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It was certainly not a medical coma in any way. It was like sleep-- a long, untroubled sleep, with elements of physiological stasis to prevent muscular decay and other unwanted bodily functions.

I nearly wish I hadn't woken up. This ship looks like a dead world and the archives are full of fear and missing people. I can be no help, could have been no help. I would rather have gone on sleeping.

[Private to Sherlock after some backreading]
I am not redeemed and continue to have no idea-- or urgency to find out-- what the terms of my redemption are.

[Filtered to inmate-buddies-- Rinzler, Rhade, Dracula, Rassilon, Rex]
You are well, then?

[Infirmary filter and Sherlock]
I am going to need the services of a mentologist. I would like to discuss options for medications. It became extremely apparent during the involuntary honesty flood that my mental state is not what it was at home, and that I have had little success controlling my reactions to stress.

[Here's where pride intersects awkwardly with some kind of vestigial empathy] However I am hardly in dire need, the situation is still largely under my control: I realize that the infirmary is short staffed and there was a concern of injury resultant from the barge phenomena.

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[She inhales through her nose, and there's a burst of temper at the tip of her tongue-- not being patronized to, or being compared to an Earther, or needing validation from one certainly.

It only manifests as a tightening of her jaw. Oh, she got viciously angry at Baley, but never like she's been on the barge, never yelling and arguing on shaky logic just out of the terror of losing. Now she argues with herself, instead and sits on the reaction.]

It is considered somewhat poor taste, on Aurora, to comment on other's sexual preferences. [Not that it ever stopped her.] Beyond the innate assumption that one has said preferences. I am not familiar with the terminology. What, as applied to human sexuality, does 'asexual' mean in your experience?

Yes, well, social niceties do like to get in the way of plain speaking.

In general terms, a lack of interest, or lack of enjoyment in the act of sexual intercourse.

[She's distracted now, lips pursed. Information is good. Personal... Minutiae is bad.]

Differentiated from sexual dysfunction or hormonal imbalance, how?

It's not a dysfuntion, it is, in effect, a sexual preference. There's nothing wrong with it, it's simply how it is. As John would say, it's all all right. We don't have to restrict ourselves to a simple binary system of yes now, male, female and so on, humanity is more complex than that... and more interesting, I should think.

Of course very little that is organic can ever truly be a binary...

[Is it just her, or is this quickly distinguishing itself as Most Awkward Thing to Talk With Warden About?]

You said you had literature?

Yes. If you wish we can meet in the library, I'm sure the collection there will be more extensive than mine.

[Not just her.]

You have some knowledge of the attendant writings, you'll know which authors to trust and which to reject? So much social-science is contradictory and sensational.

I quite agree. And yes, I can recommend certain texts. Since I'm on the same floor, knock at my door when you reach level [5?]

I'm on my way.

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[Assume's good, I don't think they have much more to cover at the moment.]

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