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Who: Makie and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose
When: After the shuffle

[She came, she saw, she stole a bunch of stuff, she left. Makie isn't surprised by Lilly vanishing so quickly, and in some ways she thinks it's better-- these ships are too stark, too cooped up, for such a free-roaming child. She tells herself that. It's fine. It's fine.

It's not fine.

The broadcast is from Lilly's room, where Lilly's own things have gone-- leaving the leftover mess on the floor, bits of clothing, other stolen belongings. They're taken from across the Fleet, and Makie reaches down to tug a shirt free, folding it neatly. She'll organise this stuff. But she turned on the broadcast for a reason.]

If any of these items belong to you, please tell me. [Her voice sounds hollow to her own ears, and she pauses. Much quieter:] I'll arrange to get them back to you.

[She'll leave the feed on at least long enough for people to look over what's strewn around the floor. And then she'll stay in the room, sorting through the mess mechanically. It gives her something to do.

((if you want a small feral child to have stolen something from you, feel free to have it in the pile. You'll get it back within the day.))]

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O-oh, right! I remember, you mentioned that.

[She must be from pretty far back to call it that. Ochako jumps right on the subject change, though.]

I grew up in the Mie area, in Kansai. We kind of moved all over the place.

[Kansai is familiar, though Mie is not. She wonders if it's because her education is lacking or Mie was simply known by another name. Either or.] Your family are... merchants?

[Taking an old-fashioned guess. IDK what do people do in the mystical future?]

[Wizardry and superpowers, mostly.]

Builders, actually! Our family does a lot of construction work.

[Oh is that all. Back in my day we dismembered people the old-fashioned way! /shakes cane]

Building is truly valued work. I know architecture has changed greatly since my day. There are really tall buildings in your time, aren't there?

[ D8 ]

Really tall, yeah! Hundreds of meters tall, with floors stacked on floors... thank goodness we have elevators.

...elevators?

[Be careful of the rabbit hole, you could be here all day.]

Yeah! Like a machine that will carry you from floor to floor. It's faster and more direct than stairs.

Oh, I am familiar with those. Though not until I came here. [Dem space stations and whatnot are riddled with elevators.]

How much of the technology in this place is familiar to you?

Mmm... most of it is similar to what I know, or at least what exists somewhere in the world. The communicators are a lot like everyday phones, we've been to space but we can't travel to different galaxies... some people can teleport from place to place, but that's a superpower, not technology.

Ah. Another world with odd powers, then. If there's any such thing in my world, it's well hidden.

[She comes from a world where someone is immortal because they're stuffed with worms but look, that's one guy, okay.

...two.

Okay, three.]

Haha... calling them odd is odd, actually. It's more normal to have a Quirk than not, these days.

Really?

[This is a measuring glance. She didn't really get to see much of anyone else on the slaver raid--]

Do you possess one?

[It feels like a prying question, but if they're pretty normal where Ochako comes from...]

[Ochako barely bats an eye, if that helps her any on the prying part of the equation. She merely reaches down between them and touches the tips of her fingers to one of the random little baubles left on the floor, and when she lets go, it begins to float.]

Uh-huh. It's called Zero Gravity.

[Blink. She stares at the floating bauble for a moment, head tilting.

...huh. Lilly would have loved that.

She reaches out and touches a finger lightly to it, fascinated.] Can you make anything float?

Up to three tonnes, yeah. After that it gets way too heavy and I pass out.

Do you ever have call to lift that much?

[Please don't pass out she'll fret :c]

Um... a couple of times, I pushed myself back home. But that's how you get stronger, right? If you stay within your limits, you'll never grow.

That's right. Does that mean that if you continue to push yourself, you could lift more than that one day?

Well, I'd like to. I don't know if it's possible, but I'm gonna try.

[...that sounds risky but she's hardly in a position to talk.]

How old are you, Ochako-chan?

I'm fifteen.

[Is that important??]

[Not really. Just her own curiosity. Fifteen was coming of age in her time, so. She smiles.]

Is there something you wish to do in life with the application of that skill?

Uh-huh! I want to be a hero back home, and earn a living by rescuing people!

That's quite admirable. Nobody will be upset with you if you do?

[Edo era and its restrictions, man.]

Upset...? No, not really. Mom and dad weren't sure at first, but they just wanted to make sure it was something I really wanted.

[They live in very different times, basically.]

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