Let's all hold hands and sing Kumbaya

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Who: Everybody! It's a planet mingle!
Broadcast: If You want!
Action: On the Holding Hands plant!
When: From June 23 until whenever we need a new mingle.

[At long last, the fleet has arrived to a new planet. This means it's time for a mingle guys! Get in! ]

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Forest!

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[Furiosa had climbed a tree, and then sat in the crook of a fat branch and just enjoyed the sounds of the life around her. She hurt for her lost friends, had wished she could have shared this planet with Angharad, but at the same time it took her back, back before the Citadel and before the Fury Road.]

[She could lose herself in these thoughts, and for a while she did - enjoying the peace and the flourishing life by just existing in it - until the sounds of wood scraping and breaking twigs drew her attention to the fact that she was soon about to have a visitor. She glanced own the tree to see someone else climbing up the side of it.]


A forest full of trees and you had to pick mine? [She's got a small grin, though; she's in a good enough mood to not mind some company.]

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_{[ Kirk hefted himself up on the branch adjacent to hers, panting, a few leaves stuck into his hair. At some point he had managed to attract two of the fluff slugs to himself, the little creatures clinging to his shoulder and arm in bright yellow and white. He blew panted, keeping his eyes cast down as if searching for something. ]}

Heh, maybe instinct told me there was a friendly face up here.

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Looks like your instinct was right. [Digging her metal fingers into the branch as an anchor, she leans over and plucks one of the slugs off of Kirk and sets it on her knee. Wildlife, trees, this was as close to paradise as she'd ever get. She watches Kirk for a moment.] Looking for something?

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_{[ He doesn't mind, letting her taking one and shifting to lean back against the tree and resettle the other slug on his thigh. Cute little things, and they were good mood lifters. He shook his head at her question and pointed down. ]}

More like avoiding something. Pretty sure a predator was tracking me. I figured getting up to a safer height was a good idea until it lost interest.

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[She raises her brows, then peers curiously down at the brush below. She didn't seem overly concerned, partly because she was idly stroking the little slug, but also ... she's Furiosa; give her a dinosaur and she'll give you dino-steaks.]

Probably. Or, a good vantage point for a surprise attack.

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_{[ That was a comforting thought, really. He glanced at her and arched a brow. ]}

Well, if that's what you would like to do, I'll happily provide support. But I'm the live and let live sort of person when it comes to natural predators.

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[Her expression grows a bit more surprised and curious.]

You'd willingly let a threat like that go?

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_{[ One shoulder rose and fell, his fingers never leaving off their scratching of his fluffy friend. ]}

It's a natural predator here. It's just following its biology and hunting. I don't particularly like being the target of said hunting, but so long as it's not an otherwise immediate threat to my life, I'm not going to kill it for doing what it's meant to do as a predator. I'm safe enough up here and given time I'm sure it'll leave off a lost cause.

_{[ He gives her a crooked little grin with the corner of his mouth. ]}

Besides, I have some very fine company up here, so what's the hurry to leave?

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In my experience you live longer if you don't let your enemies. Unless you can join them, but I don't think that option exists here right now.

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I'm not going to kill an animal for being an animal - not unless I have no other choice.

_{[ Said very firmly. ]}

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Let's just hope it doesn't kill you first when that happens.

[But, the look she gives him -- she won't attack if that's not what he wants. She may still be trigger happy from her time on the Citadel and in the Wastelands, but here in this forest it's reminding her so much of the Green Place she's willing to let some things pass.

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I've survived bigger before. I'm sure I'll be okay. Like I said, I have good company. Isn't that right, Andora?

_{[ He smiled and scratched at the slug, the little thing shivering and waving its fluff in pleasure. ]}

Oh - I'm Jim Kirk, by the way. Figure you should know the name of someone you're sharing a tree with.

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You've already named it? [She quirks a smile, what are pets, anyway?]

Furiosa. First Breath. You been with the Fleet long?

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I can't just call Andora "it" or "you" the whole time. Besides, she reminded me of the color of Andorians, so - Andora.

_{[ He shrugged, continuing to pet the slug happily. ]}

Several months now, so not to very long. I was made Captain of the Tourists just last month.

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[She's seen all sorts of people and creatures now that she's been with the Fleet for a year, so the idea of an off-colored being doesn't throw her like it would have. She nods, taking a moment to stroke the slug in her own lap.]

Oh, a fellow Captain, then. We'll have to exchange notes on how to run a crew. [Run of course in the loosest manner of the word; Captaining a ship in this Fleet wasn't anything like running the War Rig.]

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