18 - Future history
Mar. 4th, 2012 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no_fastolfe[Necessarily generous friends filter: if you've had one non-hostile conversation with her, you're on it.]
I have graduated. [She still sounds kind of surprised about this, a little lost.]
In three days I will be leaving to visit some of my friends who have left the barge, and to return to my household on Aurora to implement what I have learned. In the meantime, I would like to see you again. Many of you have been important to me.
[It's stiff and formal, since she still doesn't know exactly how and what to say, how to convey how important her friends have been.]
I have graduated. [She still sounds kind of surprised about this, a little lost.]
In three days I will be leaving to visit some of my friends who have left the barge, and to return to my household on Aurora to implement what I have learned. In the meantime, I would like to see you again. Many of you have been important to me.
[It's stiff and formal, since she still doesn't know exactly how and what to say, how to convey how important her friends have been.]
Spams
Date: 2012-03-05 04:13 am (UTC)These are...Alpine pinks. I cultivate a little patch of them. They bloom very early in spring. The original flower was given me by a close friend, and so I give a portion of its descendants to you.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 04:16 am (UTC)This-- I had no idea it would be so soon. As much as I've wished to leave this place.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 04:21 am (UTC)Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 04:23 am (UTC)I ... there is the option to return to the barge. I must weigh my alternatives.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 06:05 am (UTC)Take your time making the decision. There is no reason to be hasty. Either way I'll...see you again.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 06:09 am (UTC)[She sighs] We both have our futures before us. I could have wished that we could be partners in research-- but neither of us can leave our timelines.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 06:18 am (UTC)Of course.
[His smile becomes a bit ironic.]
Well, never say never. We are both very long lived, after all.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 06:20 am (UTC)Were you a woman, count. Perhaps in more than research. I am sorry.
[An awkward dynamic, one poisonous to her for so long. Now only regrettable.]
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 07:33 pm (UTC)Well, that just figures.
Worry not about it. Your friendship satisfies me well enough.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 07:37 pm (UTC)Once I would have denied the word even applied to my feelings. But if a robot can find meaning in the word then I must admit some variant to myself.
[She shifts the pot of flowers into one arm to reach for his hand.]
Your friendship has been defining. I would have you in my circles only for that, but it seems even more selfish than ambitions of research.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 08:38 pm (UTC)Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 08:47 pm (UTC)Come, Count; you must tell me how to care for this plant. It will be on a strange planet, after all.
Spam
Date: 2012-03-05 09:13 pm (UTC)You saw nothing
Date: 2012-03-05 09:27 pm (UTC)You saw nothing
Date: 2012-03-06 04:03 am (UTC)