Pyeknu Wrote:The final small part before crunch-time.I've written complete stories that are longer than these "small parts"...
Pyeknu Wrote:"Tell me this, Doug-san: Does Eimi-san like being in a box?""This is some strange new meaning of 'help' that I wasn't previously aware of. As for the question, I can speak for myself, thank you very much. My father offered to build a human form for me months before I met Doug. I refused. And you don't need to know why."
I jolted on hearing that slightly-cold voice, and then I turned to see a girl with green-highlighted black hair standing at the open doorway to my cabin. She was in Navy combat dress – as the local black work dress was called here – but had Air Force blue epaulettes on her shoulders, they marked with the unit tag 21 ACCS, which indicated the 21st Air Communications and Control Squadron, the mobile signals command and support group for Haida's aerospace contingent, 21 Space Wing of the Canadian Forces Air Command. Her family name ASAI was on her chest under the squadron's crest, a sky blue field with a two-headed thunderbird of Haida over a trio of lightning flashes emitting from the Earth under the thunderbird's tail. "Mayumi-chan!" Naoko then snapped. "Even if you'd want to help Eimi-san like you did Lal-san when we met up with the Enterprise crew at Christmas time, there IS the problem of what happens when something from another dimension transits to this dimension and vice-versa." As Eimi and I both gaped at her, Naoko added, "Especially if you decide to create a bioroid body for her!"
Oh, dear. Eimi's angry. That's never good. Maybe she won't do anything rash - she's probably downloading the Haida's entire database by now and obtaining new knowledge always cheers her up - but I'd better have a talk with her later, just to be sure. And I doubt Eimi will ever be friends with Mayumi-chan.
(Naoko gets Eimi's reason right, BTW - she was built that way, and Eimi's comfortable in her own body. But because of the way Mayumi asked, Eimi will never confirm that while she's in this universe.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012