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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:04:53 GMT -8
Professor Cornwall,
Thank you for your kind words last night. I truly appreciate your concern for me. I’m not a fighter, and I’m not brave. I’m a scientist. I will not leave you unless you want me to go. That said, I’m afraid, not for myself, but I’m afraid that if I’m here with you I will distract you at a critical time, or that you will be more concerned about me than about the important things that you’re doing. I couldn’t stand that. I think I should be somewhere where you don’t have to worry about me, and where I can do you and your friends the most good.
Ophelia
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:05:30 GMT -8
Ophelia,
I would not have approached you with this choice if I were not prepared for your decision either way. I am both relieved and disappointed. I am much relieved to know that you will be safe and sound, but it was a certainty that our collaborative efforts would produce some significant scientific advances. None the less, I appreciate your decision to distance yourself from me, at least for the time being. I hope that we may correspond with each other in some way to share ideas and inspiration and perhaps some time in the future, when my situation cools, we can work together again. I have put a list together of other members of the staff that may be of help to you in your graduate work, although none of them seem to share your singular genius when it comes to creative solutions. None the less, they have much to teach you and vice versa. I wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors.
Regards, Professor Edison Cornwall Research Fellow Imperial College, London
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:06:31 GMT -8
Professor,
I do not wish to distance myself from you professor. Quite the contrary. But I do not wish to be the source of distraction for you when you are engaged in such important matters. I will not absent myself from you only keep myself out of the way of the fighting. I have something for you, and your companions. I made these for each of you. (In the box with the note are six communications devices, think secure sat phone. With headsets and visual interface). These will help you when you’re in a fight. Also, the one with the E on it has a separate secure channel direct to me. I stand ready to help you in any way you need.
Also, I am enclosing something for you alone, hopefully you will like it. (Also enclosed is a very intricate chain with a quantum gravity symbol entwined within a heart shaped locket. On the back it says, “You are my singularity.”
-O
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:07:35 GMT -8
Ophelia,
In the near future it may be necessary for me to take action to ensure my personal safety against villains who may wish to harm or even kill me and my companions. The only turn of luck in this situation that I can determine is that I have lived a solitary lifestyle which has removed the possibility of one of my loved ones being used to manipulate or coerce me. Although, I am happy to remain your mentor and (more to the actual truth) colleague I am afraid that even in an ancillary or support role, you may be put at risk. You and I can work diligently to mitigate this possibility, but my enemies are unknown and also quite potent. These concerns aside, it is my most sincere wish to continue to work with you on scientific research and on the advancement of our individual careers in academia.
The communication devices you have fashioned will be extremely useful and it is quite heartening to know that I am able to reach out to you for support easily. The fact that they are discrete is also an advantage. You also seem to have a talent for engineering, one that might come in very handy with a project I am working on. The communications devices might integrate well into the suits.
As to the other item. I am very sorry, but I cannot accept this. It is far too familiar and in accepting it I feel I would be leading you on in some respect. That being said I want to make some personal philosophy clear. What people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. My parents did it, an overwhelming majority do. Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on science. Truth is eternal and in its pursuit so shall our fellowship be.
Regards, Prof. Edison Cornwall Research Fellow Imperial College
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:08:08 GMT -8
My Dear Professor,
Such a dear man you are, so wise, so caring, and such an utter fool sometimes, which if I am to be completely honest is part of your charm. You cannot lead me on, for I know well how guarded your heart is. Love is much more than a chemical reaction, true love is a process, a series of little events, moments in the quantum of time in which we make decisions. Many people fail at these decisions because they are lead by emotion and fear, and while I welcome the emotions that you stir in my breast, I am not governed by them, nor am I governed by fear. Do I love you? Perhaps, perhaps it is simply that in you I finally see someone with whom I can share more than emotion, someone with whom I can share the joys of our minds working together. It is not an event, not a reaction, but a path, one that perhaps we can try to walk together, mind in mind, hand in hand, or heart in heart as the moment might deem necessary.
Truth is eternal, and truth is more than mind, for we are more than minds. We are hearts, and bodies as well.
Perhaps it is just my romantic girlish nature.
I ask no more than you are willing to give. Please keep the locket, if only as a token, that someone somewhere is thinking of you and wishes you well.
Always, Ophelia Wilson
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 14:12:02 GMT -8
Edison contemplates the locket. He reaches for his desk drawer and opens it. He is about to place it in the back of the drawer but hesitates. He lets out a long sigh, puts the locket in his breast pocket and closes the drawer. He shuts down the computer screen which was the only source of light in the apartment and turns on a lamp. Phineas "Corky" MacGuillicutty LeFleur looks up at Edison with big soulful eyes.
"Ahh, my dear friend. What am I ever going to do with you?" Edison leans down to pet the pooch.
"How would you like to stay with a nice young lady for a while?", Edison asks the dog, not expecting a response. Phineas cocks his head and gives a yip.
With a smile, Edison says, "I thought so."
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Post by aabria on Sept 25, 2018 14:40:35 GMT -8
THESE. FUCKING. DUDES.
C'mon! *throws laptop*
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Post by Kimi on Sept 25, 2018 14:45:39 GMT -8
THESE. FUCKING. DUDES. C'mon! *throws laptop* RIGHT??? WTH!?!? lol Colleen is just going to emotion bomb the shit out of all of you to make you guys wake up! (kidding)
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Post by akavidar on Sept 25, 2018 16:11:53 GMT -8
Psst, are you certain the Professor isn't talking to himself?
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Post by aabria on Sept 25, 2018 17:47:39 GMT -8
THESE. FUCKING. DUDES. C'mon! *throws laptop* RIGHT??? WTH!?!? lol Colleen is just going to emotion bomb the shit out of all of you to make you guys wake up! (kidding) I mean, but why exactly are you kidding?! Also akavidar - it would be AMAZING if all of this was just in Edison's head. Very Tyler Durden.
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Post by plusx2a on Sept 25, 2018 18:08:37 GMT -8
Psst, are you certain the Professor isn't talking to himself? It usually is, but JiB spoke for Ophelia on this one.
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Post by akavidar on Sept 25, 2018 18:43:04 GMT -8
Psst, are you certain the Professor isn't talking to himself? It usually is, but JiB spoke for Ophelia on this one. That doesn't necessarily rule it out.
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