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Who: Makie and you guys
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: This evening

[Makie wakes feeling more relaxed and a lot clearer than she has in a long time. It's enough that, for a time, she just stays in bed. An odd bed, a very soft one. Given she'd spent a year sleeping on the floor-- and her last memories-- it's a luxury she indulges in.

She knows this is an unfamiliar place. She just doesn't care.

Eventually she pushes the coverlet back and stands, collects her shawl from the stand nearby and settles it across her shoulders. Her clothes are clean and in good repair. That's interesting. The shamisen is there and she picks it up, freezing for a moment as she registers the difference in weight. Notes it, dismisses it. She doesn't...need it here, does she?

It's not until she explores that she begins to feel the first confusion. This is not at all what she would have expected, alien and unfamiliar walls and machinery. Not only that, the more she exerts herself the more the heaviness in her lungs becomes more pronounced, and eventually she sinks into a nearby chair to get her breath back. She's better than she was by far, but she's still sick. She shouldn't still be sick. Surely.

All right, then.

After a while, unnerved by the silence and emptiness of the place, she begins playing her shamisen. If she'd explored a little more, she might have found others, but she's tired. If there are others, they can come to her instead.]

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[Eventually, a broadcast. It's short and to the point and delivered in a thin, tired voice by a Japanese woman in a kimono with exceedingly pale skin.]

I understand this is no longer Adstringendum. [She still stumbles over that name, even after a year. Too many damn consonants. And then her tone turns wry.] It is also very clearly not the land of the dead, and this communicator is... familiar.

I apologise as you've no doubt heard these questions many times before, but I should like to know where I am and why.

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[They could have been there at the same time, then. There were a lot more people before the city changed and she only met a handful of them. But that means precisely nothing to either of them, probably, and the other thing he has to say is far more important. Her gaze swings back to him, suddenly more sharp and a little hopeful.]

Others? Is there a little girl here? Fair hair? She was probably calling for her mother.

[Yeah apparently everyone else can go hang, she just wants her feral not-daughter :c]

That doesn't sound familiar.

[ sorry makie :c ]

There's a man named Sam Winchester, and a woman named Nami. Both of them seem to know about Adstringendum.

[Ah. She supposes that would have been too good to be true. Still, she likes Sam. Has a vague recollection of Chopper's crewmate. Not everyone is a stranger.]

I'm familiar with both. I suppose it's... comforting that I'm not the only one. If a little strange.

[Which feels rude, given Zuko was also there at some point.]

My name is Otono-Tachibana Makie.

Zuko.

[ pause ]

I think I must have gone home before all of you came there, or something. I don't remember any of you.

I'm sorry. [Because Makie knows you could resent something like that, when no arrival from a place is someone you know.]

If you did, it may have been better that way. It is... not a pleasant place anymore.

It wasn't a really pleasant place to begin with.

[ to be totally honest. a lot of really messed up things happened in adstringendum, but zuko genuinely loved the people he met there. everything else was garbage. ]

I suppose it depends on your point of view.

[Sometimes home is worse, bro.]

I guess.

[ too true ]

This world isn't so bad. You're just stuck on a spaceship for weeks.

[ which is literally awful for him, but ]

So I understand. But weeks implies that changes on occasion...?

I've only been on one planet since coming here, but I guess the Fleet stops once a month. We finally just left the last one we were on.

[ thank god, because zuko was sick of ice. ]

[Oh. They visit different planets.

Okay, then. That's kind of... overwhelming, so she asks absently for the sake of politeness while her mind tries restarting in the distance somewhere.]

What was it like?

It was a giant ball of ice.

[ zuko hates giant balls of ice ]

It had little foxes on it that a lot of people took for pets.

[From the distaste that crosses her face, you wouldn't be the only one. Freezing planets would probably kill her stone dead in a matter of weeks, hooray.]

Foxes aren't pets.

[You kill them for meat and fur, what is wrong with people. And if you don't need them you leave them the hell alone.]

Tell that to Allen Walker, he got me one.

[ irritably.

zuko quietly adores i, but. ]

[Heh.]

You don't sound particularly grateful. Is the fox all right in its new environment?

[You can always designate it your emergency food supply.]

It seems to be enjoying itself.

[ naruto the fox is sleeping on the therapy couch in his personnel room and has been taking up All The Space since his arrival. rude. ]

[Dude you called it naruto omg]

If you truly don't want to keep it, I'm sure another would take it for you.

[ of course i fucking did do you expect me to do anything seriously kj ]

It can stay for now.

[ it's nice company. honestly. ]

[no not really tbh but hey at least I didn't get a believe it!! in those brackets]

I see. [One of those kinds, are you Zuko. She smiles faintly.]

I shall hope the next place we visit is less...cold, in any event.

Me too, I was glad to leave.

[ sokka and katara, he's sure, were unhappy about it, but. ]

Maybe a beach. A warm one.

[Screw Sokka and Katara they have no taste.]

A beach sounds lovely. With a light breeze.

And access to sunlight.

[ that's, really, zuko's largest issue. ]

[Well, that goes without saying. But it makes her curious.]

Do you need access for any particular reason?

No.

{ yes ]

I'm just tired of being stuck on a ship. It gets claustrophobic.

I understand. To be trapped indoors for long periods of time is not for everyone.

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