All aboard the SS Mingle

[helmsplitter]

Who: SS Caprine crew and friends
Broadcast: Depends on the thread
Action: SS Caprine
When: The month of June

[With some people gone and new people arriving, it's time for a Caprine mingle. Friends of the Caprine, those who want to come see their cargo-hold garden, or people who want to come share stories of McCoy - all and any are welcome.]

Comments

cargo.....

[sylphid]

[It's not actually her walking in then, but finally saying something after she's watched him for a few minutes. This is kinda what she does.]

You missed a little in the upper left.

[If he turns to look, he'll find a short, silver haired teenage girl atop a pile of crates overlooking his activities with vague interest.]

w(;A;w) AHHHH

[helmsplitter]

[He has to admit, it's nice to be in actual dirt again. As much as a sword feels comfortable around metal, the fact that he's constantly surrounded by--

HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL SOMEONE HE DOESN'T KNOW JUST TALKED TO HIM

Doudanuki jumps, knocking over the garden supplies he had sitting out, and spins around, brandishing his pruning shears like a weapon.

Except it's just a teenaged girl sitting on the crates so??? Maybe still a threat??

Probably still a threat.]

Who the hell are you and why're you on my ship?!

[sylphid]

[Fie sighs heavily, moving forward off the crates with her feet landing lightly on the bay floor. Ignoring the shears being pointed at her, the newcomer walks right by him to begin retrieving the gardening tools. The reply she gives is casual and unconcerned with whatever he may think.]

I figured out this wasn't the ship I wanted to be on about forty minutes ago, but why not hang out a little? Name's Fie.

[helmsplitter]

[You know.

Once upon a time, having a Doudanuki blade pointed at you was actually scary. He struck fear into men on the battlefield for how proficient he was at killing them.

And now here's a tiny teenager just waltzing right on by like it ain't no thing.

Doudanuki sighed and lowered the shears - they probably ruined his scary demeanor anyway.]

Doudanuki Masakuni. Have you been sittin' there for the entire forty minutes?

[sylphid]

More like the last fifteen I think.

[The tools all back in place (sans shears), she joins him at the bed of dirt, promptly sticking her hands in and rearranging some of it at the base of a few plants.]

Here, you needed more soil around this one.

[helmsplitter]

[Well, if she's going to be helpful...Even if it's still kind of creepy that she sat there watching him for fifteen minutes without saying anything.

Damn, Kai, you're security officer. Where the hell were you??]

Uh, thanks. ...I think.

[Doudanuki shuffles slightly to the side away from Fie and drops down to balance on the balls of his feet again. He was busy pruning away dead leaves to mix into the soil when she showed up, so might as well go back to that.]

You do a lot of farming?

[sylphid]

Mm.

[She's concentrating on evening out the soil where she needs to, so her acknowledgment of the potential thank you is minimal. Fie grabs the trowel to assist in the task.]

I was in the gardening club at school. We mainly grew flowers, but I learned a little more than that.

[helmsplitter]

...Huh, so they got clubs for that now?

[Modern society, you are weird as heck during peacetime.]

What'd you need the flowers for? There some kind of flower shortage in the world?

[sylphid]

[Fie stops what she's doing and just stares at him.]

[helmsplitter]

[And he's going to stare right back because ANSWER MY QUESTION?? IT'S A LEGIT QUESTION OKAY. A REAL, LEGIT QUESTION AND HE NEEDS TO KNOW.]