Eevona Space Command - a Teaser

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I asked, “Ee, why am I so tired? I feel tired.”
Ee said, “Several reasons. One, you aren’t drinking enough. You are significantly dehydrated.”
Michelle handed me the bottle of “stuff” and I drank half the contents that were still there. When I was done, Michelle took the bottle from me and went to refill it.
Ee said, “Secondly, it has been an intense time-ambiguous-period.”
I sat back in the chair and said, “Oh, come on. Can we just use day and night and hours and minutes and stuff? It’s possible, right? We aren’t outside normal space where time is really meaningless, so make it easy on me and make something up.”
Ee said harshly, “Actually, Captain, we are outside normal space where time is meaningless.”
She sounded annoyed at me. I felt rebuked.
I softened my tone and said, “We are? I’m sorry. I didn’t know. I didn’t know how to know. We can do that?”
Ee said, “I shouldn’t have snapped at you, but you shouldn’t have snapped at me either. I tried to tell you. We’re currently suspended in Non-Space. Not moving. Time moves forward and backward, but right now, we are stopped, stationary. No movement. No time.”
Michelle sounded concerned as she rushed back and handed me the bottle and sat forward on the sofa.
She said, “Eevona, how is that possible? Non-Space is a means of traversal, not navigation. Being stationary implies either navigation or deliberate parking. That isn’t a property of Non-Space as far as I understand it.”
Ee said, “Well, maybe not. How many times do I have to say this? I don’t know. I forgot. There was damage. Maybe it doesn’t work this way, but then again, neither do I. And neither do you. Have you ever met a ship who talks like me? Or a man like the Captain? Or a Unit like yourself? Well, the fact that I can’t stop motionless in Non-Space is news to me. I did it because it seemed like the thing to do. So I did it. I popped into Non-Space and didn’t go anywhere. It seemed easier at the time than trying to go somewhere, so I went nowhere. I probably didn’t think it through. Jimmy had just come on board and you were about to expire, so I did what I did and haven’t bothered to change since. We don’t have anywhere to go so I quit going.”