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outer_divide2012-05-13 08:41 am
abetterway) wrote in outer_divide2012-05-13 08:41 am
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[Xavier is sitting on a cot in the Flop, hands clasped in her lap as she smiles into the camera. It's a weary smile, but a friendly one. Her hair is tied back in a low, messy knot.]
Hello. My name is Jocelyn Xavier, and I have a request of everyone.
I'd like to know some details about your home, your history. Nothing intimate, of course – just basic facts that might help us discern some sort of pattern in our abduction. Your statistics, essentially – and your skills, if you don't mind sharing.
I'll start us off.
I come from Earth. America, originally, but I've been traveling for several years. The current year is – was – 1956. I recently turned thirty years old. [Her expression tightens, just slightly, as her voice quiets.] Both of my parents are deceased. My step-brother and his father, as well.
[Her next words come quickly, as she forces old emotions away.] I spent eight years at Oxford University, in England. I have PhDs in genetics, biophysics, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology.
[She hesitates, then, brow furrowing she glances downward; she seems to steel herself as she looks back into the camera.]
I was a soldier for three years. [It would be dangerous to admit, at home, and might raise suspicions here. But she's asking for honesty, and she's holding enough back already.]
Hello. My name is Jocelyn Xavier, and I have a request of everyone.
I'd like to know some details about your home, your history. Nothing intimate, of course – just basic facts that might help us discern some sort of pattern in our abduction. Your statistics, essentially – and your skills, if you don't mind sharing.
I'll start us off.
I come from Earth. America, originally, but I've been traveling for several years. The current year is – was – 1956. I recently turned thirty years old. [Her expression tightens, just slightly, as her voice quiets.] Both of my parents are deceased. My step-brother and his father, as well.
[Her next words come quickly, as she forces old emotions away.] I spent eight years at Oxford University, in England. I have PhDs in genetics, biophysics, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology.
[She hesitates, then, brow furrowing she glances downward; she seems to steel herself as she looks back into the camera.]
I was a soldier for three years. [It would be dangerous to admit, at home, and might raise suspicions here. But she's asking for honesty, and she's holding enough back already.]
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Among the people who've woken up so far, there's a great deal of variance in background, time period, planet of origin. We don't even share a common biology.
Besides, the sample's too small. There's thousands of pods, and only a handful of us are awake. Even if there were a pattern, we couldn't accurately extract it from the current data.
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It's possible that patterns appear in different subsets. ...I wonder if different people may have been assigned to different worlds, or times.
[with a wry smile] It's always difficult when you've no idea who or what may have set the parameters.
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[Giving you a Pointed Look, by the way. He knows you're hiding something.]
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We can't stay strangers indefinitely, however, not if we want to survive here.