Comments | atlantis_tng: Day 52, morning; Jumper; Attn: Enid [F]

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Day 52, morning; Jumper; Attn: Enid [F]

Feb 04, 2009 14:03

Jack smiled as the jumper rose into the air, shooting straight up for a while before he leveled it off and started heading upward at a more oblique angle. Outside, the sky turned from the pink-laced blue of early morning to the white of the cloud layer. Soon, it would be dark blue, and then black and full of stars, and they would get their first ( Read more... )

character: enid patel, character: jack jackson, location: jumper, day 52, time: morning

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jahjackson February 4 2009, 20:51:41 UTC

"Yeah," Jack answered, smiling. "After all the worlds I've been on, well, the other me has been on, it's still more startling to find yourself in space." He sighed and pointed. "We've got islands south of us and I think I'm making out another continent to the south and east. Not sure. See that edge there?"

enid_patel February 4 2009, 21:01:33 UTC

"Indeed," said Enid, "and I am showing a subduction zone there as well."

Although it wasn't a field she had paid much attention to in years, Enid found it fascinating to have so much geological information available at her fingerprints. Using conventional Earth technology, it would have taken decades, and an untold number of grants, to gather the information revealed to her here.

"The southern islands appear to be following a hot spot," she added. "Like Hawaii, on Earth."

jahjackson February 4 2009, 21:06:43 UTC

"Volcanic then?" Jack asked. "I'm going to fly west to see what other landmasses there are and then we can a closer survey of what we find."

enid_patel February 4 2009, 21:20:36 UTC

Enid nodded almost absently, more focused on the mid-oceanic ridges now being mapped out before her than on Jackson's words. There was something very unusual going on with the one to the east, and south, but the jumper was flying west. Well, they would get to it eventually, she considered.

Suddenly, you think nothing of flying around the planet in less than an hour, Enid laughed at herself. How had this become her life?

You are flying through space in a ten thousand year spacecraft, piloted by an alien clone of an American Air Force General, and you are getting excited about mid-ocean ridges? But then, she mused, how could she not?

jahjackson February 4 2009, 21:25:58 UTC

Jack caught Enid's amusement as the passed into the nighttime region of the planet, the sun limning the edge in light before disappearing behind the disk.

"What's so funny?"