FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org If you want to keep calling me young, I won't stop you. But such cheek! Kids these days.
[She's having a good laugh at their back-and-forth though and hesitates slightly at the question. On one hand she could easily play it off, but she'd told him before to talk to her about anything. That he could open up to her. And how could she ask him to do such a thing when she wasn't willing to do it back?]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org I have a genetic disease. Sort of. It's a bit difficult to explain, but I guess you could say I'm sick and won't get better. Remember I said my father was overprotective and I almost never went outside?
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org That's why. There's about a 50/50 chance of passing it along or not, but I'd rather not take the risk.
[A disease, she's said. But Simon's read her file, and there are broad enough outlines for him to make a guess that she means the powers that were hidden.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org You did say that. But maybe it's something they fixed, or could fix. I had a scar vanish when we all came in.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org Maybe! It'd be interesting to look into, anyhow. But it's a little frightening? Maybe that's not the right word.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org But when you build up your life around accommodating something, suddenly have it all change is a little daunting. I don't know what I'd do with myself.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org I imagine eventually you go so far on one path you have no choice but to keep going. But that's neither here nor there.
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org But then, sometimes that's the aim. It's not always good, to have too many alternatives. It can be freeing to have them all taken away.
[As the late, great Orwell wrote. Simon's starting to credit it. And it's the opposite of what he sometimes tells Pilot, but then he's more honest with Winnie. But not completely honest.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org Still. Even if children aren't on the table, you _could_ get married. Or be adventurous and modern. Live a little.
[That's one way to look at it, she supposes. Maybe he'd understand what she's really doing then.]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org I consider myself modern but I don't know if I'm THAT modern. Is it typical in the future to 'go out' with multiple people before settling? Or never settling at all?
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org Sounds scandalous. Poor Agnes's head would turn.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org But thank you. Hopefully after we're done with this planet we'll all have some down time to enjoy life a little. Maybe we'll go on vacation.
[A tropical planet with cute servers with fruity umbrella'd drinks. Winnie can dream, okay.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org A holiday, really? Do you know, I haven't had a real holiday since I was [He thinks about this carefully, before finishing up....] in school.
[He's tended to consider his time out as opportunities to catch up with reading and sleep, and when they're done with Ajna.... well, he thinks most people will have more on their minds than sunbathing.
Or maybe not. Maybe they will all get packed off to some tropical beach planet.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org As to your question, I would say yes. Yes, it's very typical. Scandalous would be the least of it. But it has a lot to commend it.
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org They've been to Earth. I think it was Ghost who told me. They went to London. So I suppose they could do it. Maybe one none of us came from, so we wouldn't misbehave.
[Except if he ever found himself back in the city, he thinks he'd sit down on the nearest bench and cry himself out.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org The other thing - I'm sorry, Winnie, I really don't want to talk about it.
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org It's no trouble at all. You weren't to know.
[He's spent days and weeks and months, depending on your timescale, trying to inure himself to the smell of blood. He wants to find her and take her hands and put his head on her shoulder and just let go. He won't.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org We could do politics. I think it would end up with both of us terribly offended and sulking on opposite sides of the camp.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org Somehow I'm not so sure about that.
[She has a feeling her and Simon might see eye-to-eye on quite a few things.]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org Oh, I'm sure you know, but I won't be able to talk much the next couple of days. So if you message me and I don't respond it's not that I'm offended you won't talk politics or love with me.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org Cheeky. AND a flatterer. Everything will be fine! This is me we're talking about , after all. I can't possibly die yet, there's too much to do!
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If you want to keep calling me young, I won't stop you. But such cheek! Kids these days.
[She's having a good laugh at their back-and-forth though and hesitates slightly at the question. On one hand she could easily play it off, but she'd told him before to talk to her about anything. That he could open up to her. And how could she ask him to do such a thing when she wasn't willing to do it back?]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
I have a genetic disease. Sort of. It's a bit difficult to explain, but I guess you could say I'm sick and won't get better. Remember I said my father was overprotective and I almost never went outside?
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
That's why. There's about a 50/50 chance of passing it along or not, but I'd rather not take the risk.
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FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
You did say that. But maybe it's something they fixed, or could fix. I had a scar vanish when we all came in.
[Dastardly power-nomming CDC.]
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Maybe! It'd be interesting to look into, anyhow. But it's a little frightening? Maybe that's not the right word.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
But when you build up your life around accommodating something, suddenly have it all change is a little daunting. I don't know what I'd do with myself.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
I imagine eventually you go so far on one path you have no choice but to keep going. But that's neither here nor there.
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But then, sometimes that's the aim. It's not always good, to have too many alternatives. It can be freeing to have them all taken away.
[As the late, great Orwell wrote. Simon's starting to credit it. And it's the opposite of what he sometimes tells Pilot, but then he's more honest with Winnie. But not completely honest.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
Still. Even if children aren't on the table, you _could_ get married. Or be adventurous and modern. Live a little.
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FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
I consider myself modern but I don't know if I'm THAT modern. Is it typical in the future to 'go out' with multiple people before settling? Or never settling at all?
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Sounds scandalous. Poor Agnes's head would turn.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
But thank you. Hopefully after we're done with this planet we'll all have some down time to enjoy life a little. Maybe we'll go on vacation.
[A tropical planet with cute servers with fruity umbrella'd drinks. Winnie can dream, okay.]
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A holiday, really? Do you know, I haven't had a real holiday since I was [He thinks about this carefully, before finishing up....] in school.
[He's tended to consider his time out as opportunities to catch up with reading and sleep, and when they're done with Ajna.... well, he thinks most people will have more on their minds than sunbathing.
Or maybe not. Maybe they will all get packed off to some tropical beach planet.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
As to your question, I would say yes. Yes, it's very typical. Scandalous would be the least of it. But it has a lot to commend it.
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I'd like to see Paris again. Do you think the Instructors would take requests?
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Have you courted/dated many people? Do you have an eye on anyone?
[If they're going to talk about love lives she's going to make sure to ask about his too.]
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They've been to Earth. I think it was Ghost who told me. They went to London. So I suppose they could do it. Maybe one none of us came from, so we wouldn't misbehave.
[Except if he ever found himself back in the city, he thinks he'd sit down on the nearest bench and cry himself out.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
The other thing - I'm sorry, Winnie, I really don't want to talk about it.
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I suppose we'd have to prove we could behave ourselves first.
FROM:prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Alright. I'm sorry I brought it up.
[She wonders if he lost someone and her heart aches for him regardless.]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Well, we've talked loved. Is this where we switch to politics and world affairs?
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It's no trouble at all. You weren't to know.
[He's spent days and weeks and months, depending on your timescale, trying to inure himself to the smell of blood. He wants to find her and take her hands and put his head on her shoulder and just let go. He won't.]
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
We could do politics. I think it would end up with both of us terribly offended and sulking on opposite sides of the camp.
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Somehow I'm not so sure about that.
[She has a feeling her and Simon might see eye-to-eye on quite a few things.]
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Oh, I'm sure you know, but I won't be able to talk much the next couple of days. So if you message me and I don't respond it's not that I'm offended you won't talk politics or love with me.
FROM: prismall.winnifred@cdc.org
Mostly. :P
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If I've offended you, I can only offer my sincerest regrets. :-)
:-P? I think I like :-p better. It's friendlier.
FROM: wilson.simon@cdc.org
I probably shouldn't know too much about what you're all up to. But days, really? I shall count them until you return.
[In short, Winnie: please don't be gone like Babydoll is gone.]
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Cheeky. AND a flatterer. Everything will be fine! This is me we're talking about , after all. I can't possibly die yet, there's too much to do!
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Yes, do you know what happens to people who think they're immortal? They get killed.
Promise me you'll be careful.
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What's the worst that could happen? You worry too much!
But I promise, I'll be careful!
[Famous last words and all.]
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I'll hold you to that.
I'm going to try and sleep, I think. You get an early night too. You'll need it.
[He gets up early, and he can be a bit of a mother hen. Sry Winnie.]