NARRATOR: Parnassus Dom, Barad Mellon...
SFX: *Comm* BINGLE CHIRP
PARA: Bristlecone?
BRISTLECONE: *over comm* Hello, Mistress! I have now been to Sol System!
PARA: I'm happy for you. I really am.
I can't imagine what it must have been like to be stuck in one system for 600 years.
PARA: But give me fifty years here, and I may have a sense of it.
BRISTLECONE: *over comm* You do not have fifty years, Mistress.
PARA: Do you know something I don't?
BRISTLECONE: *over comm* Many things. And I will be there to collect you in fifty minutes.