023 drabble: Portal through time

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Title: University of Pylea Physics Dept.
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 100
Prompt: 023: Portal Through Time
Characters/Pairing (if any): Fred


158 days (159?) since hot showers, computers, public transport, refrigerators and a lot of things she's forgetting.

She's spent years learning stuff, when did it get so hard? She's supposed to be one of those thinkers who advance mankind's knowledge. She can explain Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum mechanics... the other slaves hate her since they keep having to show her how to build a fire, skin a goat, even what leaves to wipe her ass with.

Fred counts the days on fingers whose nails are worn down to the flesh. 159, 160. One more memory gone.

Comments

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Yup! :-) Thanks!

[not-purrrfect.livejournal.com]

Very special.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Poor Fred!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Thanks!

[lauratd.livejournal.com]

Nice job showing the frustration of an expert in a situation were they are not-so-much with the knowledge-having. Her awareness of her memories slipping away is heart-wrenching.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I always figured Fred's ability to "build things" was some sort of therapy to try and re-build a world she could understand - and any theoretic physician trapped in a medieval world is bound to be shook up.

[boy-named-susie.livejournal.com]

Aww, so sad. Great job showing what Fred was back home in order to contrast it to what she had become.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just read a book on theoretical physics (among other things), I guess it seeped in, haha.

[ubiquirk.livejournal.com]

Ah, poor Fred! The difference between quantum theory and survival is very nicely made.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

I love the way that you put in the bit about her knowing all these physics principles but she doesn't know how to survive. Knowing way too many physicists (and even dating one) that have no common sense, totally hit the nail there. This was so sad though. Loved all the little details.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is a great book, but the chapters on theoretical physics just about did my head in, haha. So I had to write about it.

[imbaskinrobbins.livejournal.com]

Poor Fred. She knows so much, and nothing about how to survive. I love the last line.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Love that icon, btw.

[divadea.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouch. Very very nice.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[wereleopard58.livejournal.com]

Wow that kind of hit you about Fred's life especially in such a short amount of words well done

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a bunch (again)! :-)