23 - And what is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?

[notdreaming]

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[ For all the time Kara spends in her room, she spends at least an equal amount of time in the Enclosure, soaking up the sun and enjoying the sights. She's very content these days, satisfied with the friends she's made on the barge and the progress Kyle has made toward graduation. Some day soon she will be able to return home, she can feel it.

Those who frequent the pub know where to find their bouncer and amateur drink mixer. She is merciless with troublemakers and any who aren't supposed to be drinking. She can still be found in the library as well, continuing her studies of Terran medicine as well as that of other species. She's always been passionate about learning: it's as natural to her as breathing.

If she's been having bad dreams, it doesn't seem to have dented her mood yet. ]

[ Dreams are in comments! ]

Comments

[mercurialize]

[You are crazy.]

How?

[notdreaming]

We had VR demonstrations. The course was very set on imprinting the horrors of war onto our minds. The dreams were just... more immediate and emotional.

[mercurialize]

VR? So something like this?

[He uproots some grass for demonstration.]

[notdreaming]

Exactly like this, but you can't take the grass home with you. It isn't real. [ Thats what's so impressive about this place. There's an actual sun that gives off a half solar radiation! ]

[mercurialize]

[He wipes his hands together to get rid of it.]

So, what? The VR and the dream you had felt like the same two things?

[notdreaming]

Similar enough that I didn't learn anything new.

[mercurialize]

I've never actually been on a battlefield.

Who knows, maybe I could learn something from it.

[notdreaming]

Maybe. It wouldn't be anything good.

[ She glances over at him, trying to judge the answer of her next question before she asks it. ]

Did you see anything else?

[mercurialize]

Not all lessons are pleasant ones, right?

And no, not of yours anyway.

[notdreaming]

Good. [ Wait that sounds kind of bad. ] I mean, I only died the once, and it wasn't pleasant. [ But she knows that Vergil saw something more - the death of H'el. ]

[mercurialize]

[He raises an eyebrow. Way to not sound convincing. But whatever you say, Kara.]

Yeah, I noticed. Sorry again about that. I'd say won't happen again. But you know me.

[Stupid grin.]

[notdreaming]

[ Yes well that is what she says. ]

I do know you. And it wasn't you.

[ details ]

[mercurialize]

[Details!]

Yeah, well. At least it happened here, or sort of here.

[He doesn't want to consider any alternatives. Apparently some absolutes do scare him.]

[notdreaming]

[ She smiles, touched by his implied concern. ]

I'm pretty hard to kill just about anywhere else.

[mercurialize]

[Don't smile, this is serious :c]

Right. Not-so-invincible girl.

[notdreaming]

It's okay to be jealous.