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>What if she's a run away research experiment and she's running from the scientists that created her?!
>Shes' probably an escapee from the research station
Even if that's true, it seems like it would be a really bad idea to accuse her of that right now!
>Don't press the issue, if only to keep things comfortable.
>Why not just chill for a while and enjoy the company? We can poke at her past later.
Yeah, it's probably the right call to just move on for now. It's not like it really matters that much to me why she's here, right?
>Did they shoot you down?
... Oh, right.
I would really like to ask this but that would be pretty much the opposite of dropping it. Still, I have to be sure to bring it up as soon as it seems like she trusts me even a little, because that's one question I probably do need to know the answer to.
"... uh, sure."
>"Okay. Chtelki. Thank you." She's very visibly relieved. I don't think she could be telegraphing this any more if she tried.
>More questions
Still got plenty of those!
>the door
"How do you get out of here? That door looked way too small."
>"Oh um there are other doors I just put that exit in later in the hopes that maybe the pygmies would use it which didn't exactly work out."
>"I could probably fit through it without breaking it too much. I think."
>what do you do
"You said you'd been here for twelve years? What have you been doing all this time?"
>"Um... watching broadcasts I pick up... reading... building stuff sometimes... trying to interact with the neumono, lately... ... honestly it's been really despairingly lonely and I'm glad you're here."
>"Um I mean I'm not glad you got shot with a missile or whatever! Just to have someone to talk to for a while."
That was less of an answer than I was expecting.
>pygmy language
"So... the neumono here didn't want you to learn their language? Are you sure?"
>"They definitely started talking way less suddenly and it wasn't long after I started trying to listen for it so I don't know what else it could be or how I'd find out!"
"I mean, neumono have this... empathy thing..."
>"Look I've seen a bunch of neumono media so trust me I know all about that."
"Oh."
There's kind of a pause, during which she just sort of looks at me, a little puzzled.
>salikai
"Maybe they think you're a salikai?"
>"I... wait did you think I was a salikai?"
"I mean... you're way too big... but... kind of?"
>"Oh."
Another awkward pause.
>replicate an aircraft
"So could you make me an aircraft with that replicator so I can get home? Maybe with some kind of defenses?"
>"Um... I'd have to come up with a design for it first since I don't think I have one, but I would probably be able to do that since I kinda know my way around that sort of thing. I mean it'd take a while and there'd have to be testing and stuff to make sure I give you something that actually works and won't crash into the ocean or whatever."
>"... But um I'd want to be sure I could trust you before I did something like that!"
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