#cptnpike:014

[owedfavors]

⤷ ✧ @cptnpike said, ❝ I know you’re ignoring me, but I’m going to keep talking anyways. ❞

tricorder scans have yet to offer her anything remotely resembling the answers she seeks. still, she pours over them as she keeps one doubtful eye on the fire that crackles, threatening at any moment to leap from its makeshift cage and consume the jungle-like forest that surrounds them. it is not a problem una is eager to add to her current list.

❛ if by ignoring ❜ — she speaks absentmindedly, her attention upon her present work for all she remains aware of his words — ❛ you mean that I am choosing not to engage with this conversation, then, yes, I suppose I am. I fail to see what relevancy the equus genus has in our present circumstances, as not only are we far from earth, but also on a planet that previous surveys indicate is lacking in mammalian life entirely. ❜

and, therefore, lacking anything even remotely resembling a horse. it is a fact for which she will consider herself thoroughly grateful.

❛ however, as it is keeping you occupied, ❜ — and therefore not wandering off — ❛ please, continue. ❜ she might ignore him, might file the words to the back of her mind, letting her readings take precedence, but she does listen.