WEEK 14 - I have been — and always shall be — your friend.

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (14)

monday (41) survivors You stand with your friends, your family, and your enemies, shoulder to shoulder. The deceased and the living are the same, now, and you've been reunited with the person trapped on the opposite ship. You have four choices. Four options laid before you - five, if you're smart about it. You have the option of staying on the Nuwa, a ship pre-programmed to land somewhere safe, soon, and then it's your's for the taking. You have the option of entering the Nuwa's virtual reality and crafting your own perfect world, but knowing it was a perfect world created by your own hand. Your third option is one of the Cradles, a machine created to bring you bliss, and permit you the dream you've always wanted, without the knowledge it's a virtual reality. Your fourth option lays in front of you, on the bridge of the Nuwa, and it's a tear in the fabric of reality, but you can see your home waiting for you. It looks idyllic, perfect, just the way you'd want it to be. Your fifth option lies in another tear - the tear of a friend. Perhaps their heart is kind enough to take in a stray. The choice is your's to make, and whatever you choose, know that, for the first time in fourteen weeks, it's your choice. taken list profiles private conversations setting rulebook ENTER COMMAND_

Comments

[bloodbiter]

I just mean that you shouldn't hesitate if you know what you want to do. Though... I don't see why you would disintegrate at all. And I certainly don't think you should feel, ah, bad.

[a tilt of her head]

To rule, I think. If anything, this place has taught me not to hesitate, and my father can't be allowed to continue the way he's been running our country.

[chiseler]

Monsters tend to do that when they die where I'm from. But I see your point.

[He tilts his head.] So you'll become a queen? Or something else?

[bloodbiter]

There's an important difference here. You aren't a monster.

[she nods]

If he won't pass the crown along formally... Nobody believes in him or trusts him. I think they'll listen to me whether I hold the title officially or not.

[chiseler]

Something I'm still surprised by even fourteen weeks later.

[Though he seems to be appraising her briefly.] I think you look worthy of the crown either way. How hard can it be to overthrow the guy? [And a small grin follows.] You'll make a great leader. After everything that's happened here? I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[bloodbiter]

That you aren't a monster, or that you haven't disintegrated?

[a pause, her smile growing a bit warmer]

...Thank you. After everything that's happened, it means a great deal to hear you say that.