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.

Comments

[warpfairy]

"Bella can block me if I try to establish psi contact with her and she's not cooperating; but she's yet a third sort of thing. I don't know."

[lintamande]

Quendi cannot block Vulcans from establishing psi contact. This suggests they also can't block Betazoids. Inconvenient if anyone were to want to spy on them.

[warpfairy]

T'Mir thinks that use of Betazoid mindreading as a spying technique on a nonhostile neighbor is illegal, but that doesn't guarantee no one will try it.

[lintamande]

Can Bella provide shields with subtle artistry somehow?

[subtly_artistic]

Bella is in fact really good at shields but she can't produce flexible shields that have to live in non-subtle-artist brains. They might have trouble using osanwë through anything really robust.

[lintamande]

Oh. Inconvenient. Perhaps they'll find her if there's actually a Betazoid in town.

[subtly_artistic]

She thinks she might be able to notice one trying to listen to her, so there's that.

[lintamande]

The long priorities list consumes the next few weeks until T'Mir has to go, if she's going, to New Vulcan.

[warpfairy]

Yeah, she's going, a little early. She teleports Prometheus to an obscuring nebula nearby and then flies the rest of the way.

[subtly_artistic]

Two days later Bella suddenly teleports away without pausing to explain.

[lintamande]

They are anxious, but wait for the two of them to come back.

[subtly_artistic]

Bella is back four hours later looking like she's been crying.

[lintamande]

"Hug?" Rúmil says.

[subtly_artistic]

Hug!

[lintamande]

"Do you want to talk?"

[subtly_artistic]

"She wasn't okay and now she's okay."

[lintamande]

"I'm glad that she was able to reach you when not okay."

[subtly_artistic]

"Yeah."

[lintamande]

There's obviously more but he doesn't ask.





"Should we expect her back?"

[subtly_artistic]

"In a week."

[lintamande]

"Okay." Hugs.

[warpfairy]

When T'Mir comes back she is doing a - thing.

It is sort of hard to identify exactly what the thing is. She doesn't so much have flat affect as... no affect.

[lintamande]

Rúmil definitely notices this. Rúmil is worried. He does not say anything. He does mention Angband occasionally, in case anyone would like to know that that's a topic that can be discussed if it'd be helpful.

[warpfairy]

"What is Angband?"

[lintamande]

"It was a stronghold of the Enemy during the war. I spent about a century there as a prisoner."