kaolin fire presents :: writing :: fiction

"snap"

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F&C :: 20050202 :: snap :: http://www.stwa.net/scrawl/viewtopic.php?t=18404

"Just snap it through."

"Could be dangerous."

"It's a memory. Of a memory. Of a picture that recorded the memory."

"There's metadata on each of those, though. We can't tell what'll happen if that's lost."

"Some days, I hate the brain."

"Don't say that--you'll scare the patient."

"Not if the anasthesiologist is doing his job."

"I was trying to be funny. No need to bite."

"I'm just stressed. This was supposed to be a cinch."

"Reconstruction is never a cinch."

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah. It's not easy to work with armed guards at the door. I bet they've got the room tapped."

"I think I see something--divert the probe to my controls."

"Steady, there."

"Snapdragons in winter--that's an odd picture."

"No, look at the sun--it's the middle of May. That's some cold snap. We should be able to timestamp from that."

"Unless it's just a reference. That's why I want to snap things simple. Dataloss, sure, but we'll know what we're working with."

"If they think we damaged her, it's our ass."

"If we don't get anything at all, what do you think it is?"

"You ever want to just undo one of those clasps on her jumpsuit and see how much of her image is real?"

"Fucking christ, man!"

"Just kidding. Shit."

"Snap it through."

"You sure?"

"It's our ass, either way. This at least gives us a little bit of hope."

"I suppose you're right. They won't know, anyway. This stuff is complicated."

"Unless we're tapped."

"At which point we tell them the truth."

"But how do we know?"

"We work carefully. We're mind and body experts, right?"

"I do better with a probe in my hand."

"That's what she said."

"Seriously, those jokes are not appropriate."

"Alright. I'm punching through references.

"T minus 10 minutes to gettings some real data to work on."

"She'll never be the same."

"But at least she'll be a human being again."

"True."

"And who knows, maybe some will grow back. It's not like we're writing blanks."

"Also true."

"And somewhere in there, perhaps, we'll figure out how this happened."

"Or why."

"And who."

"That's a pipe dream."

"That's our ass."

"Very true."