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Good evening, Voidtreckers. I'd like to announce a council meeting in three days. It's overdue and I believe we have a number of items to discuss.

Please council members take some time over the next few days to come up with and notify me of topics we need to discuss so I can prepare an agenda. If anyone who is not a council member feels strongly about a certain topic we should consider, either tell me or seek out a council member so they may relay the information.

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We'll do whatever else we can, too; this place is constantly changing.

[The people present most of all.

The tangent does take Nita by surprise, but she can sort of understand how Alice got there. Though-]

'Fraid not, no. But sound is a lot richer for them than it is for us; their skin is what they use for ears, really, so voices have a lot more texture for whales and dolphins than our voices sound to them.

Can we do anything to change it? The train, I mean.

Goodness! Imagine if all of your skin could hear... I suppose yours can when you are one.

Is it very pretty, the sound? Or is it harsh to the skin?

Well, we've been able to paint on the walls and have it stay up, if you mean change in general.

We've also got someone who's been able to modify the ICPs; my sister's been helping him make writing a permanent feature for them.

[Since 'writing' is more straightforward than 'text' anyway.

Nita smiles, a touch nostalgic, only for something far more recent.]

That's the thing; everything sounds different down there. Some creatures' voices are soft - some voices can feel nervous, or fuzzy, or even twitchy!

[Like a kind of synesthesia.]

Oh ah, yes, I'm very slow when it comes to typing.

What did I sound like, then?

[Nita doesn't have to think much to answer this question:]

Flat. Like there was less of an echo.

[Then, slightly flushed, since she knows how that sounds:]

You don't sound like that now, though! It's as much a species thing as it is being in the water.

Oh...

Um, well, I suppose that's... fair. But... well, that's alright. I've been told much worse about my voice.

[Nita winces.]

Yeah, I've heard worse insults, too.

[Not that Joanne and her lot had known whales could speak, back in those bad old days.]

... Was there anything else you wanted to know, though? I'm fine explaining things, and I assure you you're not bothering me!

[She smiles again, genuine.]

There's really so much to ask about. I'm still... trying to understand everything but I don't... the questions come when they come, I don't write them down. Could I... could I call on you later if I remember them?

[Nita nods.]

Of course!

And I can usually be found in the Greenhouse or the Standard carriage, if I'm not in cabin 4-B.

[Because Alice deserves to have her questions answered.]

The Greenhouse... that's where the flowers ACTUALLY are, correct, not the garden? Could renaming that be brought up in the meeting, please?

[Nita nods.]

Yes - and yes, I'll mention it.

[Hopefully sooner than later...]

I don't know if we can relabel the train-provided names, especially those on the Network, but we can tape over any physical labels for sure.

Thank you, Miss Nita. I'm still trying to understand things about this place.

Well, the train may provide the names but it is as you say, why can't we tape over it. Why can't we decide things since we live here?

[That brings a smile to Nita's face.]

Never stop questioning those kinds of things, Alice. It's a real good skillset. Reminding ourselves that we can take action saves us from all sorts of problems...

[Even if it also puts them in the prime path to encounter new ones.]

Then, you would be one of the few to think that. Most people find I ask too many questions.

[Nita makes a wry face.]

Most people don't like answering questions, especially when their minds are on other things.

That is not your fault, though. Don't change.

Hopefully, then, I can become better at asking questions when their minds are on me and not other matters to upset them less. I don't much care for answering questions when I'm upset either.

Well, but I have to. I was a different person than I was yesterday and I shall be a different person again by tomorrow, never mind the different I shall be when I grow up.

[And from wry back to just happy, Nita nods.]

You're right, there.

How about - just don't forget to ask questions?

Well, that should certainly be easy to remember! I shall not forget such a thing, Miss Nita, I assure you.

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[Video] Alice is going to have many questions for S'reee. XD

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