Alice looked stunned and sat bolt upright in her chair.<br/><br/>"You can<em>Sense </em>a goauld ? if they are Tokra too ? Wow, forgive the implications but we should clone you ! or at least make devices that can do the same"<br/><br/><br/>Velnze scratched her nose.<br/><br/>"Frankly Lieutenant it may be best that is kept a secret. For it is a general's job to put you in a lab trying to replicate your abilities despite your protests, they may not like doing it, it may violate a string of laws, but the consequence of not doing it for the human race would justify the means, it would be an order I would agree to carry out. Why ? The gauld have successfully enslaved all races without exception, the only hope we have, ones who are technologically inferior would be to exploit every ace against them."<br/><br/>Alice looked at the lieutenant and for a moment Sarah saw eyes that may well have been a snake's, before her pupils dilated again.<br/><br/>"The last commander likely did not report as such otherwise you wouldn't be here, you would be subjected to whatever intrusive experiments could ensure results. His must have liked you a lot, I bet that decision is something he thinks of every day. However because you have stated so in confidence, because you have stated your trust in me I will honour it until the eleventh hour, please free me from restraint however lieutenant and do inform the major personally, with such secrets as these assume nothing of how others manage it.<br/><br/>The issue of trust raises a few things in me, the gaold do not trust each other, constantly watching their backs so quick to knife them. Trust is a declaration of hope of faith in your fellow human. Trust, hope, desire for others to be happy, to share exploring new fields with them is magnificent. Any race that shares a fraction of this I beleive humanity should dare reach its hand towards."<br/><br/>The Captain noticed a glass of water and a jug on the officers desk and without asking helped her self to one. After downing it Alice relaxed in her chair.<br/><br/>"I often find voicing interpretation of a fact in the way my perspective would juggle it frees me from thinking about it again. Being suspected as insane liberates the need to be consistent, and frees up options that pride in being so would prevent"<br/><br/>"I don't ever wonder how another thinks. I feel its reasonably safe to assume everyone thinks like me but they just have different intentions. If they show insane behavior it tells me I would be like that if I had to juggle what they are nothing more. Any action of theirs that seems out of character to me is a sign they are choosing to juggle different things.<br/><br/>To me in order to know someone you only need to know six things"<br/><br/><br/>"One - What they want<br/>Two - How far they are from getting it<br/>Three - How likely they think they will succeed<br/>Four - what they want to protect doing so<br/>Five - What they are prepared to loose<br/>Six - what they feel they have already lost from their desire of it<br/><br/>Once you know those things, knowing their priorities and behavior falls out usually. Deducing these things from actions is harder, and something minds like yours seem taken by, an ability I do admire but have little inclination to develop personally"<br/><br/>Velnze stood and paced towards the doorway before turning about seemingly second guessing herself<br/><br/>(http://www.grupo-utopia.com/blog/isou/Sexy/Charlize-Theron-AeonFlux.jpg)<br/><br/>"I have outlets, knowing gives me rest, control gives me rest, ironically gaining them is exhausting. Others not sharing my values often frustrates me, during such I listen to electronic trance music while watching photos from the hubble space telescope ... imagining us in space ships while ... enjoying a spliff, and a straight scotch on the rocks. A bit of the English in me coming out I guess.<br/><br/>If with friend who is happy not to judge ... but joins me where we occasionally share imaginings of colonizing the stars, the things we would find, one who is happy for an hour or two to pass without speech ... well yes ... all very well and good but trying to get spliffs into this place isn't so easy.<br/><br/>The Major likely could permit it for me but I am not sure how much I can push my luck with her, I have tried pushing my luck with high brass before and well .. if they don't humor it they have some nasty options that complicate matters.<br/><br/>For me there are other means to relax however, some more carnal though, ones that do require another with comparable needs, a combination of all seems the most appealing.<br/><br/>Hmm interesting question, perhaps that answer is how i keep my onion layers together, it could explain a person better than the method I use. What about you lieutenant ?<br/>What keeps you balanced in this world fill of insanity? "<br/>