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Who: a tiny
Broadcast: voice
Action: on the pathstone!
When: 9/16

[the voice that comes through the feed sounds young and very frightened. she trips over her words and stutters, nervous, speaking very quickly. she's wandering a corridor on the pathstone, pacing rapidly after leaving the room she woke up in, and the sound of her hurried footsteps can be heard in the background.]

Hello? I-I'm sorry. I know I'm not supposed to talk to strangers. But I think I'm lost... Um, really lost. I don't remember how I got here at all, and I tried my dad's phone number but it isn't working.

[a pause. breathing in, breathing out. it doesn't make her sound more calm.]

I don't really know who I'm talking to, but if you can help me get home - I'm really scared. Um, my name is Natalie, I...

[she trails off, and there's a pause as she walks past a window for the first time, looks out into the vast array of stars and blackness out there.]

No way—

[she fumbles with the communicator for a moment, panicked, before the feed abruptly stops.

ooc: natalie/opal is being affected by an age down augment glitch! she'll be younger for about a week.]

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They certainly will be able to. If not, I will come to your aid as soon as I know where you are.

My name is Aria. It is a joy to meet you, Natalie.

...Can you come? I don't like talking to strangers, so I don't want to find anyone else... I'm sorry.

There is no need to be sorry. I will be there soon, fear not.

[immediately starts moving!]

Where in the ship are you? Do you know?

Um... I'm right next to a really big window. Does that help?

[no

but i'm not telling the kid that]

I will find it shortly. Shall I keep this on until I arrive so you feel safer?

If you're sure that's okay.

Of course it is. Worry not. Whatever makes you feel safer.

Okay. Um... I'll wait for you, then.

Then I will be there shortly.

[She keeps the video on, so Natalie can see her walking and getting into a shuttle.]

Are you feeling better now?

A little... This is really scary, though.

It will be less so, soon, I promise. Once you are not alone, it becomes enjoyable.

Being here is enjoyable...?

Ah... At least, it is for me. In my home, we have nothing like this. To look out a window and see endless stars is something impossible where I am from.

You didn't have telescopes?

Don't have what?

Telescopes... Do you not know what that is?

I do not.

Okay. Um, they're like... Do you know what a spyglass is?

... I do not...

Oh.

Um, you can see really far with them. You use them to look at the stars.

You cannot see the stars well enough with your eyes?

You can see them in more detail with a telescope, I think.

I see... It is true that having seen them here, they do not look like what I thought at all.

How did you think they would look?

Truthfully, I had never thought much of it.