04 ( voice )

[intelligently]

Who: Lydia + open
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action:
When: 23rd July

So, since people were asking about it, has anyone gone back to the tree after receiving something? It's not likely that you would get something else but - depending on why we got the first thing - there could have been a chance. Entertainment, services given. Who knows.

And hopefully things other than pets were received, because that's all I've heard about so far.

( No, she's seen one or two other things but it has mostly been pets. Lydia got a nice book, though! )

Comments

video;

[universal_charm]

I got a record player and a record with all of my favorite classical songs on it. So you definitely can get things other than pets.

video;

[intelligently]

You should play it across the fleet. It might break up the monotony.

( Monotony. Like things are that boring here )

I got a book. I'm glad not everyone got a pet- it would end up hectic.

( And smelly )

Re: video;

[universal_charm]

Haha, I did, actually. Beastie Boys.

Which book? Must have been important if you got it from the wishing tree.

_{[ That sounds so weird to say, you can hear him try and work it out of his mouth, Lydia, and it's obviously something he has trouble with. ]}

[intelligently]

It's a bestiary. It was important at home.

( She doesn't need it here but it's a nice reminder )

[universal_charm]

A bestiary?

I... don't think I have heard that term come up in a real life sentence before.

[intelligently]

You wouldn't unless you need to know anything about monsters.

[universal_charm]

Guess that depends on your definition of them.

[intelligently]

Generally supernatural creatures are the definition, but not all of them are monsters.

[universal_charm]

Supernatural, huh?

_{[ Raised brows are raised. ]}

[intelligently]

Uh huh. ( Perfectly serious ) I've seen more werewolves than anything else, but other things exist.

[universal_charm]

Werewolves? Like people changing into wolves on a full moon werewolves?

[intelligently]

With enough control they can change when they want to.

[universal_charm]

_{[ There's a pause as he digests that. ]}

I really want to say that's the strangest thing I've ever heard, but at this point it's really not.

[intelligently]

There's a lot of strange things you can see in space, or on another world.

[universal_charm]

Heh, what's the strangest thing you've seen so far then?

[intelligently]

I was part of a war involving dragons and ice giants. Somehow that's stranger than home.

[universal_charm]

Yeah, I can see that. How exactly did you end up in something like that?

[intelligently]

It was in Asgard, where I met Doctor McCoy.

[universal_charm]

Oh. I knew you had met him, just not where precisely.

_{[ He laughed softly. ]}

I can only imagine how much worse he was than usual. Or perhaps not. He's always happier with his feet planted in real gravity.

[intelligently]

I don't think he minded it. Most of it. He used to cook for his friends a lot.

[universal_charm]

Heh, seems like something he would do. We don't have much room for that on the Enterprise, sadly.

[intelligently]

That could be why he's sometimes grumpy.

[universal_charm]

You think? Maybe I should push for a real kitchen to get put into the Enterprise, then.

[intelligently]

It's worth a try. And he makes good pies.