001 👻 un: ghost

[disequilibria]

hi, i'm ava

[ she's gone through the various stages of grief in the days since her arrival. grief at losing her chance of learning how to live a normal life. grief at losing the first person who'd really understood her pain. grief at losing a cure that had been within her grasp.

grief at being on a damn space station, of all things. (maybe they should be renamed the various stages of anger.)

she's settled on something akin to resignation, for now. she's here. she still wants to try. ]

what are things you consider normal? how many of them can you still do here

Comments

[episodically]

[ yeah, sounded painful. sounded really painful. ]

don't take this the wrong way but how are you even alive?

[disequilibria]

i almost wasn't
but i'm better now

[episodically]

just like that?

how'd you get better?

[ was it the same way he was suddenly not dead? ]

[disequilibria]

not just like that
there is a cure
i tried to take it, but then they gave it to me willingly

[ she's still very ??? about that. it's good, she's glad, but she's also confused. other than ben, no one has really done anything out of kindness for her. there's always been an angle, a way in which they wanted to use her and her powers.

especially at shield - or hydra, or whatever. ]

[episodically]

so, you can't do that anymore? you're good as new? back to just a baseline human with the normal aches and pains?

[ look out for those morning knee aches, if so. ]

[disequilibria]

for now

[ she wishes it had been a permanent cure, but no. not yet. and now that she's here -

she doesn't know how to get more quantum energy. ]

[episodically]

for now?

[ he repeats that because it just sounds so ominous. ]

there gonna be a problem?

[disequilibria]

[ no point in lying ]

yes

[episodically]

for who?

[ important question. ]

[disequilibria]

i'll die without more quantum energy

[episodically]

you certain? because i was dead when i got here and...?

[ he was pretty alive now, wasn't he? ]

[disequilibria]

unless this place is full of quantum energy, i'm pretty sure

[episodically]

well.

[ not good. ]

i really don't know if that's going to be possible. this station's got some good tech but a lot of it's broken or dormant. no idea where you'd find something that high powered here. not sure what's down on that planet, though.

[disequilibria]

i don't want to die

[episodically]

look, we'll figure something out. there's a lot of smart people here. you're not gonna die, okay. you're not.

[disequilibria]

i've heard that before

[episodically]

not from me, you haven't.

[disequilibria]

so why is hearing it from you different

[episodically]

because i'm a genius and i make things happen. and because i was dead from radiation when i showed up here and i'm alive right now. there's ways of making it work.

[disequilibria]

what kind of radiation?

[episodically]

bad radiation.

[ sorry, he just can't help himself. ]

radiation from a warp core of a starship.

[disequilibria]

never heard of a warp core before

[ a minute later: ]

i'm sorry

[episodically]

don't be. it needed to be done to save my ship and my crew. i'd do it again.

[disequilibria]

you sacrificed yourself?

[episodically]

had to be done.