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[in_the_blood]

"Hi, this is Cassie. Leave a message and I'll get back to you."

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[in_the_blood]

Say anything? Why would I say anything? What's to say?

Other than the fact that nobody is piloting this ship?

[leaps]

Cassie.

[ sulu sounds a little panicked. ]

[in_the_blood]

Don't "Cassie" me. Why the hell isn't this public knowledge?!

[leaps]

Do you really think people would take that any better than you are now?

[in_the_blood]

... They have a right to know.

But I haven't told anyone yet. So you can relax for a while.

[leaps]

And say what? We're heading to a locked in destination and we don't know where? It doesn't help. We couldn't change it if we wanted to.

[ sulu was an optimist once upon a time, man. ]

You shouldn't. Please.

[in_the_blood]

... I won't. But only because ... it's not my secret to tell. I'm not that callous.

[leaps]

I know you're not. And I won't...I'm not going to say anything. About what I saw. And what I felt.

[in_the_blood]

[Well that's not ominous at all. Cautiously:]

... What did you feel?

[leaps]

Things that were yours. Emotion, I think.

[in_the_blood]

[Drily:] Really? Well that's a relief. It'd be weird if you were feeling something that wasn't an emotion.

[leaps]

Look, I'm trying not to...I don't want to remember all of it. These aren't mine.

[in_the_blood]

Nothing good, huh?

[leaps]

I've never seen magic before.

[ you bet this is the hardest part for him to handle. ]

[in_the_blood]

[Cassie almost laughs, but it just comes out like an expulsion of air.]

... I'm guessing magic doesn't feature too strongly in sci-fi land, huh. Unless you live in the Star Wars universe.

[leaps]

The only magic I saw was my great-grandfather pulling quarters out of my ear. We have tech that works like magic, but nothing that we can't explain. Scotty would flip.