Onboard the Heart of Gold
Aug. 10th, 2005 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onehoopyprefectHe lied.
He didn't go to sleep after leaving everyone on the bridge.
In fact, he didn't even go back to his room.
He just wandered the corridors of the ship, aimlessly, for hours, avoiding everyone.
Only now is he finally returning to his quarters, mentally and physically exhausted.
"Door?" he whispers to the door to his room.
"Yes?" comes the mechanical reply.
"I have had a zarking bad night, so when I step forward for you to open, I want you to say absolutely nothing. If you do, I swear, I will have you shut down, removed, junked, ground into little bits, and recycled as chaff. Do you understand?"
And somewhere, in the deepest depths of the computer's programming, it did. The door slid open without a peep.
He didn't go to sleep after leaving everyone on the bridge.
In fact, he didn't even go back to his room.
He just wandered the corridors of the ship, aimlessly, for hours, avoiding everyone.
Only now is he finally returning to his quarters, mentally and physically exhausted.
"Door?" he whispers to the door to his room.
"Yes?" comes the mechanical reply.
"I have had a zarking bad night, so when I step forward for you to open, I want you to say absolutely nothing. If you do, I swear, I will have you shut down, removed, junked, ground into little bits, and recycled as chaff. Do you understand?"
And somewhere, in the deepest depths of the computer's programming, it did. The door slid open without a peep.
