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[Your resident tiny, tiny adult is taking advantage of the return to immediately find her sword and shield again and make sure they're unchanged. If you're looking for her, she can be found on the bridge of the ship, polishing them.]

[ When Elize goes to check on all of her belongings, she finds something that wasn't there before: a stuffed animal that has the exact same likeness as Teepo. The difference is that its coloration is different and doesn't float like the original Teepo.

She can be found in her personnel room, drawing or doodling on a piece of paper. When she holds up her drawing to ask the doll for its opinion, it speaks in a childish voice with a prerecorded message:

"My name is Hoppo! Will you all be my friends?"

Frowning at the response, she sets her drawing back down and returns to adding some finishing touches to it.

When not drawing, she can be found taking a nap on the couch, cuddling the doll in her arms.

While the ship's docked on the waystations, she can be found poking through the shops for anything useful or in the courtyard. If dropping by the courtyard, she brought out a few pieces of her little tea set and has it set up on a picnic table. ]

[ Elize is roaming the ship with her brand new(?) doll her arms, checking on her crewmates. She doesn't remember seeing Miah with a sword and shield before, even though she told her that she's a paladin. She assumes she received a gift from their hosts as well. ]

...Did you just find that here too?

[Creepy dolls aside, why nap on a couch when you have a perfectly good bed? Not that Cullen has it in him to wake her right now, though he might accidentally as he pulls a blanket over her, tucking it around her. And... the doll.]

I did not.

[She pockets her polishing rag, pulling out a small white container.]

This was what I found left in my room. I had not realized we had all received such gifts.

There's probably a basket for you, somewhere. Maybe you got something from home.

[ She gives the doll in her arms a light squeeze, frowning. Receiving a gift from their hosts hasn't cheered her up much, despite the fact she's clinging to her doll now like it were the real Teepo. ]

I did.

[She pockets the container again, placing a finger to the white markings on her face.]

They were but paints.

[ Because she doesn't feel like traveling down the hallway to her bedroom. Feeling the blanket placed over her, she stirs in her sleep. She shifts awake, squinting tiredly at Cullen. ]

...Daddy?

[ And her voice triggers Hoppo to speak again: "Hello! My name is Hoppo! Will you all be my friends? ]

[He wonders how easily that doll can go "missing." He's only mortal.]

Did you tire yourself out drawing?

[ She cants her head slightly, eyes following Miah's finger. ]

For... face paint? Do the markings mean something?

[She inclines her head, taking a moment before responding.]

They can have many meanings. As war paint, to give Menphina's protection, or to mark a clan. To we Miqo'te, these paints are a vital part of our culture.

[ Good luck getting the doll away from her. But she probably won't miss it as much if it does go missing. This isn't her Teepo...

She rubs her eyes, holding Hoppo in one arm. Sitting up, it doesn't look like she's going to bother returning to her nap. But she keeps the blanket partially over herself. ]

I got a little bored...

Bored, hmm? [He sits next to her, rubbing his jaw.] Should we do something about that?

Oh...

[ Miqo'te. She'd been wondering what to call her. She was too shy to ask about it before. ]

What do yours mean?

I don't know...

[ She shrugs, then tugs the blanket over her shoulders. Surely all the games she normally plays must have crossed her mind. She probably needs something new to do. ]

Like what?

[ And oops, I forgot Hoppo's reference link is wrong... here's the right one! Too late to edit my fail. orz ]

[That gets a faint smile out of her, like there's a joke poor Elize isn't privy to.]

Mine are the same as my wife's.

[It's not even subtle as a deflection, but she doesn't seem to be willing to say any more on that subject.]

[Look at her, all cozy. Cullen smiles before he grabs the blanket and pulls it over her head. O o p s.]

That's fun for me.

[ the young westerosi woman with the dark hair doesn't necessarily integrate well with the rest of her crew. mostly, she keeps to herself. often, she leaves to visit one of the other ships -- though she never discusses which one. at the very least, she seems heartbroken that of all the people she'd met back on the marsiva...not a one is part of this ship.

so she keeps her own company, often in the kitchen. today she's poking 'round the cupboards and looking for something hot to drink. ]

[A new crewmate at this timing seems quite strange, so Miah ends up tailing this girl to the kitchen. Her feline ears twitch as she watches, but... This girl doesn't seem like an intruder.]

Is aught amiss?

O-oh? [ a turn of her head; a look of chagrin. sansa bites her bottom lip and folds her hands together whenever she realizes she's been caught out by one of the other crew-members. she shakes her head. ] No. Not at all. Only I...I'm looking for something, my lady.

[It's not a very big surprise to see Elize on her own on like this, but ever since hearing about her near kidnapping it's not something Jove is particularly in love with seeing. She knows Elize can handle herself, and that she'll be even better at doing exactly that with Cassandra's lessons, but it still doesn't sit quite right.

If someone had told her months ago she'd come to feel this protective over a shemlen child, Jove would have laughed herself sick. She'd go out of her way to see to it than any child was safe, but this? This would have been unthinkable if it weren't for Atroma bringing her here.]

Hello, da'len. [There's that elvish word pet name she'd taken to using for Elize again, something close to little one but with a much more familial feeling to it.] Have you found anything exciting to buy?

You need not be nervous. You are crew here, are you not?

[She recognizes that body language, having so frequently used it herself when she was younger. She relaxes her own shoulders, and lowers her ears, trying to seem non-threatening.]

My name is Miah. May I ask yours?

[ She still doesn't know what da'len means, even though it's not the first time she heard it from Jove. Yet she automatically responds to the name regardless. ]

Jove!

[ When Elize turns to look up at her with a smile, the staff that she's holding near her side becomes more noticeable. It's the staff that Jove crafted for her awhile back, with a little ribbon added on the end of it, a finishing touch by Elize. Now she can bludgeon shady people with her staff and punch like Cassandra when they get close. ]

Not really.

[ She pokes through a rack of casual clothes with the end of her staff. Nothing but plain t-shirts, jeans, and shorts in boring colors. ]

I've seen these before at the other waystations.

[ Elize spends most of her time in her personnel room, but whenever she does leave, the kitchen is one of the other places she does drop by. She has to eat sometime.

When she sees the unfamiliar woman searching through the cupboards, she looks in surprise. She hadn't realized the Huntress received a new crewmate. ]

Um... excuse me?

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