059 - Written

[hopeless_hacker]

Does anyone have any book or film recommendations? Something escapist rather than taxing. [Yeah, she's not specifying 'sci-fi or fantasy' because that's reality for some people.] I feel like I've been staring at numbers for days on end, I could use something to distance myself from it all for a few hours.

[Private to Martha]

Harper and I completed

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[ifightfor]

Previous decacycle week spent in|

[Pause. pause. pause. How does he put this...]

reconciliation attempt with other instantiation of JA307020.

Private, text.

[hopeless_hacker]

[oh god why does all the important stuff happen when she just wants to curl up in a corner forever.]

You've been....communicating with Tron?

Private, text.

[ifightfor]

Communication attempt largely unsuccessful.

[mostly he tried that meditation thing Tron did that somehow blocked him from taking control back. and felt really stupid doing it.]

Private, text.

[hopeless_hacker]

Can you explain the process of this? What exactly did you try to do - what went wrong?

[Private.]

[thegooddrjones]

Oh Tosh, I'm so sorry.

[Private.]

[hopeless_hacker]

He told me he was thinking about leaving a while ago. If nothing else, it didn't come out of the blue.

[Private.]

[thegooddrjones]

It's still awful that he's gone.

Is there anything I can do? Other than help install the port, I mean.

[Private.]

[hopeless_hacker]

No, it...it's fine.

[Long pause. She doesn't usually do outbursts, but this is pretty much as awful as she's felt since she's been here. She switches onto voice, and she sounds...pretty terrible, her throat raw like she's been crying for a while.]

Martha, he said he loved me. He said he loved me, and then he left. Why would he -- I completely understand why he's gone and I wouldn't want him to stay just for me when he doesn't think he can do the job, but...

[Private]

[inhistorybooks]

I think we can handle it. We can always get someone else to help out if we need it later, right?

You doing okay? [He knows you were engine room bros, but that's it. :c]

[Private]

[hopeless_hacker]

[Lol she's kind of assumed he knows the rest as well.]

Absolutely. I'm fine. Hardly the first time I've been dumped.

[Private]

[inhistorybooks]

... Oh. Well, uh, did he say anything before he left?

[Private]

[hopeless_hacker]

Nothing worth repeating.

[most_feared]

I have some extraterrestrial myth translations.

[hopeless_hacker]

That sounds interesting. Could I borrow them?

...do you have the original texts?

[most_feared]

Yeah, you can. And I have some of them if you want to take a stab at those. There's usually a little lost in translation, anyway.

[hopeless_hacker]

[Alien linguistics: Tosh's idea of recreation.]

Thank you, Kay.

[neuroticalson]

Cannibal Holocaust. Great movie.

[hopeless_hacker]

...

Thank you.

[neuroticalson]

No problem.