001 - [VIDEO] - re-introductions

[intofireforever]

[The video feed turns on, and there's a young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes looking into the camera. She looks like a teenager, and she sort of is. She's wearing a very hopeful smile, and gives the camera a little wave.]

So...the Barge again. It's been a while.

[Her smile grows wider.]

I've been gone so long, there probably isn't anyone left who remembers me. My name's Laura. Laura Palmer. I was an inmate here, oh...it seems like forever ago, now! I didn't think I'd be coming back, but life is full of unexpected turns.

[She shrugs. She's rather perky today, mostly because she really wants to start out on the right foot. Her hope is nearly palpable.]

I'm a warden now, and I want to help out however I can. Who's in charge of the kitchen? Are there any shifts I can take over? I have experience in large-scale food preparation--I started the Meals-on-Wheels program in my town and I worked the dinner shift as an inmate. I'd be more than happy to sign on!

[Working in the kitchen is one of her fondest memories of her time here.]

If there's nothing free there, I can work in the library, I guess. Or maybe somewhere else. Let me know where I can volunteer!

[She loves volunteer work, guys. She always has.]

Comments

Re: [video]

[intofireforever]

Yep, that's the one.

[video]

[looksfine]

One of my colleagues comes from your world. [Well, not your world. Earth.] I have heard many interesting stories.

Re: [video]

[intofireforever]

What time is he from?

[video]

[looksfine]

Earth Stardate 2012.


[[ooc: Probably. No canon date has been established, though it's presumed to take place "present day"]]

[video]

[intofireforever]

Oh. I didn't live past 1989. Are any of your people on Earth in 2012?

[She exists during so many different times simultaneously now that saying "I'm from ____" could be false no matter what year she fills in the blank with.]

[video]

[looksfine]

What do you mean by 'my people'?


[There were several possible answers to this question, in fact.]

Re: [video]

[intofireforever]

You know, 'artificial intelligences'. Robots.

[video]

[looksfine]

To the best of my knowledge, my programing is unique. Even on Oa, my place of origin.

Re: [video]

[intofireforever]

Oh. I just thought you'd be part of a species, like humans, or one of the other kinds of people aboard. Time Lords, maybe.

I'm sorry. I didn't hurt your feelings, did I? It seems like I've got my foot in my mouth here.

[video]

[looksfine]

[She recognizes the title Time Lord.]

I am not offended. Though I do not see anything in your mouth at this time.

[video]

[intofireforever]

[She's silent for a moment before she smiles wide again. Not in a mean way; she finds what Aya just said endearing.]

It's an idiom. I meant, it felt like I was saying something embarrassing or stupid.

[video]

[looksfine]

Acknowledged.

[Foot in Mouth = Earth colloquialism for saying something 'embarrassing or stupid']