leftinbasketforfbi | 3rd Study Done Β Video/Action for Mio Ψ

[He doesn't like going on the network. Like, he really doesn't like going on the network. Unfortunately, he has to move past it right now because SCIENCE and also his munna is sick.

So when the feed starts, Reid (who is wearing HUGE glasses today) is sitting with his back against a tree, taking a break from all the traveling with Mio. Yang the Absol is curled up next to Reid's leg, staring at the communicator. In Reid's arms is the most sad-looking munna ever, and its face looked a little green. It's a sick, sad munna.]

Um, hi?

[Reid cradles Flora the munna carefully, readjusting the glasses on his nose.] Right. Uh, for those of you who don't know, I'm Dr. Spencer Reid. Not that--you don't have to call me that. Spencer or Reid will work fine.

[As you can probably tell, Reid is not good at talking to lots of strangers.]

It's come to my attention that no one's ever formally gathered data about arrivals and departures from this place, and in hopes of finding a pattern that could lead us to being able to better predict who might come and go, I put together a survey. The more people who contribute, the more useful the results will be, so any spare moment you could use to fill it out would be appreciated.

[He switches to text briefly to provide a link to the survey.]

This, um... isn't exactly my realm of expertise? That is, my specialty is largely theoretical and practical applications of knowledge, not setting up studies, and without any kind of possible beta testing, this study isn't exactly what I would call formal. So really, any suggestions on how to improve it or any help from people experienced with correlational studies would be helpful.

On a more personal note...

[He glances down, his glasses hiding his eyes, and he shifts so the munna is more visible on the screen. The poor thing looks utterly pathetic--she's not even hovering.]

Flora has been very sick since she hatched. Does anyone know what might be wrong with her?

[She'll tell you what's wrong with her. She's living off a steady diet of nothing but sleep terrors and nightmares. Reid, you really should see someone about that.]

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Twilight, in the last two weeks, I've dealt with a fully sapient goat-like creature that should not flourish in daylight yet manages to do so, small man-made spheres that can comfortably contain fully grown animals, a floating psychic piglet who will apparently be able to talk to me in my thoughts in a while, a girl with pink hair who can talk with animals, a whole world that does not follow any kind of traditional rule of economy, medicine, or governance and still functions perfectly...

At this point, I'll believe anything. It's either all true... or I'm going to wake up in a mental institution. I'm hoping the former, to be honest. [He's sort of resigned to everything being upside down, he'll admit.]

You're not insane.

[It's an automatic response to his last statement, and she pauses a bit after saying it, recalling that in all honesty, it's not something she can prove to him, and she never will be able to. But dang it, she doesn't want her new friend to be questioning his sanity.]

Actually, the reason I didn't say anything about it to you earlier is because I was a little worried you'd question my grip on reality if I did. It's... nice to hear someone take the revelation so well.

I can't know that for sure.

[New friend. He likes that. Friend.

But seriously, the man's grown up with the constant fear of schizophrenia looming over his head. It'd make sense, really. Those migraines he's been having? The ones with no external cause? Tactile hallucinations, just as he feared. Now his illness has just progressed, and he's seeing and hearing things that aren't there.

He chews his lip. He doesn't want to think about it. He doesn't want to think about it, but he can't help it.]

It's probably best that you didn't, at least on my first day. I wasn't really at my best. [Understatement of the century.] And, well, once you accept Pokemon, accepting that someone is a unicorn-turned-human doesn't seem like a big thing.

I realize that. But even if you can't know for certain, I just want you to believe it.

[And that's... honestly all she can really say on the subject. This isn't her area of expertise, and she knows it, and the last thing she wants is to make things even worse for him by saying the wrong thing. So unless he says something else that she feels she has to respond to, she's essentially promising herself to stay quiet on that subject, at least for now.]

You know, that was sort of my line of thought about hairless great apes that are advanced enough to have this level of technology and intellect. And about myself being turned into one, for that matter. It's strange but... probably not the weirdest thing we're going to run into here.

[Reid nods, but he doesn't want to talk any more about it. Maybe the issue will come up again in the future, but he's going to try to not think about it now.

But at the 'hairless great apes' line, he has to smile.] Yeah, I think I would have a similar thought process if I had ended up in your world and turned into a unicorn. [Oh God. He thought he was uncoordinated with two legs...] Where I come from, unicorns and pegasi don't even exist except for in stories.

Well you've got me beaten there. We don't even have stories about humans in my world. I guess I'm lucky to at least have had a decent analogue to compare to.

Not that it helped me figure out how to walk on two legs... [Seriously, it was a good thing she had the other ponies to help her at first, or she would've overthought the whole thing hard enough to fall on her face every other step.]

There are a lot of stories with a lot of variation, so one of these days, I'll ask about how much from your world matches. [Not only would he just be interested to hear about whether or not unicorns can purify water and only tolerate virgins, but if the stories match up enough, then... well, that carries a lot of implications.]

Oh, I don't doubt it. I know I would have taken... well, it would have taken me a while to figure out two extra legs. [He would have looked even more like Bambi than he already does.] How are you doing in the new body now? I'm guessing better, since you seem to be able to walk fine.

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