First Test ✖ Voice

[waspromisedcake]

[There's the sound of a thunderstorm overhead and rain plopping down on the ground. For someone who hasn't been out in the rain for many years, this is a Big Deal.]

Is it safe to be outside?

Comments

[femshep]

It's safe. [Alert the media, it sounds like Shepard's grinning. This is the first time she's ever seen the rain...]

[waspromisedcake]

[By now, she's ventured out in it.]

It's nice.

[femshep]

Agreed.

[waspromisedcake]

If it rains harder, it won't be safe anymore, will it?

[femshep]

It'll be fine.

[waspromisedcake]

I--

[She hesitates, then squares her shoulders and speaks.]

I don't remember the last time I was out in rain. So I wanted to be sure.

[femshep]

This is my first.

[So Chell's not alone on that one.]

[waspromisedcake]

Really? Did you grow up in an underground facility too?

[Though maybe "grow up" wasn't the right term when you've spent most of it in stasis.]

[femshep]

Not quite. I was born off-world.

[waspromisedcake]

But you're human?

[femshep]

By the time I was born, humans had been colonizing Mindoir for three generations.

[waspromisedcake]

Oh.

I think you're from the future.

[femshep]

I'm definitely from the future.

[waspromisedcake]

Do people still live on Earth though?

[femshep]

Plenty. Eleven billion and counting.

[waspromisedcake]

But you've never been there?

[femshep]

Not once.

[waspromisedcake]

I don't remember much about it, on the outside.

[femshep]

I guess we've got something in common, then.

[waspromisedcake]

Guess so.