03 ❀

[princessia]

Who: Elize Lutus and... YOU, maybe?!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Huntress
When: 7/19

[ When Elize awakens from cryosleep is when the network decides to record her panic as she sits up with a jolt, like she'd just woke up from a nightmare. It felt like a dream, but she's certain it wasn't. Before she even acknowledges the fact that she's back on the fleet, away from Rieze Maxia, she's searching around her bed frantically, patting at the sheets for something that should be there. ]

Teepo... Teepo?

[ She clasps her hands near her chest where she would normally hold her doll. It's the almost exact behavior during her first days on the fleet. Although she knows the full truth about the toy now, old habits die hard.

As she sits in her bed, she looks around at the metal walls of her room on the Huntress, taking deep breaths to calm down. She reaches up, gently running her finger around the augment behind her ear and confirming where she is. The memories are beginning to sink back in. ]

It's this place again.

[ A pause. ]

...Cullen?

Comments

[princessia]

Um... yes?

[ Elize tilts her head, taking a closer look. It doesn't take her long to identify the shape. She reaches to gently touch the petals, tracing its shape of the petals with her finger. ]

They look kind of like hearts! And they're my favorite color.

[dawnwillcome]

I didn't know you liked pink so much. I'll be sure to remember that.

[For reasons. Present related reasons.]

It's easy to take care of, so all you've got to worry about is watering it.

[princessia]

[ She calls herself a propinkist. She'll love most cute pink things. ]

I'll take good care of them.

[ Gifts from others are precious, she wouldn't dare forget. She'd been taking proper care of her current flowers as well, back before she suddenly fell into cryosleep. ]

Was someone taking care of my other flowers while I was asleep?

[dawnwillcome]

Cullen did a wonderful job keeping up with everything, don't worry.

[Now that there's no cause to worry what might happen if Elize were to stay asleep, Jove can appreciate how sweet it was to see Cullen watching over Elize the way he had.]

Once you're feeling up to it, you should see the planet we've stopped at his month. Have you ever been to the beach?

[princessia]

[ She smiles. She shouldn't be too surprised that Cullen's been tending to her plants. ]

I have. I like looking at the ocean.

[ Though the several times she has been near a beach, it was only to travel by ship. Never to play in the sand or the water. ]

[dawnwillcome]

[That's definitely something they'll have to fix.]

Well then, you'll have to come with me to teach me everything there is to know about it. Before coming here, the only ocean I had seen had a beach of rocks and it rained the entire time.

[princessia]

Oh, I... [ She looks back down at her hands propped on her lap. ]

To tell you the truth, there really isn't much I can tell you.

[dawnwillcome]

[Hey now, none of that. Jove reaches out to very gently tug on a lock of Elize's hair.]

You're underestimating how much I'd like to hear anything you have to tell me.

[princessia]

All I can tell you is that the ocean is really big and that it's kind of scary. I only liked looking out at the water from the ships I rode on.

[ She tilts her gaze back up, showing an embarrassed smile. See, she doesn't have anything much interesting to say about it... ]

[dawnwillcome]

[Jove smiles gently at her, entirely encouraging.]

What was that like? I've never been on a ship before.

[princessia]

Breezy...?

[ A pause. Her sea voyages were uneventful, for the most part. She mostly spent her time on the deck, listening to the others discuss their next course of action. They were all older than her and sometimes they used words she couldn't understand. She doesn't think that's the most entertaining thing to tell Jove about...

But something else eventually comes into mind. ]

My friend Leia... back when I didn't know her very well, she wanted to travel with me and my other friends. She had to sneak on one of our ships to follow us. When we found her, she was sleeping in a barrel.

[ There's a hint of laughter in her voice as she talks about her friend, almost like she's gradually returning to better spirits... ]