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[autodidacticrobogirl]

I told you so. It's all you people ever do.

Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.

[The video flicks on. It wobbles a bit, then steadies, showing a lovely view of the Elegante version of the moon.]

Know what today is? It's Moon-landing day. On July 20, 1969, the first human being to reach a place outside our planet first stepped out onto the surface of the Moon.

Big day. We should try living up to it sometime.

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[Audio]

[messyturk.livejournal.com]

Who the hell'd want to go to the moon? Isn't it just a giant rock in space that doesn't do anything but reflect light and even then is pretty lazy about it?

Bottom of the ocean at least has things that're alive.

[Audio]

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

And that's why people from your world will always be trapped in the cradle that birthed them.

[She's sincerely unimpressed, Reno. Can you tell?]

Infants.

[Audio]

[messyturk.livejournal.com]

Uhm yeah, at least we can bring back the dead so long as they haven't been returned to the lifestream.

[Can you tell he's not impressed either? They're busy improving medical science, not bouncing around on space rocks.]

Can you go to the store and buy something to bring someone back from death?

[And no, he's not caring that he's being insensitive.]

[Audio]

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

Shut.

[Kim's angry. Really, honestly angry at you, Reno. Today Kim lost a friend, and your bullshit about death is not helping.]

Up.

[Audio]

[messyturk.livejournal.com]

[OW okay, maybe he does care. A little. He's leared a little lesson about being nasty to people.]

...the ship'll bring 'em back.

everything comes back, even back home. [there's a sigh. jeez, explaining the lifestream is hard.]

Nobody really truly dies, at least that's not what we believe. They just go join the planet and their loved ones, they watch over us and when we need them.

They come back. They remember us, sure they may come back as our son or a stranger but they know us. I'd know Rude the moment he was born again, and he'd know me. A body is just a body, everything else never really dies.

[a pause]

Jeeze, maybe I should'a been a preacher.

[Audio]

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

He's not dead you subsentient primate, he's gone.

That's all people are really good for. Dying, and leaving. Maybe things work that way where you're from, but here, they don't. I've been watching and learning, I've been reading. From the very start, and I've already learned more than you, who preceded me.

Don't lecture me on your religious dogma, peasant. I won't be lied to.

[click]

[pointless shouting]

[messyturk.livejournal.com]

Sorry if i was a little to fucking busy with near fucking death experiences and dying.

[See if he ever tries to help anyone ever again. B|]