30 Day OTP Challenge, day 5: Kissing
Nov. 25th, 2012 02:08 pm“Remind me why we’re here again?”
“Privacy.”
A rather prolonged silence. Then: “…Yeah.”
“I mean, you did say…”
“I did.”
“Be hard to get much more private than this.” A point it would have been hard to refute, as they are sitting on a lone nickel-iron asteroid floating in utter darkness, and the nearest other matter was literally millions of lightyears away.
“Uh, yeah. How many universes over?”
“I didn’t ask. I mean, the transport subsidy is unlimited until the Invitational’s over…”
“A lot of energy to be spending…”
“Yeah. But all the small print said was ‘Don’t waste it.’ I don’t think this is wasted. And it’s the user’s call.”
Another brief silence.
“And anyway, it’s not like we did it in actual distance. We’re right where Earth would be. This is just a much smaller continuum. That’s this whole inhabited universe, up there.”
“No wonder it’s a little on the dim side.”
“Yeah, well, these are the cheap seats.”