heart and soul

[soldieronwards]

The ground falls out beneath you. You're in midair, you're surrounded by swirling clouds, and there's nowhere stable to put your feet. The space between your body and the turbulence around you feels poorly defined as well; where do you end and your surroundings begin? Is there a stable you in the first place?

But eventually--

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Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[seasidelove]

[well I look equally unimpressed so.]

I'm trying to help Bucky! Good things shouldn't be set on fire and ruined.

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[soldieronwards]

"Don't be so quick to judge, kid," the hologram says. "We've been using that stuff as fuel for a long time here, and we can't switch over to a different method of power generation so easily now."

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[seasidelove]

I'll stop.

But that doesn't mean that good things should be burned, either. You don't have to change right away, but maybe you should find a different kind of fuel.

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[soldieronwards]

The hologram rolls his one visible eye. "They're just pictures. We can always get more. It's important to keep the engine running."

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[seasidelove]

You can find something else for the future! Don't just make an excuse to keep doing the same thing. I don't want the engine to stop running, but it's probably not a good thing to burn everything that's good. Who cares if it's just pictures! That doesn't make them any less important!

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[soldieronwards]

The hologram squints a little at her. "All right, all right, you're not going to screw with the fuel tank any more, are you?"

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[seasidelove]

[SQUINTS BACK]

Do you promise you'll find something else? I won't forgive you if you break it.

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[soldieronwards]

"Kid, you might have your metaphors all wrong here," says the security system with a sigh. "You haven't figured out what the engine represents, have you?"

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[seasidelove]

[... she pauses, thinking things over—before looking incredibly sheepish because wow she kind of did kneejerk didn't she]

—The good things keep him going? It's just—It's really alarming to see a lot of good things being set on fire!

Re: THE ENGINE ROOM

[soldieronwards]

"It's a little more complicated than that," the hologram admits, "but you might be on the right track there. Just be more careful in the future. You've already broken enough stuff here, got it?"