Backdated to before Lucifer arrives. But only just. Audio: lopez

[anormie]

Okay so like. Space, amirite? [Yes, she says it like that all run together.} While this is really cool and all, and I'm definitely super excited for it. Well, at least I wouldn't be if I didn't lowkey think I'm also like losing my mind. Cause all of this is definitely something that I've imagined and written fanfics about and stuff. But also uh yeah. Worrying. Super worrying.

[Yes, Ella is definitely thinking that maybe all of the stuff with Chloe and Pete caused her to lose her mind to the point where this is an audio post and not a visual one because her neck is still wreathed in bruises from finding out what happened.]

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[anormie]

Didn't say I needed one.

[That's a bit... defensive there, sweetie.]

[bilocates]

Didn't suggest you did.

[Your defensiveness is showing, Ella.]

I'm not one, so I can't tell you anything beyond what I do know. What I do know is this ship is real. You're not hallucinating it. I would know.

[He knows all about hallucinations!]

[anormie]

[Ella is used to people talking about shrinks and then suggesting (badly) that she needed one. Well, at least at home. Home in Detroit and not LA. Which is really home now and that's complicated. At least back home Linda is her bro.]

How would you know?

[bilocates]

Because I've had plenty, and this isn't one.

[anormie]

You did? How would you know then?

[bilocates]

They're different. In a way you can verify they aren't real, kind of. It's hard to explain. Anyway, I've been here long enough now that if they were hallucinations they would have broken down and they haven't.

That, and drugs work to stop them. That hasn't happened either.

[Listen, he's not going to pretend he's some kind of moral paragon here.]

So, for all intents and purposes, this is real.

[Unless she's hallucinating him too.]

[anormie]

Unless you're part of the hallucination.

[A pause, and she adds almost under her breath:]

Or a ghost.

[bilocates]

Maybe. Do you have a vivid imagination?

[That might not be helping, Simon.

He sounds faintly amused.]

I'm not a ghost.

[But if she ends up thinking he is he couldn't blame her.]

[anormie]

Yeah? Good. Cause it would be really kinda weird if you were and on a ship you know? Way too Event Horizon or the Cube or something.

Also, hi! I'm Ella, by the way.

[bilocates]

I don't remember if I've seen those movies. [At least one of them sounds familiar. It's been a while. Anyway.]

Hello, Ella. [Oh no that's almost as fun to say as hello, Alex.] I'm Simon.

[anormie]

Oh, are you not like a movie person or something, Simon?

[bilocates]

I've led something of a... sheltered life.

[That's a way to put it.]

[anormie]

Oh man, were your family just like all fundamentalist Christian who thought movies were the devil?

[bilocates]

Think more... the other direction and you're not too far off.

[anormie]

Wait? Like atheists? Not that I'm saying that they're bad or anything. I respect whatever people's faith or not faith is. It's a personal decision.

[bilocates]

[An amused sound through his nose. He's almost amazed she went the atheist direction first.]

No, not atheists. Think more... death cult.

[Demon worshipping death cult.]

[anormie]

'Death cult?' Really? Like what kind of Death cult cause dude, there's a lot of them.

[bilocates]

Are you familiar with the Sumerian goddess Tiamat?

[anormie]

Like from DnD?

[bilocates]

I... believe the Sumerian mythology predates the game by a little bit.

[Just a little]

Dragon goddess of creation and chaos, yes.

[anormie]

And your family like worshipped her or whatever?

[bilocates]

My parents, yes. They were...

[How to tell a stranger who isn't aware you've been incarcerated for murder about your zealous family?]

Extremely devout.

[anormie]

Oh wow that's heavy. But hey, at least now you can watch stuff. I mean if we ever get to a point where we can get stuff. There's not really a lot here it looks like.

[bilocates]

[Yeah, he does that sometimes Drops heavy topics on people without thinking about it being inappropriate. Oops? However, her comment gives him pause.

A really, really long pause.]

...I guess I can.

[Like the fact that he's actually free to kind of do something that's outside of weird cult stuff has only just dawned on him.]

[anormie]

Yeah, of course! Like this is awesome! It means that you get to have fresh eyes with toooooonnnnssss of stuff! What kind of stories do you like? We can go from there next time we stop!

[Yes, Simon Ella has appointed herself your pop culture guide. Congratulations? ]