high-energy physics

[warpfairy]

Federation political prisons are not particularly uncomfortable. She's not going anywhere, but she can read, she's considering taking up an instrument, the only really awkward thing is that she doesn't particularly want to be supervised while she's sweating her way through her next pon farr one way or another but that's years off. That and she wishes she'd taken longer to get caught. But she was running out of the really low-hanging fruit anyway.

This is what she signed up for. She makes up imaginary profiles of people on the planets she got to, people who can live longer fuller lives with the stars in reach, one per day. One per day and she'll have loads of estimated impact left unused when she dies. Perfectly reasonable tradeoff and she can still read books.

Someone wants to interview her about Vulcan; they don't want to lose anything that anybody remembers; she gives the interview and then picks up some poetry.

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[lintamande]

"What was the bad thing that you didn't want to have feelings about?"

[warpfairy]

"The Vulcan government tried to make me get married and I didn't want to."

[lintamande]

This makes him go quite still.

"That's evil."

[warpfairy]

"Yes," she says, "I know."

[lintamande]

"We need to overthrow them."

[warpfairy]

"It's a little more complicated than that. But I am considering organizing a more moderate political complaint."

[lintamande]

"It's not complicated, that's evil and they might do it to someone else who can't teleport."

[warpfairy]

"I couldn't teleport. I was - unwell. I had to call Bella, and it was still more complicated than that."

[lintamande]

"Okay. Well if you decide to overthrow them we'll help you."

[warpfairy]

"Thank you, Fëanáro."

[lintamande]

"And I think you should overthrow them."

[warpfairy]

"Vulcans have very complicated marriage arrangements and they had reasons. They were wrong, but they were not doing it to hurt me."

[lintamande]

"Among Quendi forcing someone to marry is one of the evilest things you can do, more awful than killing them."

[warpfairy]

"Sometimes if Vulcans don't get married we die."

[lintamande]

"Oh.


It should still be your choice, though."

[warpfairy]

"Well, I know that, but Vulcans are an endangered species now and the Council did not think it was the time to be exacting about what things are and are not my choice."

[lintamande]

"So they're evil and we should overthrow them.

Also we should get resurrection working. Then Vulcans won't be endangered."

[warpfairy]

"That would be nice. The resurrection, not the overthrowing."

[lintamande]

He looks skeptical, but does not again suggest overthrowing.

[warpfairy]

Then T'Mir will not have to correct him again about whether the Vulcan government requires overthrow.

[lintamande]

He does tell Rúmil as soon as he sees him. "The Vulcan government tried to make T'Mir get married and so we need resurrection right away."

"Resurrection?" he says.

"So there are enough Vulcans and they don't do that. And because they might die if they don't get married."

"I see. Yes, let's work on that."

[warpfairy]

"...I don't object to inventing resurrection, but that's a little more obviously magic than a cleaner longer-range transporter."

[lintamande]

"Still," Fëanáro says. "That way people wouldn't have to decide between dying and being forced to be married, and we can't fix them being married."

[warpfairy]

"That's not usually the exact choice, I was simplifying a little."

[lintamande]

"That is the exact way it works for us," Rúmil says, frowning, "so it makes sense he interpreted you that way."