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[After helping Ironhide, Jetfire had went to get his journal. He'd merely intended to ask a question... But since he'd attempted to challenge himself again when it came to the absolutely dreadful weather, the image that pops up is simply of Jetfire standing at one of the entrances to the barracks, staring out at the snow, for several minutes.]I...
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[Right. Sloooow realization. Because he's the one who unthawed you and all.]
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... Starscream?
[Right now, however, Jetfire seems kind of... lost, and while the view isn't exactly wide enough to show all of Jetfire, there's a shift behind him; the wings just changed from their normal, diagonally-upwards position to downswept.]
How cold can it get..?
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Humans tend to not survive very long in cold temperatures.
[Don't ask him how he knows that.]
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[Jetfire had been rubbing the side of his helm, staring - probably not actually registering what he was looking at - out at the falling snow when Starscream's reply actually... went in and the meaning registered.]
... It could, you know. But honestly, Starscream, why are you making that comparsion? I'm not even sure, exactly, how little cold they can take.
Except... humans are made mostly of water, water freezes at not particularly low temperatures... add to that the time it would take to reduce their core temperature with a lack of clothing... Humans are a lot less protected than we are. But even so, a constant low temperature and with no additional fuel for us would---
[Here, Jetfire stops, optics flickering slightly and while he does, partly, turn away from the view outside to frown down at the journal, there's a pinch about his faceplates; apparently not even Starscream being annoying like this going to easily jar him out of this mood.]
I hope you didn't just say that to make me consider all that.
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How long ago was that?
... Are you aware if it follows some... climate pattern? So there's some way of knowing... how long it might stay, if whatever climate that is emulated and simulated here would require a period of... winter?
[He's curious yes, but compared to what he could be curious about, that is, attempting to find out if there's a particular biome and climate being followed here, this is a more selfish curiosity. He want to attempt to be prepared.]
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I don't think it does. Except for the snow before, and now, and the dust storm the weather's always been the same.
*And the rain after the zombies, but Sollux figures that was more directly caused by the lord.*
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[Oh, he sounds a bit more focused with that confusion having disturbed his mental state some.]
So, either this could be... very brief, or last an unknown amount of time.
[Jetfire sounds... surprisingly solemn. Maybe even a bit distressed.]
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I... well. Thank you.
[He sighs, and while he might have meant to simply drag a hand down his faceplates, the hand sort of gets stuck partway, hiding part of his face instead.]
Well, at least I'm... better prepared.
[And while he does straighten up, "better prepared" is very far from what Jetfire looks like he is,]
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[There's a pause. How long had it been? His internal chronometer's still okay, mostly, anyway, but he can piece together a pretty long chunk of time. If that's the whole of it, however, he's not sure... and there's the noise of shifting metal as Jetfire shifts in his stance, one hand fisting slowly. They live for a long time, but being frozen for all that time... is still not insignificant.]
For... Mmmh... At least several hundred thousand years, as counted by Earth time.
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His tone of voice causes her to frown with worry, and when he's done she approaches and hesitantly touches his arm.]
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... Jael. [That single blanket and the lack of clothes are registered.] Shouldn't you be wearing... more? Or does your species operate under different parameters than the human one, and are capable of handling cold better?
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/It's been so long since I've been in a place that actually gets cold like this, so I'm a little unprepared. I'm heading out now to see if I can find something a little warmer./
[She waves a hand dismissively.]
/But never mind me. Are you alright? What's the matter?/
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[That she then shuffles back to his problems with all this has Jetfire shifting a bit, frown deepening.]
Before I came here... Starscream had only just unthawed me. I've been... frozen... for at least several hundred thousand years. [There's a slow release of air from his vents.]
I wasn't expecting the weather.
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Sometimes it is months. It is not always the same.
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... I see, thank you. This place doesn't have a regular weather pattern or climate, to judge trends and influences from?
[He... doesn't think so, but it couldn't hurt to ask.]
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I have not seen any more patterns for a long time.
[But then, she also stopped looking a long while ago.]
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[But still, the weather's implied to be extremely (too, really) fair up until now... Which no natural weather-pattern would be.]
Mmn... Months then, probably. [The idea unsettles him. He would like to claim he could overcome this easily and quickly, but he can't.] How fair is the weather otherwise?
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