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[ The first sound out of the comm was a suspicious thump thump thump. Someone’s testing to see if it’s on, maybe? After that, someone whistles what sounds like the acknowledging warble a computer might make. After that is a long, tense pause, followed by a grunt. The audio flicks off, but typing starts after a few more moments. ]

Gunney? Dare?

[ Another long pause before the typing continues. ]

This isn’t New Mombasa. This probably isn’t even Earth, is it? Where am I?

[ More importantly, where are his guns?!]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
"Squadmates?"

[This is relevant to the Major's interests.]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
I see.

I'm sorry.

[He's not in a position to appreciate how extraordinary getting sympathy from Kusanagi is, but maybe he'll look back in surprise one of these days.]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
Still. That's a bad time to get taken.

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
[She laughs, not that he can hear it.]

Everyone calls me the Major.

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
I am in fact a Major in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force.

[They don't get to call it an "army" because of Article 9.]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
I suspect things have changed between my time and yours.

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
2029. It would be 2030 by now.

[Well, if he gave her his frequency, they could talk on her cybercomm.]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
Outlier. Most of the people from Earth are clustered in the early 21st century--a knot around 2008, actually.

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
Not where I'm from. There wasn't even an active war that year.

[They never even existed in Ghost in the Shell.]

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 05:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
None of us know why the people who arrive do, and the crew won't give a straight answer.

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
There's next to nothing here that qualifies as "good."

[text]

Date: 2009-11-29 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electroniccrane.livejournal.com
If you like.

Food is on Deck 4.

[This Rookie person is probably a biological, right?]
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