I am sooo with you!
(can we? please??)
... I had grand ideas of a serious drama set in a prison, but no. So here is something completely different.
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Keyboard Smash
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”What is it, though?"
”Thomson's head was found lying on the keyboard. They never found the rest of him. Ship control room's been cleaned up now of course."
”It's a message, I'm sure of it."
”How d'you work that one out?"
”Well look. There are words in there. I see the word ‘fire'. And gkogga is a Centauran word for... danger, I think. It's a warning!"
”Don't be ridiculous."
”And there's agora! And dog! And group!"
”Learn spelling sometime, that's ‘groop'."
”He was scared for his life! He wasn't concerned with the correct spelling!"
”Reaaally. Do you know what everyone is thinking, or just the mad dead ones?"
”Don't switch it off! You idiot! If we all die, it's your fault."
”Sure, whatever. If it's a message, he was channelling someone totally unhinged, who I'd rather not listen to anyway."
”I'm totally putting in a transfer when we get back to Mars, you're impossible. Wait. What's that?"
”Eh? Oh, ship's mascot. Name of Chihuahua according to the logs. Picked up somewhere out in New Cygnus. Only survivor."
”Why is it following us?"
”It's what they do."
”Why is it showing us its teeth?"
”It's what they do."
”Why are its eyes glowing red?"
”It's what-"