002 // video, okay there's not actually a filter // i've been thinking too much lately

[dovehearted]

[hey Barge it's Lua. The angle's a lot better this time, and there is just a little more purpose to her than there was the first time you met her, and certainly a lot more than what you saw when the other ship passed by.]

...so I've been thinking.

What would you need to be happy here?

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Private/video:

[fanged_aleera]

I owe you an apology for my... Behaviour.

[dovehearted]

[she just looks back like "what is there to even apologize for", trying to hide the confusion behind receptivity.]

Private/video:

[fanged_aleera]

I came here as... 'Inmate'. As what you are now. I inflicted great pain and suffering upon others. My lesson... It was not to find regret in these things, but to move beyond them. To understand I had placed myself in a cage of my own making. That I was enslaved by petty things.

This change, this... Flood... This evoked within me great memories and feelings of what it once was to glory in this way of being. When it had ended, I still was caught in much excitement, in rapture, for how it was to be this way.

Wickedness and sin flow through me. This is my nature. But it was not for me to forget my role of teacher for you. My thoughts on this time... They should not have been announced in the way they had.

The one who taught me when I was as you are now; she gave me words of wisdom on this matter. This is why I apologise to you now.

[dovehearted]

[well that's the last thing she expected, especially in those words.] It's nothing. Not if remembering it made you happy.

[flashy_magic]

An appletini, a full magic show with tigers, and fans. Oh, and Bob would be nice, too. He's always fun to have around.

[gotgirlballs]

An appletini? Seriously?

I have a former mentor you'd really get along with.

[flashy_magic]

Yeah? Who?

[gotgirlballs]

J.D. He's all about the appletinis.

[t_x_unit]

Emotions.

These would be inefficient.

[dovehearted]

[wait what]

You don't care?

[t_x_unit]

No. Emotions would be detrimental to my functionality.

[dovehearted]

[Lua is an eighth-grade dropout and has no idea she's talking to a robot, so she can't entirely hide that she is lost here.] ...so what's it like?

[cannibalmind]

I would very much like access to the art room's supplies.

[dovehearted]

[just a look back like "but why would they ban you"]

[cannibalmind]

The equipment cabinets are locked and I cannot seem to get the better of them. I'd be content with butcher paper and a few charcoal sticks.

[dovehearted]

...maybe ask? 's a shame they lock it up.

[lifeafterhope]

A way to leave that didn't involve so much waiting.

[dovehearted]

[omg they're wish twins, but Lua's not going to say anything yet, and she's on her best behavior in public entries anyway.]

It's been a long time?

[lifeafterhope]

Any time at all is too long to be caught in a trap with no real prospect of escape.

[dovehearted]

You don't think you'll be let out.