Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning

[entertainheir]

Who: First Breath crew
Broadcast: Nope
Action: SS First Breath
When: After the Shuffle

[Another week, another Shuffle and there's been a few new additions to the First Breath lately! What's everyone up to? Hopefully nobody's allergic to chocolate-flavored dessert cream.]

Comments

[realhumanbeing]

[He really ought to wait til tomorrow or the day after. Everyone's welcoming new people onto their ship, after all, and it's a little overwhelming-- let alone having to greet new visitors. And maybe if he'd thought, he could have come up with that himself-- but Steven is far too excited. A new shuffle means a potential that one of the Gems is here, after all! And even if they hadn't posted, they might be on a ship!

Unfortunately, that isn't the case this round. But there is someone new on the First Breath. Steven beams in only a few seconds after Bran, landing surprisingly gracefully.]

Hi! Are you new? I don't think I've met you before!

[summerschild]

[Bran is startled by Steven's sudden entrance, and his head shoots up in alarm, craning around to see him.]

I-I just came here, from the Marsiva.

[realhumanbeing]

Oh! You are new! Hi, I'm Steven.

[He comes to sit next to him, not realizing that Bran isn't lying down by choice.]

[summerschild]

[Having someone just come plop down next to him is a new one - so far, everyone's just stood over his head and talked down. Bran would take the time to appreciate that, if he hadn't just been beamed into his second spaceship of the week.]

I'm Bran. Bran Stark.

[realhumanbeing]

Steven Universe! I've been here a few months now. It's not so bad, once you get used to it. Though it's kinda . . . lonely sometimes. But everyone's really nice!

[summerschild]

You've been here for months?

[Bran was hoping days, at the most.]

[realhumanbeing]

Yeah. I don't know if there's . . . they kinda choose people at random to go home.

[summerschild]

Jason Todd said they sent home the most entertaining people.

[Whatever awful thing that means.]

[realhumanbeing]

Yeah . . . that's what they say, anyway. Did somebody explain it all to you?

[summerschild]

A few people did, on the Marsiva. They told me about our jobs, and about the things in our heads.

[realhumanbeing]

Yeah. It's kinda weird.

[He slides down onto his stomach, so he and Bran are about the same height.]

But there's good stuff! You get to learn a lot. And the places we visit are super interesting! And there's even other species of people! Elves!

[summerschild]

What are elves?

[realhumanbeing]

They're like us! Except they have super-pointy ears, and they don't wear shoes, annnd some of them can do magic! Not Fenris, though. He's my favorite elf here, but he kind of hates magic.

[summerschild]

I don't think we have those in Westeros. The Children of the Forest are magic, and the stories say they have big ears, but I don't know about their shoes.

[realhumanbeing]

Maybe they're the same! Though Fenris says he lives in a city . . . what's it like where you're from?

[summerschild]

I'm from the North. There are a lot of trees, and fields. I lived in a castle, Winterfell, but it's gone now.

[He says it as simply as possible.]

I've never seen a city before.

[realhumanbeing]

[Oh . . . but Bran doesn't want to seem to linger, so Steven moves on as well. Though he does scoot a little closer, in solidarity.]

They're pretty cool! But I live on the beach. I like it more than a city. It's nice to be alone sometimes.

[summerschild]

The beach?

[Another thing Bran hasn't experienced, but he doesn't want to say so. Steven is Pretty Damn Cool to him right now.]

That sounds nice. Nicer than the North.

[realhumanbeing]

I dunno, snow is pretty awesome! But the beach is nice. Maybe we'll go to a planet with a beach! We've seen some weird stuff so far, so I mean, it's totally possible!

[summerschild]

We haven't had snow at Winterfell since before I was born, though it is very cold now that winter is coming.

[He said the thing.]

What sort of things do you mean?

[realhumanbeing]

Like . . . there was this planet that was full of arcades and casinos and ice cream and junk, and you could win prizes really easy. And there was another that was a giant forest, and it had dragons!

[summerschild]

[He has no idea what most of those things are - including ice cream, sadly - but "dragons" piques his interest.]

There are dragons here?

[realhumanbeing]

I think so? I don't know if he lived on the planet or if he's somebody on the ship . . . we could ask, though! Do you have dragons at home?

[summerschild]

Not in a very long time. The last ones were killed in a war more than a hundred years ago.

[realhumanbeing]

Oh . . .

[That's sad.]

Well, maybe you can meet one here! There's some pretty great stuff here.