Function \\ One

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[And suddenly, there is a Haraken, wearing a set of the by-now-familiar cyberglasses. The only indication that he's alarmed by this situation is the fact that his eyebrows go up. He pauses. Looks around. Pauses again.]

[He lifts up the glasses.] Ah... So it isn't...? [Blink. He resettles his glasses and calls up a set of floating blue screens around himself. Quietly, trailing off as he starts tapping away at the screens:] But it still seems to be functioning...

Comments

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

What other properties does it have?

[lamb_of_gold]

You may come and go from here at a whim, and when you return home, you will find that no time has passed.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

No time? [Frown]

[lamb_of_gold]

None.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[...frowning still.] How do I go back?

[lamb_of_gold]

A thought will bring you home.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Just a thought? I don't have to do anything?

[...]

Are you sure I'm not asleep?

[lamb_of_gold]

Try it.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[And, a few moments later, he disappears!]

[...and then reappears, looking bewildered.]

Ah...

[lamb_of_gold]

You see?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[Nod.]

...

Is your hair that color by itself?

[lamb_of_gold]

Yes?

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Ah... [pause] Do you live here?

[lamb_of_gold]

No, but I spend more time here than I should. I live in Tibet, 1987.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[Assumes that 1987 is a town.] Are there lots of people with purple hair there?

[lamb_of_gold]

No, I'm quite unique in the colour my hair chose to grow.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Are you an alien?

[lamb_of_gold]

Hardly.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Then why are you the only one with hair like that?

[lamb_of_gold]

Because either my mother or father did, I would assume.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

[Hnn.] I guess so.

[lamb_of_gold]

You don't sound convinced.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

Maybe you abducted me.

[lamb_of_gold]

I already said I was not an alien.

[coiledheart.livejournal.com]

But if you were an alien you'd say that.