05 || Video || Connections

[dark_surgeonx]

Sometimes, people will form an emotional connection to an item or a place.  This can happen for any number of reasons.  Perhaps the item is a reminder of a past tragedy...or a gift from a departed friend or loved one.  Perhaps being in a particular place reminds you of what took place there

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[young_idealist]

I've kept some tokens of a lover of mine.

[dark_surgeonx]

A present or former lover?

[young_idealist]

Former only the sense of a departed previous Barge resident. The love is still there, or I wouldn't hang onto these mementos.

[dark_surgeonx]

[He gives a nod.] I understand.

[paranoidcreator]

[Kevin's response is to hold up a microchip-on a necklace around his neck.]

[dark_surgeonx]

[That'll get a curious tilt of his head.]

Might I ask what the connection is to that?

[paranoidcreator]

First computer I ever built. [He smiles fondly] It...

The parts were a gift from my dad? He was never really into computers. However, he wasn't too busy to sit with me while I built it.

[dark_surgeonx]

Did he help you build it or did he mostly watch?

[timesbureaucrat]

Thanks to Braxiatel's terrible aim, I was snatched off my planet without warning and with nothing more than the clothes on my back. [He will never let go of that.] So away from the Barge, everything I used to possess is long gone now. Universes away. As is the place I hold dear.

There are a few gifts I've received on the Barge, however, that I'd be reluctant to part with. [But he doesn't say what they are or who gave the gifts.]

[dark_surgeonx]

I suppose it's good that you've been able to make such connections after being uprooted in such a way.

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[lifeafterhope]

Holds a special place in my heart?

My home. My country... but there's nothing here to remind me of it besides what little came with me. Everything else is different here.

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[dark_surgeonx]

If you could have something from that place with you now, what would it be?

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[lifeafterhope]

I wouldn't wish this place on anyone I know... so something of the land itself. There isn't a single flower in the gardens that I recognize and all the food has been strange, too, even if there are more of either than we ever had at home.

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[dark_surgeonx]

Sounds like it was a difficult life.

Have you made any requests for either? I know the kitchen is pretty willing to try new dishes if you tell them how it's made. I'm not quite so familiar with how the gardens are managed.

[iam_aghost]

A good many things. But my music and my poetry books. Well... the poetry.

[dark_surgeonx]

Is there a certain poem or the collection as a whole?

[iam_aghost]

Every poem reminds me of something, or somebody, different.

[dark_surgeonx]

Impressive. I admit I was never very well versed in poetry, but I can enjoy reading them sometimes.