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[prosopopoeia]

DELACROIX to CITIZENS: 05-01-???? re: the CLOCK

Do not be so complacent and easily distracted. We are at a tenuous juncture. New methods must be put into place or this city is at an end.

I do not yet know how thoroughly entwined that clock is with this environment, but it is failing.

Comments

[prosopopoeia]

Dr. Marie Delacroix.

[extend]

[ . . . a very measured pause. ]

Lavi. Do I get to ask if doctor's a title or the name of the job?

[prosopopoeia]

Doctorate. I am an engineer.

[extend]

[ . . . and another pause! just.

for a different reason. ]

Not... the kind that builds robots, though.

Yeah?

[prosopopoeia]

I have built far more than just robots.

[extend]

Going to have to define "more" for me!

[prosopopoeia]

An interstellar vessel.

[extend]

Starships and that kind of thing?

[prosopopoeia]

Precisely that kind of thing.

[extend]

Yeah? Ever been traveling before this, doctor?

[prosopopoeia]

Not inter-dimensionally, no.

[extend]

Y'know, I'm far back enough that I can't tell if that's counting between stars or not.

[prosopopoeia]

What are the details of your universe?

[extend]

Haha. Remember anything about the nineteenth-century?

[prosopopoeia]

Not personally, but I have studied history.