny]

Which, blamin' it on the ship instead of makin' it personal?

[pacifisted]

Yes. Just disappointing. Instead of something else.

[Please hold while he slowly works out which emotion is applicable.]

Not... angering. At least not at them. Though I'd still rather be on the ship than lost in space.

[worldturnsshiny]

Well, yeah, dunno many who'd rather be lost in space.

Would you be mad if someone forgot without all this ship nonsense gettin' involved?

[pacifisted]

I suppose that depends on what they have to lose.

If they could help it?

[A thread of frustration slipping through the underside of his words and tying them neatly together.]

...Yeah. Probably.

[worldturnsshiny]

You mean lost in space like- just drifting, right?

You make it sound like they'd forget on purpose.

[pacifisted]

I do.

[Now, which one is that an answer to?]

[worldturnsshiny]

[being made out of derp derp happee, she's assuming the former]

Trowa, I don't think anyone wants to be out driftin', no matter who's pickin' them up.

[brief pause]

...Okay, I can think of one time where maybe, but only if it's the Feds doin' the pickin'. And that's only for one or two folk.

[pacifisted]

[He was about to say something to contradict her, but her statement has piqued his curiosity. Trowa decides to hold that thought.]

...What's that one time?