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]

And Rúmil does not comment on this unless she would like to talk about it, but Fëanáro goes "you're back!!"

[warpfairy]

"...I've been back for a couple days."

[lintamande]

"You were being like a Maia who doesn't know how to do faces. What happened?"

[warpfairy]

"Oh, I don't lose my ability to make facial expressions when I'm suppressing, they just wouldn't be meaningful and I don't prefer to make deceptive ones."

[lintamande]

"That makes sense. I've never seen anyone but a Maia not do faces before, though. Are you - not feeling anything? When you're like that? Why would you want that?"

[warpfairy]

"When I'm doing that I don't feel anything, and I do it so I can think clearly instead of being distracted by upsetting feelings. Then I deal with the feelings after I already have thoughts about them set up."

[lintamande]

"Can I learn it? I have a blasting spell for emotions but maybe that's not the best way."

[warpfairy]

"It's pretty hard for people who aren't Vulcans or part Vulcans to learn, but I could try, if you want."

[lintamande]

"In my fate when I'm mad I kill a lot of people."

[warpfairy]

"...Vulcan used to be a very violent planet, and then everyone started doing the kind of meditation that lets them suppress emotions and it became very peaceful. I usually prefer to have my emotions, but they're usually pretty nice; it's preferable to have the off switch. I'll walk you through a book on it to start and we'll see where you can get with it."

[lintamande]

"Thanks. These emotions were not nice?"

[warpfairy]

"They were not."

[lintamande]

"But you didn't kill anyone! Or burn any boats!"

[warpfairy]

"...No. New Vulcan, like Vulcan, is a desert planet; I'm not sure there's a single boat on it."

[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."