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Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

Well, let's do science and find out. At least you're small and I'm in good shape. C'mere.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

[There's a brief hesitation as they rub their head one last time, but they'll move closer.]

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

Here goes nothing.

[ and she'll squat so they can climb on her shoulders. mostly solid. slightly precarious. a little floaty ]

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

[Clambering up, but unconsciously gripping tighter when they notice she's still not entirely, 100% solid.]

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

[ she tries not to yelp, anyway. success. ]

All right, hang on. I guess I can... float, or something, too, so... that's another new experience, huh.

[ she's just going to bob lightly upwards and forward. ]

You'd think if the laws of gravity didn't apply to me it would also make everything only weigh a trivial amount. The physics of this don't make any sense at all.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

It might be easier if you don't think too hard about it.

[A beat. And then:]

You can do this. I trust in you.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

[ she nearly just like fucking drops them??? ]

Wh—

—where did that come from?

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

Well... I am trusting you to carry me. Although one of my squares is also to "encourage someone."

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

Ah—ahaha.

[ she tries to heft them up a little bit more on her shoulders. ]

Sorry, for some reason it just felt very sudden.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

It was pretty sudden. But it wasn't a lie, either.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

[ ...

we don't have time or emotional bandwidth to unpack whatever the fuck we're feeling here ]

Well, I'll do my best. Where to, then?

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

I don't really have a preference. Is there a place you would find it easier to complete your tasks in?

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

You're pretty easygoing... honestly, I'm not sure. Probably where there's a lot of people, so I could carry you back towards the dorms.

Feeling like you're back on the open road yet?

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

Not quite... either it would be silent except for the engine motor, or Hermes would be talking to me the whole way, and you're much more pleasant to speak to by a longshot.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

...somehow I didn't expect to compare favorably as a conversation partner to the companion you already had.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

Hermes can be very, very annoying.

[Though they don't actually sound too bitter or anything, just exasperated.]

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

...somehow I thought you traveled alone, though?

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

Hermes is my motorrad partner.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

Oh, I see... or—that sounds like a local term for an astromech? I know they can get erratic if you let them develop a personality.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

All motorrads have a personality.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

...maybe it's not what I'm thinking of, then.

Though, I know a lot of people get superstitious about machines developing a self, I've just never believed in it.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

I couldn't believe it at first either, but it was a man repairing a motorrad who told me about it. When you travel with a motorrad, you make a pact - a motorrad can move quickly, but it can't go anywhere without balance. So as the rider, you provide balance, and the motorrad provides speed, and both of you get to enjoy traveling more.

It would be hard to make a pact like that if the motorrad couldn't talk.

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

...I guess in a way it's like what happens everywhere with vehicles, except you say it out loud.

Re: Ghost version!

[quickpersuader]

It would be rude not to, wouldn't it?

Re: Ghost version!

[identitypolitics]

Well, I guess, er—if something can talk. That's mostly an academic question when it's just a machine, though.