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Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: July Planet!
When: The month of July!

[This is another planet mingle since the first one has nearly hit captcha! Feel free to continue threads or start brand new ones!]

July Planet Information

First Mingle Post

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[takingkarabusiness]

It was called Krypton.

[dancingmd]

[Oh... was.]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...

[takingkarabusiness]

You couldn't have known. It was awhile back now, even for me. My cousin and I were sent to Earth before it happened.

[dancingmd]

Still... I am sorry. I know a little bit about what it's like to lose your home at a young age.

[takingkarabusiness]

You do?

[dancingmd]

[She holds out a hand.]

May I show you?

[takingkarabusiness]

I would appreciate that.

[ takes her hand ]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly glosses over the details of the plague that wiped out most of Arvada - no one needs to see that, nor does she particularly want to remember it herself. She's long come to terms with the suffering she saw as a child, but that does not mean she wishes to linger on it.

Instead, she shows Kara a ship, a small Starfleet transport vessel, slowly coming out of orbit over a planet that looks very much like Earth - green land, white clouds, and blue ocean. From space, it looks perfectly peaceful and safe, belying the devastation the disease left in its wake. Beverly presses her face to the window as Arvada grows smaller and smaller. It's all she's known of home in her short life - Copernicus City, where she was born, is but a hazy memory of her parents, a few rooms in their house, the family cat. Arvada is where Nana brought her to start fresh and now they have to leave. An older woman's hand rests on her shoulder and Beverly turns to face her. Nana. Her grandmother looks tired and so much older than she used to.

It'll be all right, Beverly.

But where are we going to go? Even in memory, Beverly's voice sounds so small and young and scared.

We'll find a new home, don't you worry. Starfleet will help us. What matters is that we're together.Nana smiles softly. Wherever you are is home to me. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ Kara thought she'd be prepared for this, but it was a silly fantasy. It's not only her own experience bleeding through, but the devastation that anyone else had to experience something like this. The unique combination of looking back on a planet and being sent away, knowing it's the last time. She doesn't want to make this about her but she can't help it when tears start rolling down her face. She needs a moment to compose herself enough to speak, but when she does, she looks away and down, her voice creaky ]

Thanks. For sharing.

[dancingmd]

[Beverly tears up as well, in sympathy and in some amount of guilt, for drawing out such feelings in Kara. She gives her hand a gentle squeeze.]

You're welcome. Thank you for letting me share.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she attempts to continue on—maybe she can just quell the emotions that rose within her and go back to being cheery, happy Kara ]

That was your grandmother?

[dancingmd]

[Beverly nods.]

My parents died when I was young, so Nana was the one who raised me - and the one who inspired me to become a doctor.

[takingkarabusiness]

She seemed very kind. And loving.

[dancingmd]

She was - and the strongest person I ever knew.

[takingkarabusiness]

She'd have to be. I'm glad you had her.

[dancingmd]

Me too. I can't even imagine who I'd be today without her.

[And yet... there was so much Beverly didn't know about Felisa. After everything that happened with Ronin, well... her feelings about her grandmother are much more complicated now.]

[takingkarabusiness]

It's funny how these things work. I want nothing more than to have my home and family back, but I wouldn't give up who I am now for it.

[dancingmd]

That's good... trying to mess with the past [She shakes her head] it never goes well.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ i feel like you're foreshadowing something, bev ]

I wouldn't dream of it. I love my friends and family.

[dancingmd]

[What? No, never!]

I'm glad you found a second home. That can be difficult.

[She smiles gently.]

I would like to see it, if I could? And I can show you my home too, if you'd like.

[Let's go for much happier things, shall we?]