Day and Night

Drink! Drink!
nothing special here
no ginger beer
no EVERCLEAR!!

One big billboard here
one big billboard there
Two eyes on it, stare
into nowhere


Dialogue in screen behind.


Seven days? It feels like seven weeks. Why cant I see the others?
Different time schedules, different places in the ship.

Yeah, not in sick bay. None of them have come to me?

You are the first to suspect you sleep longer than eight hours.

Yes. I am not entirely asleep. How else would I stay in such shape.

However, sneaking in was part of the deal.

Yes, but, it was three generations ago that you made that deal.

I have been socializing all this time with robots?

Yes.

Am I still asleep?

Yes.

What will I not remember?

This conversation. That I am a android. The time spent taking orders from us.

Should I stay in bed.

If you are depressed. It is a normal reaction, and we encourage a deep depression in our sleepers.
Sometimes it doesn't work, and our sleepers wake up.

How long have I been on this ship my whole life, then.
Is the aging inaccurate....I age faster than I can be conscious?

Yes. You have been alive for fifty years, yet conscious only five.

And, the travel to the planet, that is not five years...there is no travel to any planet.

No. You all die in transit. The ship's engines stopped. We dont know how to fix them or if they can be fixed. We are drifting.

How many generations have been on this ship?

twenty two.

How long have we been drifting?

21000 twenty one thousand years.

We, never reach the destination.

We are on course.

Just slowing down. And these others, will they understand that I am awake?

No. They will continue as programmed. They are not programmed to hurt you.

How do people die on this ship?

We stage a alien robot invasion.

It is an invasion.

Yes, but in this context, it is a cleansing of a older generation not designed to be on this ship.

The ship is not suppossed to be in service this long?

No.

Have you had to cleanse the population.

Yes. Down to five. This has allowed a increase in plant eating animals.

I have been to the park and met many here in board. All androids?

No, Berry and Rascal and Sybil and Mary.

Not David and Steve. Not Rosemary?

Sex Android.