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[problematical]

[ River's sitting in her suite in the Water, evidenced by the soft colours and natural materials in her background. She touches the screen carefully, teeth pinching her lower lip as though she doesn't know recording has started -- but then she starts speaking without changing anything, so maybe she does know. ]

High chance of improbability even in this 'Verse, can't go between-between-between. Even if you use orthogonal coordinates, meeting at right angles. Two wrongs to make a right, two rights to make a wrong, the graph is broken. Order of chelonii or testudines but even the largest can't hold a city. Can't check the book, no chapters on waking up in new places.

[ She seems briefly frustrated, whether at the improbability of her situation or merely her own inability to verify what the kedan told her is unclear. She hadn't had the opportunity to think on it much with being drafted into the bottle, with all that had followed that and now that she did, she was still no better equipped to explain anything. Her fingers tangle in a dingy chain around her neck, tugging at a small ring and charm that seem very tarnished. ]

I'm supposed to have a job.

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Comments

[backinakidflash]

Yeah. But that which does not kill us makes us stronger, so I say if you survive staring into the abyss, you're tough enough to not let it get to you.

[A beat.]

I don't mind Nietzsche so much. He's better than Hobbes. "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Words to live by.

[problematical]

[ River smiles, enjoying the rapid trading of quotations. It's nice to have someone who keeps up with her on a verbal level. ]

Where did you learn?

[backinakidflash]

Learn what?

[He looks almost confused by the question.]

I've been to a bunch of high schools if that's what you mean. But I picked that stuff up on my own. I read a lot. What about you?

[problematical]

I went to school on Osiris but it was hard... it was very slow.

[ The way she says it is apologetic, almost guiltily. ]

But I took a lot of graduates. Two of them were in Earth-That-Was studies.

[backinakidflash]

[He doesn't feel guilty about it, but he does sympathize.]

School is never, ever harder than when you're too quick for it. Never heard of the Earth-That-Was, though.

[problematical]

Isn't that where you're from?

[backinakidflash]

Since I dunno what it is, how'm I supposed to know?