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[tobeajedi]

Who: Herons and visitors!
Broadcast: None.
Action: SS Heron
When: February!

[It's a February mingle! Come visit, stay and do nothing, enjoy the luxury bath suite.]

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[astrobleme]

Shinji, meanwhile, had been disturbed to notice just how many people were not only from Earth, but from Japan. Did the Fleet's audience have a weird fixation on Japanese people? Were they perverts or something? Either way, Shinji was grateful about being rescued from a rapidly decaying world.

"Sometimes it seems like I'm totally out of place... but for the most part, I'm handling it okay. It doesn't feel like I'm dreaming anymore." Rather, it didn't feel like he was hallucinating. The walls weren't closing in and the vents weren't rattling like thunder and he wasn't on the verge of screaming his lungs out. He was actually trying to talk to people of his own volition. Progress.

He listened patiently to Vima's explanation of the Force.

"So everyone's connected to everyone else...?"

[tobeajedi]

"That's good to hear. This place was enough of a shock for me--it must be really tough if you've never been in space, to suddenly be millions of lightyears from everything you're familiar with. And when you do feel out-of-place, just remember you're out of place with everyone else together."

It seemed like it might be a little deeper than that, given how well he'd hidden from the rest of the crew. Still, she was glad that he was seeming a little more comfortable.

"Yes--everything that's alive. I can sense you, the other people on this ship--even some of the Jedi on the other ships, or people with similar powers." She smiled. "It's its own entity, too. Sometimes it gives you visions, or just a warning that you're about to be in danger."

[astrobleme]

"Yeah, I guess so," Shinji said, which was a bit dismissive. He didn't know how to share his fears with other people. Plus, there was a lot more bothering Shinji than feelings of being a little out of place. He had felt like a pile of crap at home, even before the apocalypse, when he was just another faceless person in the crowd. He never figured out how to deal with his anxiety in a constructive manner.

"But the Force sounds like... well, that's incredible. Being able to see into the future, that's just incredible. It reminds me of... it's like a life force, you're saying? That's a thing where I'm from, too, sort of. Everyone has a soul. A person's soul can exert a special force on other souls, or something..." His guardian had explained metaphysical biology to him once, but he hadn't understood most of it. He smiled sheepishly at Vima. "I'm not explaining it very well."