expectaspectre: (the heart of the matter)
a ghost girl ([personal profile] expectaspectre) wrote in [community profile] returnjourneylogs 2022-03-29 02:48 am (UTC)

She knows it's just politeness, but there's always a little bit of an internal cringe whenever someone refers to her by her last name only. Just a teeny tiny reminder that she's a part of her shitty family, forever. Not that anyone on this spaceship millions of miles away from anything remotely resembling home knows that. Anyway.

"Maybe Archimedes could have it printed out for you? Or maybe you could buy a full diagram from the Commissary when it comes around again? If you haven't got it figured out by then, which I bet you could." He is some kind of engineering-science-genius-type, isn't he? That was the impression she got. He got a little hung up on the we in his sentence, though-- maybe he's not used to working on his own.

"Is there anything you don't understand yet? I think I heard your discipline is a little different from this, somewhere."

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