simulation 002; voice

[i_run_you_chase]

[Private to Miss Parker]

[it is 3:18 am]

[Jarod will be holding up his walkman with the recorded sound of a phone ringing to the communicator]

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[Voice.]

[yourunichase]

[Grumpy and sleepy.]

What?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the average cruising speed of a ship this size is about 18.5 knots---that's around 34.3 kilometers an hour? And if you've been traveling on this ship for a year, that means you've traveled about 300,468 kilometers, which is 186,701-ish miles. Taking into accounts stops and the natural slowing down of a ship facing currents, I've calculated that you've traveled 275,000 kilometers. Which is 170,877 and a half miles, if you must know.

Which means you, Miss Parker, have traveled the circumference of the Earth 6.8 times.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Tell me, Jarod, have you been on deck yet?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting view. I taught astrology at Montgomery College and I don't recognize the constellations out there.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Makes all the talk of traveling across the earth rather pointless, don't you think?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Around, not across.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

The point still stands.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Now, Miss Parker, I didn't wake you up from your deepest sleep cycle to argue semantics.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

So much for that breaking the circle thing we talked about.

I should have known it wouldn't be that easy.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

You didn't have to answer.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

It wouldn't of mattered if I hadn't.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

It's that circle you mentioned, Miss Parker. I think ours is more of a chain. And a chain requires more than one.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

So how do we break it?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I don't know.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

There are no secrets to chase here, Jarod. You know I don't know a god damn thing about your family.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

There are secrets to chase everywhere.

I just think you've given up looking.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

And what do you think is here, Jarod?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

We're in the middle of space, Miss Parker, on a ship full of self-proclaimed guilty and self-proclaimed saviors. I think that all we have are secrets.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

[Musing over it.]

I don't get called that much anymore, you know.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

[this throws him for a moment]

Don't get called what?

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Miss Parker.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Does anyone here know your first name?

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Of course not.

[An amused tone.] It's not even in my file.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think it would be.

Does your father know?

[voice]

[yourunichase]

[Annoyance and the sound of Parker shifting against her sheets before she reached for a cigarette.]

Of course he does, Jarod.