Sleeping WIth Vultures

[therewerefifty]

Who: Anyone
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose
When: 9/24

[Makie opens her eyes a crack; finally, after a good six weeks.  She feels too heavy and worn out, so something is obviously amiss, though her first thought is maybe she's just ill.  She's had mornings like this in the past, before a friendly angel came and cleared the disease from her lungs.

She's probably also not alone, either.  Well, then.

It might be why, despite how fragilely she shuffles toward the kitchen soon afterward, she looks amazingly content.  Maybe she spent that much time dreaming some good shit, who knows?  Or maybe it's just that she's no longer alone anymore.  Other crew on the Windrose might have noticed she had a visitor in the past few weeks.  Makie's sorry, guys.  Hopefully Lilly didn't break anything :|

When she's woken up some with food and good tea and has caught up with her crew and made sure they're all still in one piece, she'll hit the network, looking tired and pale but courteous as always.]

[Broadcast]

I've been asleep a long time, it seems.

For those who don't know me, my name is Otono-Tachibana Makie.  There's a relatively new addition to the fleet whom some of you may have met.  [And regretted it.]  She's a small child by the name of Lilly, fair-haired, who has... some difficulty communicating.  But she likes to explore.  If you find her on your ship, please treat her well.  If you wish to remove her from your ship, I will retrieve her.

[She's got the best bet of doing it without causing more disaster, at any rate.  Please be nice to her feral child, Fleet.  She asks nicely.]

...thank you in advance.

Have I missed anything important in the last... month? 

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[therewerefifty]

[ALERT ALERT PERSONAL SPACE

...well, actually. It's Misty. That's... well, it's unexpected, but it's more than fine. Makie stands there uncertainly for a moment before she smiles, at first tentatively and them deepening into genuine warmth, hands coming up to return the hug. It's nice, to be honest. To have people miss her.]

I didn't mean to sleep so long. Hello, Misty. Have you been all right?

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[mistyday]

[Still not quite ready to let go, Misty looks up at Makie.]

Just real worried about you.

[therewerefifty]

I'm sorry, then. I wasn't quite expecting to sleep so long.

[Well, that's an inane thing to say, but she sounds sheepish anyway. She lets her arms drop after a while, though her fingers still touch gently to Misty's sleeves.]

I don't suppose anyone knows why that happens, do they?

[mistyday]

[Misty releases Makie.]

No, don't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. No one ever seems to be hurt from it neither though.

[therewerefifty]

Apart from feeling stiff for sleeping so long, I imagine. [She says it ruefully.]

It's good to be awake. Has anything important happened while I was out?

[mistyday]

Well I found Lilly but I suspect you already knew that.

[therewerefifty]

I did, of a sort. [Never has she been so happy to wake up finding someone looming over her bed. Honestly.] She was in my room. But I didn't realise you were the one who found her.

[mistyday]

Yeah I found her in the garden on the Iskaulit. Poor little thing was totally freaking out but soon as she heard you were here, well that calmed her down right quick.

[therewerefifty]

I'm impressed she made it to the garden at all. She must have gone crazy all by herself on the Marsiva. [Let alone whichever poor ship drew the short straw and landed themselves a feral child crew member.]

You brought her here?

[mistyday]

[She nods.]

Seemed like the best thing to do.

[therewerefifty]

[...Misty, you're amazing.]

Thank you. It was... wonderful to wake up to her face. [And her attempted abuse, but eh.] I hope she wasn't trouble beforehand

[mistyday]

[She grins.]

Only a little. She likes my swamp.

[therewerefifty]

Vision said you had a swamp. [She smiles.] I must admit, I was very curious.

[mistyday]

Do you wanna come see it?

[therewerefifty]

I'd love to.

[mistyday]

Great!

[Misty dances ahead of Makie, thrilled to have her friend back and excited to show her the changes to the ship. When they get to the cargo bay, which is looking more and more like a greenhouse every day, she stands proudly in front of a little pond-like area, with lots of moss and some water lilies and even a small tree or two.]

What do you think? Didn't Vision do just a wonderful job?

[therewerefifty]

...I hadn't realised there was an actual pond here. [She's pleasantly surprised, though.]

It's a lovely job, Misty. You grow medicinal herbs here?

[mistyday]

Yeah! These are the kinda plants I know best, so I'll be able to make even better potions for everyone.

[therewerefifty]

That's good. Seems there's more use for such things on the Fleet as time goes by.

[mistyday]

[Her face falls at that.]

There was... a real bad thing that happened while you were gone.

[therewerefifty]

[Her eyebrows lift slowly. Vision hadn't mentioned anything real bad.]

What happened?

[mistyday]

I wasn't there when it happened so I don't know all the details but there was... a dragon or something like it that attacked a bunch of people in the fleet.

[therewerefifty]

[...oh.]

Kitty mentioned a dragon, but she didn't know much about it. [Guess she should slate this particular dragon as Not Good, then.]

Were there many injuries? Has the dragon been dealt with?

[mistyday]

A lot of people were hurt - most of them were kept on the Blue Fish until they got better.

[She hesitates before adding:]

I need to tell you something real important too... I don't want you ever caught by surprise and your my friend so you deserve to know.

[therewerefifty]

[Makie straightens, looking at Misty curiously.]

I'm listening.