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[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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[anarchos]

[He matches her stare evenly, almost expectantly. Like he's had this sort of exchange before - and he has. So when he wins out and she smiles, he hunches over a little more relaxed.]

[Dryly:] Tell me about it. Not sure if splitting already small rations or finding my own food left me hungrier.

[Definitely the rations, but he's trying to be sarcastically empathetic ok.] But I'm guessing you didn't want to talk about our shitty worlds here.

[deal]

I figure we'd both be happier not talking about them unless we have to.

[She gives him a knowing look, taking more food off of his plate.]

I was thinking we could break into the Ingress, and see if there's any way to operate it in reverse. We could try going through it to see where we end up, or see if we can send something back through it. Even if it doesn't work, at least we're trying something.

[anarchos]

[He lifts his glass of water and tips it towards her in agreement.]

[But then she starts talking about her plan, and any talk about their old lives is pushed to the wayside. Bellamy frowns, not in disapproval, just thought.]

It's not a bad idea in theory. It's how we got here, it could be a way out too. But we'd need to figure more about how the Ingress itself works first. [Oh to have Raven with them now.] And objects before people, if or when it comes to that.

[deal]

Obviously.

[She rolls her eyes, saying it as if an older sibling has just told her what to do when she already knew what to do. It's all in good spirit though, because she's still slightly smiling as she does it.]

How would we even know if we managed to get it right, though? Those things we got brought onto the ship, the captains have to have some kind of idea about us and where we come from. Some of the things people got were too personal and secret.

[anarchos]

[The eyerolling is familiar enough to be amusing, and he doesn't seem bothered by it in the slightest. If anything, he almost looks like he might smile too - but not quite.]

If I had an answer for any of that, we wouldn't need to research the Ingress in the first place. It's worth keeping an eye out in case someone else was already poking around. Might be a jumpstart.

[deal]

That's the thing. I don't think anyone else is bothering to do anything. People are just...settling in here.

[She can understand why they are, but the fact still remains that no one else is trying anything and that frustrates her.]

I've already had a few people lecture me on making the most out of being here. They're pushing the forget what I left behind to start over thing pretty strong.

[Frowning deeply, she picks at the food she's taken from him and puts it back on his plate. ]