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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5358598" data-attributes="member: 2710">Brian ShaughnessyBrian found himself oddly appreciative of Deezy's ramblings, even if he only understood about half of what she was talking about. For one thing, it reminded him that he wasn't stuck inside this great metal sheath all alone, and that the person who could get him out of it was alive and alert. For another, the rather impressive ability of the diminutive mechanic to speak for so long without apparently breathing covered for how difficult Brian was finding it to breathe, himself. He wasn't claustrophobic per se, but he was characteristically nervous in proximity to things clearly designed to hunt down and destroy ... well, it might not be made just for someone like him, but it reminded him of the human talent for violence. He spent most of the jaunt to the plaza centering himself; he couldn't read the displays, but he knew Deezy could, and if the temperature control systems suddenly started fighting against an unknown hot or cold spike, an imaginative genius used to improvisation and unconventional thinking might not find it as hard to pin down the alien factor as other folks did. So he kept quiet, controlled, and tried to acclimate to the ride he'd hitched. It didn't sound like it would be an especially short journey.</blockquote>