video;

[deal]

[Cassandra glances over before focusing on her wind up music box, and begins slowly turning the handle. Music starts to play, a tune that may be familiar to people from Earth. She's not doing this to play music for everyone though, so she stops after a handful of seconds, looking thoughtful.]

It's funny. You hate home until you've been gone from it long enough, and then you get homesick and home is all you can think about. No matter how shitty it is, you forget about all of the bad things and only care about the people you left behind.

[The music box is picked up and clinched in her hand.]

Do you think it's possible to get a message back to someone? Has anyone tried communicating outside the ship yet? If things like this - [She drops the music box in her hand on the table she's sitting at.] can come through the Ingress to us, we have to be able to send things back through it.

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[whoami]

But you just admitted it was more for your own peace of mind. And anyway; if we could end up here, there's nothing saying your message wouldn't get through.

[deal]

There isn't. But people have pointed out that it's stupid to get my hopes up.

Anyway, who are you? I'm Cassandra.

[whoami]

Then don't get your hopes up. I say you're coming at it all wrong. Use an anchor. Like an object that might mean something to the person you're trying to reach. Since we don't really get how time works, that one is harder. But I doubt plain paper would survive.

And I'm Sam.

[deal]

All I have to send back is the music box. They'd know it was from me if they saw it, though. There's not any way plain paper would survive, which is why I need to drop the idea for now.

How long have you been here, Sam?

[whoami]

Time gets kind of screwy in space. But I think it's gonna be 4 months soon?