[She sounds apprehensive, but if he thinks he has answers, she wants to hear them. She's already spent a good deal of time thinking about how she's going to handle this, and it hasn't started to feel any less overwhelming.]
I talked it over with John. John Watson? And we think you might be like... a zombie. Of some kind. Which sounds awful, but it kind of explains the biting thing. Do you know what that is?
It's - alright, so where I come from, zombies... zombies are people who have died and come back to life, and they gotta eat people. But they're usually not very smart and can't have conversations, and obviously you're way smarter than me so that's why I said kind of.
John says there's stuff in his world about zombies where it's more like a virus, and you can learn to control it. So it's kind of like being sick, but you can learn to not be.
[She's never really thought of it in those terms before, but it fits, and without even having to think about it she knows that that's exactly what they were doing.]
... Yeah, maybe for now. [ He admits, holding his tablet a little more tightly. ] Just until we can figure out how to fix this. But you can call me whenever you want, okay? If you get lonely, or if someone is in the same house as you on accident and you need help.
I know it sucks traveling here by yourself, I'm sorry.
I see the other children in the classroom. And sometimes, when I stand in the right place in my cell and look through the window, I can see into their cells, too.
[She hesitates, and then goes on. She likes talking about this. It's relaxing to talk about life back on the base, when everything was simpler and she didn't have all these new thoughts and worries.]
I made up a language of signs. I wanted to teach it to the others so that we could talk through the windows, but Miss Justineau said that I couldn't.
You made up a language of signs? [ That actually makes him grin a bit. ] I know something about that, actually. I'll tell you in a second. Why couldn't you talk to the others?
[She hesitates, then turns on the video and signs something quickly. It's definitely not ASL or any other known sign language, but she's fast and fluid with it, and clearly practiced.]
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Date: 2017-01-09 07:19 am (UTC)[She sounds apprehensive, but if he thinks he has answers, she wants to hear them. She's already spent a good deal of time thinking about how she's going to handle this, and it hasn't started to feel any less overwhelming.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-10 02:18 am (UTC)[She knows if she had, she would remember.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 03:08 am (UTC)John says there's stuff in his world about zombies where it's more like a virus, and you can learn to control it. So it's kind of like being sick, but you can learn to not be.
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Date: 2017-01-10 03:25 am (UTC)[She isn't sure whether to be relieved or disappointed. Being a zombie sounds awful, and yet... you can learn to not be.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 03:28 am (UTC)I'm not really a doctor or scientist or any sort of expert.
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:24 am (UTC)[She's never really thought of it in those terms before, but it fits, and without even having to think about it she knows that that's exactly what they were doing.]
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Date: 2017-01-12 04:46 pm (UTC)Are you still alone?
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Date: 2017-01-12 04:48 pm (UTC)[She takes a deep breath, steeling her voice.]
I should be.
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Date: 2017-01-12 04:50 pm (UTC)I know it sucks traveling here by yourself, I'm sorry.
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Date: 2017-01-12 05:46 pm (UTC)What do you do while you're by yourself? Read a lot, I bet, right?
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Date: 2017-01-12 08:11 pm (UTC)[She hesitates, and then goes on. She likes talking about this. It's relaxing to talk about life back on the base, when everything was simpler and she didn't have all these new thoughts and worries.]
I made up a language of signs. I wanted to teach it to the others so that we could talk through the windows, but Miss Justineau said that I couldn't.
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Date: 2017-01-17 04:05 pm (UTC)video
Date: 2017-01-17 05:21 pm (UTC)Those are the letters for your name.
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