Aly among space debris
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"Three days."

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So nobody has gotten around to [teaching you how to use the thing] yet, huh?

I could [demonstrate the use of the thing] in [a way that you could see easily] if me [accessing more directly] your interface wouldn't [make you excessively uncomfortable]?

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"Uh. What would you do?"

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I would demonstrate [the things you are capable of doing] with your interface by attaining [temporary full access] to your interface and then doing [the things you are capable of doing] in a manner that is [slow and well-explained enough for you to follow].

You could just wait for [proper noun designating my sister] or one of the other doctors to get around to it, [if you prefer].

I'm just a pilot with a neurological disorder after all. I definitely don't have a medical degree.

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"Can people do that if I don't let them?"

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[Brief negative response].

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"Good."

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"Can you tell me about the things you would show me?"

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Veda lowers herself back onto the bed.

 

You would see a [moving image] in your field of view that designates [where my eyes are looking] and that flashes when I blink. I would move my eyes and blink in order to do [the things you are capable of doing].

Alternately, I could go back to sleep. I don't [possess a strong preference].

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"I mean can you tell me what things I could do by blinking."

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A list of [the things you are capable of doing] includes [toggling functions on/off], [sending messages] to [other persons], or even [adding new functions] by copying them from [somewhere else].

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"...huh. Thank you." She doesn't think this person is good enough at explaining to want to give her scary accesses so as to allow more explanation, but there's no harm in thanking her.

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[Expression of happiness-to-lend-small-aid].

 

 

 

 

[Generic statement of polite well-wishing].

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"...Bye," says Aly, and she lets herself out and resumes exploring.

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She can access a couple dozen rooms via three interconnected hallways before running into impassible bulkheads in either direction.

Most of these rooms look to be like the three she's already visited: either quarters or operating rooms or meeting rooms. There's also a few bathrooms, a closet full of cleaning supplies, and a small eatery.

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Can she eat at the eatery?

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She can!

The food is packaged in some pretty weird ways, admittedly, but it's all hypothetically accessible?

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She will pick at the packaging till she figures it out.

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And her reward for this effort is food!

It comes in a lot of forms, most of them gooey or hard but none of them wet or flaky.

A passing orderly pauses in the doorway of the eatery as Aly plunders its contents, seems to consider saying something but at length just shakes her head and keeps walking.

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Hopefully she isn't violating some kind of norm. She finishes her food and discards the packaging wherever that seems to belong and goes back to her room to work on language study some more.

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There is a tray of food waiting for her.

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She only snacked in the eatery, she will have this too. Napkin messages?

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Yup!

"It will allow us to speak privately."

(There's a second line to the message that seems to have been meant to say "without having to write everything out on napkins" but the line gets cut off by the edge of the napkin and the letters get smooshed smaller rapidly so as to become nearly illegible.)

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I don't know who you are Aly writes.

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