[ text | un: oswin ]

[oddbod]

[Because it's late, and she doesn't sleep, and she misses her home, and the four metal walls are making her skin crawl - ]

Tell me about your world.

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[marineris]

jesus. of course it was.

i told you mars hasn't been fully terraformed yet. that's going to take another century or so. right now, everyone lives in massive domes, and all of us are working towards the terraforming project one way or another. our cities are all connected by high speed rail lines.

[oddbod]

Oh, that sounds interesting. [And she means it. It's space, so it's up her alley.] What exactly did you do?

[marineris]

i'm a marine.

[Well... She should correct that.]

was a marine.

[oddbod]

Oh, we have those on Earth. In America, though. My boyfriend was sort of the equivalent.

[marineris]

what do you mean, sort of?

[oddbod]

Well, I'm not quite sure of the differences. And besides, he was out by the time I met him.

[marineris]

i don't know much about earth's history. not that far back. the un marines fulfill the same function we do, for the most part.

[oddbod]

Much of it is full of completely needless wars and countries not getting along, but there were some particularly needless ones when I was a teenager, and into my twenties. He fought in one of them, on the ground, doing a lot of things he didn't want to do.

[marineris]

i used to think war with earth was inevitable, even necessary, but i was wrong. it's a waste.

[oddbod]

Sometimes fighting is necessary, but never war. There's always a better way, if people would just talk to one another.

[marineris]

yeah, that'd be nice, wouldn't it? talking doesn't always work.

[oddbod]

I've got this friend who could talk the universe down from war a million times over. I'm afraid I don't quite have the talent, though. Something always seems to go sideways.

[marineris]

i'm a marine. i don't solve problems with my people skills. i don't know how people manage it.

[oddbod]

I don't know how marines manage to solve problems with their marine skills, personally. Brawn's a bit of a mystery to me.

[marineris]

yeah? you look like you could punch someone out if you wanted.

[oddbod]

Well, thank you very much. That's certainly flattering.