Ah, a sad scene :c

I do like forcing the emotion in these things.

I very much appreciate that you'd give it a look. Thanks much for that.

One of those bitter sweet car wrecks.

Who knows? Maybe the scientist and figure something out with his partner to get Obi to safety or something?

I think I've already got the next bit figured out, just waiting for the right prompt word but we'll get to see what the plan is. Still want to go back and follow up with the scientist's boss's visit to the lab though, too (had a scene in my head that I hope might draw some in a bit).

I'm grateful that you'd give this one a read, very much appreciate it.

Don't let my anticipation direct your writing. You do what you do, dude. You got me hooked, I'm in it now for the long haul.

Oh no!!!! What's going to happen to Obi??

Whatever it is, the scientist's company will figure something out for it, for better or for worse. Obi is far too precious to simply discard.

Thanks much for having gone over this one, very much grateful for that.

Oh no, damn. I knew something was going to happen to Obi. Why don't these people care about it : <

Like really, that company is evil.

Well, they do care about O-13E... they just don't care about it being happy is all! Not exactly a point in their favor, huh?

I very much appreciate that you'd look through this one, thanks much for that.

You had better man up and rescue Obi, James!

hear hear!!! Don't you dare, or I know a pair of vixens who are going to be sooooooo upset...

Vix

Hopefully it's not too late to do something about things. Unfortunately, James is just a bit too hesitant to stand up to the higher ups... Maybe when his colleague gets back from her trip she can talk some sense into him.

I'm grateful that you'd give this one a read, very much appreciate that.

Well I certainly hope so! ;)

and by the by - I was just out in the back yard and a really really cute baby raccoon snuck up on me to beg a cookie... if they could only talk...

Vix

"Hoo-man, cook-ee, puh-leeze!" - baby raccoons if they could talk
(While living with my uncle, we'd get opossums and raccoons visiting the back porch picking out the cat bowls. Most of them were really chill but I can't say I ever had the courage to get near them.)

Thanks much for taking the time for this one, very grateful for that.

Was a bit surprised that this one fit on one page, but it made sense once I read your description.

I think you did well with what you had to work with here. I have folks I'm working with that have developed the mindset that page counts amount to substance, but I've always appreciated the fact that sometimes an entire chapter, thesis and whatnot--however you choose to break up your sections--could, in fact, be as short as a single page. And I think this more or less accomplishes that.

Granted, I don't know what implications him sending off OB-13E's files off to who-knows-where have, but it leaves me interested in what comes next.

I appreciate you saying that you thought I managed this one well given I was working with a 365-word limit. I might subconsciously be one of those that wrongly believes greater page counts make for a deeper piece as I always tend to just keep going and going. Whenever I attempt to leave things short and sweet, that's when I start to really worry that nothing much really happens. Fluffing my writing up with a bunch of pointless drivel is something I really do need to work on, if I'm entirely honest.

This whole scene was really just made for the prompt and I'm not certain I'll include it in the full write up. I suppose it does kind of fit, in my head at least, but was never really a part of my initial plans. Ultimately, my thought process was by sending off the files this was the scientist basically saying goodbye to his test subject-turned-friend and giving up on getting to see it again.

I'm grateful you'd be willing to come back and look these over, thank you much for that.

It really took me a while to grasp the 'do more with less' mindset (still working on it to be honest). I think writing a crap ton of science-related papers in college likely led to me changing my ways. I'd say use the drafting phase to get the gist going and then go back through and flesh things out afterward where they might seem a bit on the thin side. That being said, I do think you excel at being descriptive in ways that I in particular am taking notes on, so what you're doing right now is by no means the 'wrong' way, if such a thing exists.

As for the scene, I think it makes an important statement as it is. While I'm not privy to where you intend to go with this series, I'd suggest trying to work it into the final script somewhere. I actually write prototypes of pivotal or important scenes and conversations up when they hit me--long before I am where I can write them into the story--and come back and integrate them if/when necessary when I get there later (assuming the plot still feels how I expected it to). I see this as sort of you doing something like that. Its overall relative quality is better in general as well, probably because you had more time to focus on what little word count real estate you had.

You’re going to make me cry, Dead. What happened to Obi?

The answer to that question is actually revealed in the (at the time of typing this) previous week's Thursday Prompt. I am glad to hear that you thought I managed the emotion here and that you actually feel for both James and Obi's plight; you of all people know just how much I love forcing emotion down people's throats!

I very much appreciate you having taken a look over this one, very much grateful for that.