[2/010] [Thought bubbles]

[lolitatrap]

[Presea, like so many others, is inflicted with a bubble. Two clocks seem to dominate her thoughts, only briefly replaced by logs and axes, and a picture of a town, before returning again and again. Someone very bright, or paying attention, might notice the two clocks aren't keeping the same time: One is in the late evening, and the other in the

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[oliverplus]

What's wrong, Presea? [Oliver's thought bubble shows a clock with a question mark. is she worried about time passing?]

[lolitatrap]

It's showing-

[She pauses and shakes her head, the bubble turning briefly into axes and a captain's hat]

It doesn't matter.

[oliverplus]

What do you mean it doesn't matter? Whatever it is, it's worrying you, isn't it?

[lolitatrap]

...I don't like to discuss it.

[bit_impossible]

[he thinks these thought bubbles are an interesting phenomenon, but he's definitely more interested in those clocks he just saw, and his own thought bubbles mirror hers] Something on your mind?

[lolitatrap]

[Her attention is caught by the mirrored clocks, but it is only a match for her own...]

Nothing I need to discuss.

[bit_impossible]

No? They're just two clocks. Clocks don't do any harm at all, not as the physical representations of the passage of time in a certain area. Curious though...I can't help wondering about the second one.

This ship isn't the first time you've encountered a temporal anomaly, is it?

[lolitatrap]

[She barely even moves, the slightest reaction, but her own thoughts, and the accompanying bubble betray her; The red sphere, ever present on her neck.]

...Stop.

[saltsweet]

Eh? You mean the bubbles?

[lolitatrap]

Yes. Do you know?

[saltsweet]

[Pictured above: a thought bubble within a thought bubble... within a thought bubble, continued to infinity.]

Not really... I just woke up and it was there! But it seems to show what you're thinking about.

[lolitatrap]

[A confused question mark. How did that work...?]

It might be another trick.