[ OPEN ] Hot Springs Episode!

[shri]

CHARACTERS: EVERYONE
WHERE: The Second Flight
WHEN: DAY :022
SUMMARY: The Sauna!
WARNINGS: Nekkid times.

[ A few hours after the murder, she hasn't blown the ship up, and here they are. Another knock knock on everyone's brain: ]

( For those of you that are interested - I have secured us a place at the Sauna. Free for us to be use without interruption from outsiders.

You are to be clean before you come in. )

[ Maybe you're here because she bullied you, maybe you want to soak - maybe you're the poor bastard that is standing guard at the door. Either way, welcome to the Suana, have fun. Or don't. ]

Comments

[shiro2hero]

[There's a flicker of gratitude toward her. She didn't have to fix the wraps. He'd have dealt with it if she didn't -- but still.]

[Silence, though, as she speaks. Chewing his lip. This is all far out of the range of his own expertise. Give him space, give him a ship and a crew. This metaphysical stuff is far, far more difficult.]

The people you saw didn't have an emotional connection? Like... we do here?

[miscreant]

No. We moved as one mind, with one purpose without division or distraction. At times, we ceased to be individuals. Tying emotion to it would have hampered its efficiency.

[She has double downed on that opinion since waking. Emotion was terrible, and got in the way of allowing her to act as she normally might.]

I cannot help but feel we would have made more progress here if things were more similar in operation.

[shiro2hero]

If none of us had autonomy. If... we were all just one being.

[Sorry, Seviilia. That's not something he can really get on board with as things stand now.]

[He studies the ground -- or, more accurately, the water.]

Wouldn't working more as a team accomplish that, too?

[miscreant]

A hivemind typically removes bothersome things, such as conflicting morals or petty offense. It can be accomplished of course, it is simply easier to accomplish such things when there is automatic consensus.

[She offers him a gentle shrug, watching him stare into the water intently. She doesn’t necessarily expect agreement — having tasted both walks of life, free will was nothing to take for granted. But she would be lying to say that she didn’t find it inconvenient at times.]

I also do not recall feeling the individual’s mind quite so keenly.

[This time, its a little bitter. It isn’t that she doesn’t like Murphy, but he was rather emotionally volatile — an area of living she will never quite be used to.]

[shiro2hero]

There's other ways to accomplish that, too. Talking and planning. But... since I've been here, those things just seem like they're running us in circles more than anything.

[Which isn't something he likes to dwell on. But there it is.]

... that's... not all bad, in some cases. Like when you care about someone.

[miscreant]

Yes. Interesting, don’t you think?

[Hivemind club is the future, Shiro. But she isn’t here to preach, so she leaves him with his obviously disturbed thoughts.

Besides, what comes after is far more disagreeable.]

I am afraid I must disagree. It is dreadful.

[She fights very hard not to think of The Darkling as the exception to the rule. She had not necessarily cared about him in the way she is sure that Shiro is implying, but things between them were quite good in more ways than she would care to admit out loud.]

[shiro2hero]

"Interesting" is... definitely one way to put it, Seviilia.

[There are other ways, ways that are less... charitable. His own opinion borders on "frustrating".]

[Even the team back home was never this dysfunctional.]

There's nothing beneficial about it? For you?

[miscreant]

[There is a brief smirk — a knowing, suggestive sort, as she peers pointedly down her nose and lets the cloth wrapped around her shoulders slide down just slightly as she leans forward.

Its not really a view, but she knows it will probably be enough to fluster hin.]

I am charmed by your interest...but I do not believe you are as interested in that answer as you think you are.

[shiro2hero]

[It is.]

[His head snaps up, and his eyes focus determinedly on the wall across the room. On the interesting rock fixtures there.]

It's -- not that kind of interest, Seviilia. [Yes, there is undoubtedly something attractive in her muscular shoulders, and her command. But -- spoken for. He's spoken for.]

I'm asking as a friend.