text; after the babadont plot

[bothbarrels]

θ: Who here is an artificial life form? How were you created?

θ: Who here has siblings? How do you get along?

θ: Who here has a close friend who you consider closer than family? How did you develop that bond?

θ: Who here knows you died back where you came from? How are you dealing with that information?

[ Yes, it's the middle of the night and Theta is bored. Plus he just wants to know more about the people here. He hopes everyone who responds sticks to text; he doesn't want to awaken North. ]

Comments

[takenalive]

That's interesting. I had believed humans saw trees only as obstacles, decorations, and building materials.

[inner_child]

Depends on the human, I guess. Some of them like to climb trees.

[takenalive]

They're descended from arboreal ancestors, aren't they? Some of the physical structure suggests it.

[inner_child]

Yeah, humans and trees have a common ancestor going way back. Something about evolution.

[takenalive]

Humans and Earth trees, anyway.

I had an elder brother once. It's possible he lives, but I have doubts.

[inner_child]

Do you miss him? I miss my brothers. I have Delta here but that's all.

[takenalive]

Sometimes. He was an adult by the time I was born. Or, if not an adult, part of the Fleet in any case, so there was always a distance.

[inner_child]

Oh. I know about distance, too. I wish I could have gotten to know them. As more than just...concepts.

[takenalive]

You might not have liked what you came to know.

[inner_child]

Oh, well. I guess that's true. Omega and Sigma were bad, I don't know if I would have liked to have known them any better.