[location: The Sanctuary, OPEN] Fred is poking around things she really probably shouldn't...

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It had been a few days since Fred arrived, and she'd gotten sort of used to being here. The fact that Cordy had claimed there wasn't any way for them to get home was not, however, sitting well with the brainy girl. She didn't like problems she couldn't solve...especially when they were science based. When she had been trapped in another dimension,

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[glowingseer]

Have a Cordelia bearing two cups of steaming coffee, freshly hatched from the hatch conveniently close to where Fred was.

"Here," she said, handing one to the other girl. "Thought you could use one."

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Fred didn't look up until Cordy spoke, intent on staring at the panel, but when she did she smiled brightly. "Oh, thanks!" She said, reaching out to take the cup in one hand, then setting down her tools and holding it between both her palms as she took a long sip. "I really could, this is harder than it looks you know." Was she joking? She'd mostly been sitting there thinking for the last few hours. But thinking could be hard!

She frowned at the panel as she took another sip of her coffee, her glasses sliding slightly down her nose as her head tipped forward. "I'm really not sure I'm accomplishin' much of anythin' here, Cordy..." She muttered.

[glowingseer]

Well, no surprise there - but far be it from Cordelia to ruin anyone's fun and actually stop Fred from doing her thing! Of course, there's disappointment, too - but hey, at least Fred tried.

"What were you trying to do?" she asked, sitting next to the girl and trying to peer at the laptop.

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"Just...just understand it." Fred said, turning away from the panel. "Figure out how it works. I can't make it do anything, I can't...figure out how to send us home...if I don't know how it does what it does. I'd like to know Why too but I doubt the poor computer knows any more than we do."

She took another sip of her coffee and shrugged.

[glowingseer]

"Yeah..." Cordelia muttered, staring down at her cup. "I'd like to know why, too. I mean, why us? Why them? And, you know - why throw us in this place? There's just too many questions and unfortunately, it seems like we're not getting any answers anytime soon."

She sighed. There's so many reasons to feel extremely sorry for themselves, but at least they're still alive and kicking! That's her, Ms. Let's-Look-At-The-Bright-Side gal nowadays. "So! How much do you hate Taxon so far?"

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"'Why' isn't really a question that most people tell their machines. They just expect them to do what they need to do because...well, they're machines. They don't care one way or the other." Fred shrugged. "I'd like to know too, though..."

Cordy's question actually puzzled Fred, and she didn't answer for a moment, taking another sip of her coffee. "I don't, I guess? I mean, I miss Angel and Charles and Wesley, but you're here, and the hotel is here, and...I mean...this is no Pylea. It's actually kinda nice here."

[glowingseer]

"Plus the hatches are pretty nifty with the spewing of things. Expensive, unaffordable things." She was smiling as she said this, but Cordelia could lie about her feelings as well as the next person.

"Aren't you bored?"

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"Bored? Oh no, not at all. Not yet, anyway." She waved one hand around vaguely. "I have to figure this place out, and then I have to take a look at those hatch things, and of course find some idea how they manage to bring entire buildings here..." She shook her head. "Oh no, not bored at all."

This really was a nerds dream, after all.