When will you realize that the Admiral cannot give you what you want? If you cannot get what you want on your own, then it is not worth having.

Gaheris...remember that.

[Filtered to Barge Pride, minus Jim]I have spent many months aboard this Barge, hoping to be given a way out ( Read more... )

[Tyr's just chilling out at his desk, flipping through some papers. For once, he's quite relaxed and in a fantastic mood.]

Extraordinary what one might learn while that age. I had forgotten how young humans can be. [He grins, as he's actually not meaning to be too derogatory this time.]

[Private to Profit]

[Oh, he's definitely gloating. He has ( Read more... )

You humans have grown so attached to your Earth. What is it about that patch of dirt and smoke that you cherish so much?

[He scoffs gently.] You can't even defend it properly. You realize that. If not for the Nietzscheans and the Magog, someone else would have come after you. [He laughs a bit, but it's really without humor.]

It's inevitable.

[ ( Read more... )

[Private to the Admiral]

I'd like a television, boxed by Jim's company, to be delivered to his room in exactly one hour.

[Private to Jim]

You will have your television soon, but I said that I would be there when it was delivered. You have one hour to be in your room. I will be there when that hour is up.

[Arthur + Eames Filter]How are the ( Read more... )

[Warden Filter, minus Eddie]

Blood and potential murders. Really. One would think that you would be more observant of these things. [Oh Tyr. So caring.]

I need a way to get information that might have been forgotten or hidden. A way that doesn't involve any...supernatural... tampering with the mind.

[Private to Jim]

I'm going to tell you a story. ( Read more... )

I’ve seen the ways you people handle your inmates. Coddling them. Giving them treats when they get their feelings hurt and having them talk through the turmoil they experienced. It’s disgusting. You’re doing them a disservice by treating every conflict they have as a negative experience.

Conflict. It makes a person stronger. Makes them better. Every ( Read more... )

[His voice is a little muffled, since he's not actually holding the communicator. It's in an inside pocket of his vest. There's a faint clinking the background, like chainmail.]

Day two. Finally, something worthwhile happens. [There's a bit of a laugh here.]

Jim, I hope that you're making yourself useful. You do still have a lighter on you, do you ( Read more... )

[He's muttering to himself, almost as if he doesn't know the communicator is on. He does...he's just disgusted. Also, pretend he spent the flood locked in his room...being something totally embarrassing that he'll never tell anyone.]

Children.

This barge is full of children.

[Stronger voice now.]
The weeks have grown into a month now. I'm beginning to ( Read more... )

Human history tells the same tale over and over again. You people have always been so good at killing each other that it's a wonder your species still barely survives. Your inferior genes only produce the means of killing each other for the worst reasons. Not to gain the strongest genes, not for anything other than to perpetuate their own self ( Read more... )

After all the warnings given about floods, that was the one that was handed to us? Forcing everyone to speak...niceties in the face of those they wished to curse? What have you people been complaining about?

This teaches you nothing.