For lastvoyages: Spam for Greenhouse

[can_has_vodka]

 [A pair of Rhode Island Red chickens in bright blue cloth diapers march around the floor of the greenhouse. Arkady sits just under the rotunda in Lotus. The lights are dimmed to night-cycle, but soft purple light emanates--from her, for she is deep in meditation, her mind expanded to take in the overwhelming panorama of possible futures and worlds spread ahead of them. On the Barge, there have been so many possibilities that predicting the future is almost impossible, but that is no excuse to miss practice. She loves the changes to the greenhouse, and though she can't quite enjoy them in her current state, she's happy enough that they will be there when she opens her eyes.]

[She senses the minds on the Deck and withdraws slightly, dodging away from investigating their thoughts. She gets lonely sometimes, stuck within the confines of his own mind, but it is a small price to pay for the opportunities here.]

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[can_has_vodka]

[She watches the torrent of images with delight. To her this is another wonder of the multiverse--all of humanity developing one lineage as a time toward people rather like her own.]

We have Alice. She's wonderful. But we have to let people in carefully. It's not like here. I have never been able to live "out" before. In a way it is a good trade for being without the other eleven. And I can start to get more clues on how we may coexist with humans.

[wedonot]

I hadn't really thought of it that way before, honestly. [At least not consciously. He's still pretty focused on trying to make sure people aren't uncomfortable with him and what he's capable of, generally waiting to give them the details if they haven't been paying attention to the things he's been saying on the network.] I mean, I haven't been hiding, but there are still people who seem uncomfortable about the idea of people being able to do what we can. It is still freer than I've ever been able to be before.

[He's almost quiet for a moment, thoughts shifting slightly.] Sometimes I do wonder if this place is a good environment to show people- [And here there's a very heavy undercurrent of Erik, although it holds true for Arthur and a few others, too.] That we can coexist with each other.

[can_has_vodka]

It is an interesting little community. Because it is small and close one cannot do something without seeing the way its effects circle back. Unless one is very good at rationalizing, but that doesn't seem to last very wrong here.

As for the rest, well, I mostly have to avoid startling people with where I teleport, and get permission to enter private areas. My mind, well...I try to stay out of people's thoughts but again, lonely.

[wedonot]

Well, if you're ever in need of someone to talk with, I certainly don't mind it.

[can_has_vodka]

I would like that very much. Besides, perhaps we can teach each other a bit. [She gathers her chickens into her lap and they settle in, blinking sleepily.]