My grip on Emi's hand is just as tight, just as fearful. We breathe together, calming.
Distantly, it occurs to me that we are having this conversation in a doorway.
"Duration of effects is as long as the physical separation remains, plus additional recovery time penalty, which is theorized increases exponentially for each unit of time or distance for which we are separated."
I swallow, looking up - I was looking at the floor, too, without really meaning to. Moments like this, we are truly as one person in two parts.
"I regret that we don't have further information than this. Commander Kuroki was...alarmed, and dissuaded extensive testing."
It is hard to blame him for this. I am told they initially feared our hearts would stop, or had stopped, when we fell suddenly and immediately to the floor of the testing room.
"Like puppets with your strings cut," Youko had told us later.
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Date: 2013-02-24 05:24 am (UTC)Distantly, it occurs to me that we are having this conversation in a doorway.
"Duration of effects is as long as the physical separation remains, plus additional recovery time penalty, which is theorized increases exponentially for each unit of time or distance for which we are separated."
I swallow, looking up - I was looking at the floor, too, without really meaning to. Moments like this, we are truly as one person in two parts.
"I regret that we don't have further information than this. Commander Kuroki was...alarmed, and dissuaded extensive testing."
It is hard to blame him for this. I am told they initially feared our hearts would stop, or had stopped, when we fell suddenly and immediately to the floor of the testing room.
"Like puppets with your strings cut," Youko had told us later.