Posted by Lieutenant Commander Royal Sinclair (Counselor) in Counselor’s Office - A New Kind of Interview (Tag SARAH)

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Counselor’s Office - A New Kind of Interview (Tag SARAH)

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Gazing at him with her almost electric blue eyes, Cori frowned slightly. “I don’t know,” she said softly. It was about as honest an answer she could give. It wasn’t that she hadn’t pondered things from time to time- she endless amounts of it and no need to sleep, after all- but it was simply that she hadn’t pushed herself to think of what might lie ahead. Her life had suddenly seemed to exist in some sort of cloudy free fall. There could be a bottom, but she couldn’t see the ground to know. She knew she missed Jarred, but she couldn’t bring herself to go see him, to intrude on his life where she wasn’t wanted anymore. Whatever he might have said about still being friends, it was clear he had moved on. But where that left her now she wasn’t sure. She did know that right now she wasn’t really sure that she had *anyone, not really.

“I wouldn’t…” Dalton shook her head, gazing off to the side a bit. “I wouldn’t mind getting off the ship sometime. The emitter should be okay as long as I’m careful. Bu it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything but these hulls and the holodeck.” She could go anywhere on the holodeck, but it just wasn’t the same.

~Corinne Dalton

Sinclair didn’t move, his face remained passive. “Anywhere in particular strike your fancy? Or just somewhere… else? Somewhere not here?” he asked. He didn’t know for sure, but he at least suspected that her consciousness was giving the holographic image signals that could be interpreted as body language and facial expressions. He set that aside for the moment, and simply focused his efforts on her words.

Sinclair, CNS

She traced the line of her bottom lip as she pondered his very simple question. Did it matter? Cori wasn’t sure. She had no home- no place to return to that would feel like it anyway- and the Saracen has been as good as one. But how could a place be a home when it was simultaneously a psuedo-prison. She was free, and yet trapped. “Anyway,” she said at length. “Something different. Preferably where people won’t freak out if they realize I’m not exactly made of organic matter anymore, should it be an issue, but I honestly couldn’t care about those details at this point.”

~Corinne Dalton