Day in the life!

[likedarkmatter]

Who: Alice Morgan and EVERYONE
What: A day in the life.
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: Around today/Thursday/Friday
Warnings/Notes: Possible references to suicide/self-harm

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6pm - Deck

[likedarkmatter]

[Alice is standing with her hands on the railing, apparently lost in thought, although in actuality she's very closely watching the passage of distant worlds and stars. After spending her formative years studying the universe and mankind's understanding thereof, it's both awe-inspiring and chilling to witness something so alien.]

[strangehstorian]

[OUT OF NOWHERE:]

It's lovely, isn't it?

[likedarkmatter]

Yes. [It's not a calculated response, but saying the first thing that comes into her head is a shade better than sounding alarmed by the appearance of an extremely short person out of nowhere. Alice turns a little to look at her briefly, in acknowledgement, then back to the void.]

It's beautiful.

[This is probably the most sincere remark anyone's going to get out of her for a while.]

[strangehstorian]

This place is really a miracle in principle, if not in practice.

[She walks up to the rail to peer through it like a child and wraps a small hand around the lowest rung.]

We're seeing worlds that we'd have no idea existed otherwise. The vastness of the whole multiverse.

[likedarkmatter]

I didn't like the idea of multiple worlds when I first came across it. Not that the alternatives didn't have their own drawbacks, but it seemed very...untidy, to me. Eventually I warmed to it, I...suppose I liked the idea that every possibility exists. Even if we never see it.

[She smiles and drums her fingers on the railing.] And now I'm seeing it. It's a privilege.

[strangehstorian]

Perhaps not every possibility, but many of them. The worlds here are extremely diverse. It comes with its drawbacks but out of the infinite numbers of people that have and will existed, we're one of a few thousand that get to glimpse outside of the worlds that the rest will be born on and die on without ever being aware that there's something outside.

[She smiles distantly up at Alice.]

[likedarkmatter]

[Alice returns the smile faintly, then turns back to the stars.] 'Drawbacks'. You mean the floods?

[strangehstorian]

Yes. And well.. the danger that the inhabitants themselves can pose.

[likedarkmatter]

Yes. From what I've observed, the Wardens can be just as dangerous as the Inmates.

[Having done only a cursory archive read so far, and limited only to what's available on the Inmates' filters, it's a blanket statement - but still seems indicative of recent events.]

[strangehstorian]

Unfortunately, yes. Via negligence or ...more directly.

[likedarkmatter]

Sounds like cabin fever. [Neutrally:] Is that a recent development, or has it always been the case?

[strangehstorian]

Well, I've only arrived recently, compared to most. But mortals will be mortals wherever you go - good ones will always have flaws and bad ones will surprise you with their character sometimes.

[likedarkmatter]

['Mortals' wasn't a word she was strictly expecting, but Alice takes it in stride. She chuckles.] And we're so easily divided into those two categories?

[strangehstorian]

It seems like it's done for you here. [She laughs uncertainly] Although there are more than a few examples I'd have sorted differently myself.

[likedarkmatter]

[She smiles.] Well, that's the rub, isn't it? All sorts of people from all sorts of worlds with all their conflicting moral codes, expected to get along together like equals.

[strangehstorian]

And all used to no accountability, too. Hmm. Are you a warden yourself?