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[cargojet]

It coulda been months, you're right. And honestly the last thing I expect is to find an active signal. Comms that aren't being used are as a matter of course gone when we wake up after the jump. We never find the devices. Hell, there's hundreds of closed lockers in the medbay who knows what's inside them.

[ A question he puzzled twice a month without fail, without actually daring to try and do anything about it. ]

Something new. You sure know how to reassure a guy. But you're right, it wouldn't fit the pattern. Did I mention I don't like there being a pattern?

[ryuuzaki]

[This is usually where L would get waspish -- Nathan would be aware of it -- but he doesn't.]

You don't have to mention it. It still helps to recognize it, however. Doesn't mean it won't, [a brief pause] it won't ever break from the pattern. If it does, that's information too. What it means, I can't say.

Have you ever noticed how the number of days between jumps creates the illusion of a regular calendar, but the number of days passing within the jump itself makes it impossible to draw any real conclusions from that information? It might be July, it might not be... we only know that there were 28 days between jumps five months ago and the "right" number of days since then, but that doesn't mean there won't be 28 days this time.

[He sounds tired, and he's aware that he's rambling; he allows that thought to trail off awkwardly before he continues with his message.]

In any case, has anyone ever tried to get into a decommissioned locker? I wonder if the lockers themselves are kept under some kind of stasis condition during the jumps, maybe something to do with the air.