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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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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.

[ especially when you're a fire bender ]

Adstringendum was a prison, but at least it had fresh air.

It didn't, at the end.

Everything was poisoned.

[ . . . right.

there's a pause. ]

Guess it's good that I got out early.

[That's what she said.]

I suppose you could count that as a blessing. By that time, there weren't many people left... I suspect most you knew would also have returned home. [If not all of them.]

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I've found one or two here, but they have no memory of Adstringendum.

[ so. ]

But it sounds like I left way before any of that happened.

I'm sorry you lost touch with your friends.

Would you return to Adstringendum if you'd had the choice? If it was still... the way you remembered it.

[ there's a silence ]

... no.

[ finally. ]

I need to be home -- that's where I'm meant to be. And if I'm here, then I'm supposed to be here for a reason.

[ even with all that he lost in adstringendum, he knows he needs to let go. even if it's hard. ]

That's a good way of looking at it. [The most practical way. She supposes if Castiel were here, he could arrange for Zuko to revisit the place from what she's heard, but time has passed. It wouldn't be the same.]

This place seems to be drawing in people from such places, however. You may get to see the people you knew from there again.

[She can hope. She's thinking of Lilly.]

I've got some people from home here, and some people that look familiar from Adstringendum, but some of them don't remember who I am... from there, anyway.

[ allen knows who zuko is, but doesn't know him from adstringendum. shit is weird. ]

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