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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-12-07 08:02 pm

You can check out anytime you'd like.. [Hotel Corona Mingle]

Who: The Fleet!
Broadcast: If you want
Action: Hotel Corona or Planet Ikke
When: December 7th onward

a wheel-shaped space station


[After the mystery and isolation of their last destination, the Marsiva seems determined to head to brighter, busier territory. After a long journey through remote, nebula-painted space, speeding along at a brisk pace for the Host ship, the Marsiva brings her Fleet to a sudden and prominent point of traffic.

It seems that the Fleet has happened upon some sort of vacation destination! Maybe Atroma thinks that the passengers deserve some rest and relaxation... or just wants to distract them with something huge and shiny.

Welcome to Hotel Corona! Feel free to enjoy yourselves and enjoy the sites! If a hotel resort isn't your thing, you can head on over to the nearby planet and explore it's icy wonders.

In order words: it's a mingle!! Everyone get in! ]

[>> Plot Post]
dancingmd: (bb oh?)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-21 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Why do you want to listen to so many people, if you don't have to?
axiomed: (Expected to be)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-21 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Because I can. And because I think, at the end of the day, we all want to be heard. We want someone to listen to us. And make us feel important.
dancingmd: (bb worried)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-22 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
But... who listens to you then, if you're always listening to everybody else?
axiomed: (Lost for words repeating constantly)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry. I have people of my own who listen.
dancingmd: (bb look down)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-22 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
That's good because you are very nice.

[There are a lot of adults who would - and did - ignore her or just have sent her off to the daycare or back to her room but he didn't.]

I'm glad you found me.
axiomed: (Tearing down the walls)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-22 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He finds himself missing Jean. His protege student. ]

As am I.
dancingmd: (bb grin)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-22 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She beams at him then takes his hand again, tugging him towards one of the other exhibits.]

Come on! There's so much to see!
axiomed: (By the end of the day)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Go ahead. I'm coming.
dancingmd: (bb gasp)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-23 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Permission granted, she runs up ahead to one of the telescopes and eagerly looks through the lens. After a few seconds, her expression falls. There's nothing to see but darkness!

Frowning, she takes a step back, examines the telescope, and soon sees the problem: it needs money. She huffs.]


They want money for everything!
axiomed: (We go blind when the stakes are high)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-23 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, hold on.

[ He digs through his pockets before handing her some change. ]
dancingmd: (bb worried)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-23 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She takes the change with a polite "thank you," but she's still frowning.]

It's not right, you know. Making people pay for educational stuff. Or clothes. And do you know, they even charge money for food? What if people don't have enough money? How are they supposed to eat?
axiomed: (When simply being was easy)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-24 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ It takes him a few seconds to parse that. ]

Every place is different. I imagine a moving hotel has to need money if they wish to go to other planets.
dancingmd: (bb oh?)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-24 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry Charles for the Federation child. Money is confusing.]

Why would they need money for that?
axiomed: (By the end of the day)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-24 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Every culture is different. And they believe in using money to make the society work.
dancingmd: (bb so serious)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-24 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Beverly considers this. She reads a lot about Starfleet and knows you're not supposed to judge other cultures. But she is, after all, still a child, and still has a child's black and white sense of the world.]

I still don't think it's fair.
axiomed: (By common sense)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-24 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
It might not fit our version of fairness, but it might work fairly in different societies. We can't always apply my own standards to everything. Keeping an open mind is part of Starfleet's creed, is it not?
dancingmd: (bb concentration)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-24 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[The downside of Charles knowing grown-up her: using her own self against her. Begrudgingly:]

Yes. [She flushes red.] Sometimes it's really, really hard though.
axiomed: (All good things now come from you)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-24 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ He smiles. ]

It is. We say we want to, but we all have certain behaviours in us that we often forget about - that can be hurtful. But we're all learning and remembering that we always will is a good place to start.
dancingmd: (bb intensity)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-24 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
You sound just like Nana. [Truly the highest praise she can give anyone.] She always says there's good in everyone, even Romulans and that we're more alike than we think.
axiomed: (The life I knew by heart)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-24 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
We always are.

[ Charles notices that easily. People all feel the same. ]
dancingmd: (bb grin)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-26 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She falls silent, studying the coin he gave her. It still doesn't sit right with her, but she can try to do better. After all, she's going to be in Starfleet so she's gotta get ready.

She puts the coin in the designated slot on the telescope, then tries looking through it again. This time, what she sees is breathtaking and she can't help but gasp.]


Mr. Charles! Come look!

[The telescope gets them up close and personal with the nebula they'd seen out the window earlier, in all its pinks and blues and purples.]
axiomed: (My state of mind)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-27 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's beautiful.

[ His awe colours his voice. No matter what his negative feelings of the Fleet might be, Charles does wholeheartedly love the experience of traveling to different worlds. ]
dancingmd: (bb intensity)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-28 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe she can't read minds, but she can still feel that this is something important to him, so she silently takes hold of his hand again.]
axiomed: (Expected to be)

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-12-28 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He smiles, squeezing her hand. ]

Go on. Take another look. I have more money if we need it.
dancingmd: (bb oh?)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2016-12-28 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[If there was any question as to how comfortable she feels around him, it's certainly answered now as she clambers over his legs - very carefully, of course, she doesn't want to do anything that might hurt him - to look through the telescope again. It's all so amazing, better than she ever imagined, spending almost all of her short life on only one planet. Of course, the most amazing of all is knowing that she'll get to see all sorts of places like this when she's grown up.

Alas, all too soon the lens falls dark again and she turns to give him a pleading look.]

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sounds good!

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