"Maybe," she agrees. "Unlike them, we have the tools and information to possibly hold out a little longer."
However long that may be. It's hard to gauge how long the Tranquility had been in travel before she had arrived on the first jump. If there's even a way to gauge time at all, considering how long they've actually been traveling in this thing.
"That's assuming it's capable of boredom. Though it may explain why we've been fucked with all these years." Even though it wants to keep them and it knows, their time spent in the White Room and their encounter with the shadow hasn't left them a memorable impression about what it is and what it wants with them. That she can remember, anyway.
Maddening, really. To have experienced lifetimes of having her head messed with, of memories being written and replaced, only to be placed into another's toolbox. It makes her gut wrench with disgust. Her time spent with Neson had been a short one, but she knew that "giving it more" wasn't the route she wanted to take when she stupidly chose not to kill the poor bastard.
After a few seconds, she swallows what feels like a jagged rock in her throat. "My biggest concern right now is being compelled by it again. If next time it tries to do something like that, it'll be someone I know."
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However long that may be. It's hard to gauge how long the Tranquility had been in travel before she had arrived on the first jump. If there's even a way to gauge time at all, considering how long they've actually been traveling in this thing.
"That's assuming it's capable of boredom. Though it may explain why we've been fucked with all these years." Even though it wants to keep them and it knows, their time spent in the White Room and their encounter with the shadow hasn't left them a memorable impression about what it is and what it wants with them. That she can remember, anyway.
Maddening, really. To have experienced lifetimes of having her head messed with, of memories being written and replaced, only to be placed into another's toolbox. It makes her gut wrench with disgust. Her time spent with Neson had been a short one, but she knew that "giving it more" wasn't the route she wanted to take when she stupidly chose not to kill the poor bastard.
After a few seconds, she swallows what feels like a jagged rock in her throat. "My biggest concern right now is being compelled by it again. If next time it tries to do something like that, it'll be someone I know."