IV

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

I've been so busy with classes, that I've hardly been able to post.

Even after being here for six months, I can't seem to find a good cup of tea; or even a good place to buy decent meat. The air is still stale as it's filtered and re-filtered into this metallic habitat. It wouldn't be so bad if I was able to find some good tea, or even a good glass of wine.

Even if we all bred I can't fathom what they'd do with all of us. Hum, perhaps they're breeding us for food.

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[honorarily.livejournal.com]

I don't think we'd make very good food, Sifu.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

My, you don't think so? They could at least produce decent wine, then.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

For food?? Are you sure about that?

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Do you not find it possible?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

It's just not exactly, uh, an appetizing thought, I guess. It kind of reminds me of this movie I saw when I was a kid.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

It's not entirely impossible. Perhaps human meat is a delicacy here.

Oh? What movie was that?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

Ever heard of Soylent Green?

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Not for a very, very, very long time.

Do you think we'll become soylent green?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

I sure hope not. I still get queasy when I hear about "soy".

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Oh really?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even now. If this is like Soylent Green, I don't think I'd be a very good Charlton Heston.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

No, I can't see you surrounded by a cast of apes.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

Hey, wasn't there a scene in that movie where the apes threw two humans in a cage and told them to breed...?

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Do you think there are apes outside this dome?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

More like it's being run by them.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

So there are apes outside the dome and we're being bred for food. Fascinating. I still don't have a good glass of wine.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

Boy, I could use one now, too.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'll have to make my own. Is your friend a wine connoisseur? He fits the description well.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't know. There are still a lot of things I don't know about him.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

I thought you were close with him.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

I don't know if "close" is the word.

No matter what he says, we are friends, though.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, you don't seem like the type he'd be friends with. After all, he's certainly refined, and quite the gentleman. He has a way with words, as well.

But it's good that you have friends.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

...I guess you could put it that way.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should ask him. You have quite the chance now.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

I guess if it comes up.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

You're not going to take the initiative?

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

It's a little hard to explain.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

I see. I'm sure he'll come around.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

He doesn't need to come around to anything! Really. I mean, we're just friends. And kind of rivals. And one time I had to defend him against murder charges.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

You'll have to come tell me the story over a glass of mediocre wine.

[billofwrights.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan. I'll see you later tonight.

[logicandhonor.livejournal.com]

...For food...

Hmm.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

You're contemplating the idea?

[logicandhonor.livejournal.com]

While it does not strike me as logical, there may be those who could benefit from such an arrangement.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

As in the apes wandering outside the dome?

[logicandhonor.livejournal.com]

Apes?

I was not aware that sentient life could survive outside the dome...

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

It's shocking, really.

[changings.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I don't think people'd take well to cannibalism.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Not for us, really, for the ones controlling this dome.

[changings.livejournal.com]

You think they eat people? I think they'd've done something easier than setting us up in the apartments, unless we're the equivalent of free-range chicken.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

Organic?

[changings.livejournal.com]

Grain-fed? Yeah, I don't know, I'm not really up with the regimes of sinister government organisations.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to tell you if something suspicious rears its ugly head, Mr. Black.

[changings.livejournal.com]

As long as you tell me before I end up in the mincer, that'd be great.

[qinglongweiji.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to.