[HG-PBEM] Re: Tina Checking out....
- From: "Dennis D. Kirkpatrick" <dkirkpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: apaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:12:17 -0600
On 14 Aug 2003, at 19:51, Robb Neumann wrote:
> "We are co-workers," Tina replied. "And, we share living quarters in
> our team's compound."
>
> Over the last few weeks with the Redliners, Tina had grown somewhat
> fond of her roommates, but at the moment, she felt uncomfortable. It
> was far easier to spread that discomfort to the doctor and medical
> staff, than it was to confide in them. Displays of emotion wasn't what
> she had been programmed for, and although it was possible for her to
> learn to like others, to show appreciation for them, it wasn't a part
> of the instinctual hard-wiring that had been used to create her and her
> "sisters."
>
> Quietly, silently, she resented the way her mind worked, the way her
> thought processes had been predetermined, even predestined, but there
> was nothing she could do to change it. Nor was there anything she
> could say that would explain her unique, somewhat limited, emotional
> state. In many ways, she was human, but in situations like this one,
> she felt far, far more alien.
The Doctor flagged the nurse, gesturing that the visitors could
enter. Turning to Tina, Lania asked, "Did you need me to leave or
were there other things that you'd like me to scan for?" She
gestured toward the hologram. We can drill down and view things
on the cellular level if you wish."
[...]
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Dennis D. Kirkpatrick
Littleton, CO USA
dkirkpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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