009 :: voice

[prosopopoeia]

DELACROIX to VOID: 11-04-???? re: Loose Lips

I do not wish to 'ear another word about my late nights in zhe laboratory with my coworkers.

I 'ave never and will never 'ave such involvements in my professional environment.

As such, kindly refrain from your childish speculations. I am quite through with hearing of it.

Whatever curses you are currently suffering ees no excuse.

Comments

[candothat]

What has been said about you, Delacroix?

[prosopopoeia]

[She puts a hand over her eyes for a moment.]

Nothing which bears repeating.

[Something about Sephiroth and big swords.]

[candothat]

Ah.

If I am told anything, I will be sure not to listen.

[prosopopoeia]

I think zhat would be for zhe best.

[It might make his curls blush or something.]

[candothat]

[Oh, he has heard things. Delacroix might be surprised.]

How are your projects?

[prosopopoeia]

[Sob. No, Chekov, no!]

Zhey are progressing. Never as quickly as I would like, but 'avng official access to zhe City Solution resources ees a boon.

[candothat]

[You spend a few days with Captain Kirk and see if you don't hear some things that ought not be heard.]

Nothing is ever finished soon enough. I work at City Solutions, also; if you would like help, I am interested in your line of research.

[prosopopoeia]

It 'as been useful, zhat zhe interdepartmental rapport ees a good one.

[candothat]

It has been. It is clever, how it is run, with all departments in contact with each other. An innovation in one area may benefit the work of others in another.

[prosopopoeia]

Zhis is 'ow a laboratory should be run, zhough eet is rare. Scientists are know for zheir egos.

[She has one, a mighty one. It just happened to manifest in other ways.]

[candothat]

Are they? I have not known many scientists, but they were not egotistic. [beat] Less, I think, egotistic than I am.

[Maybe it's a future thing.]

[prosopopoeia]

[She runs a hand back through her hair with a sigh.]

My superior on zhe Von Braun was so eager to be zhe first, and zhe greatest, zhat he was zhe first to fall when zhe annelids spoke.

[candothat]

I am sorry. ...The annelids?

[prosopopoeia]

Eet is fine, I believe zhey are... unique to my world, just as zheir mother was. Zhey were created by a computer, a rogue AI who 'as many dead bodies to her name.

[It's always on Delacroix's mind, wondering if her ship was saved, if SHODAN was stopped. If this city is merely part of the virtual world she had created. The latter is... frightening, but unlikely. SHODAN was not merciful enough to merely distract her enemies. She wanted them dead.]

Hivemind creatures of a biomass, psionic and capable of telepathic control. Zhey are born in a larval form, which can either take over a human host, or can be bred to a specific task.

[candothat]

They sound terrifying, annelids--like the eels of Ceti Alpha, but more formidable than them, maybe, without a host.

I am sorry that your home world is as it is.

[prosopopoeia]

I am only sorry I could not stop zhem.

[That all of her friends and coworkers are dead. That she is as well.]