Whose Idea For A Practical Joke Was This. Thanks, Universe.

[hollystrike]

Who: Katie McCoy and you.
Broadcast: Most definitely.
Action: ...the planet Lyuku, if you come looking, I guess?
When: Sept 7

[The problem with the investigations Katie's been doing over the past week is they've delivered her answers that she's reasonably sure nobody else will have. Which dilemma she probably should have expected if worst came to worst, but she's never been particularly good at planning ahead. Probably why she'll never get promoted, back home. (You know, apart from her general lack of reliability, but...)

The other problem is rock formations and trees and landmasses in general have no human sense of time, so the terrified message this world gives her could happen next year. Or it could happen in half an hour. She can't get enough coherency for specifics.

The other other problem is that every time she's tried to impart information to the Fleet it's been largely missed amidst the chaff she has to surround it with. Mikleo picked up one point last time. Edna and Sam also know, but that is too small a pool of people, and two of them have issues being noticed by most everyone else. This time, she can't afford anyone to not understand how very important this is.

In short, this is going to suck.]

URGENT

Singing planet sent the dreams. [One.]

Planet is terrified [Two.]

What we saw is coming to ths planet in the near fture [...three. Usually a limit.]

marsva sent us here ergo it will happenw hile wer'e here
ratings

evactuate peope
back la



[We're sorry. The pooka you're trying to talk to has passed out. Leave a message?  She's... kind of in the middle of nowhere if anyone has a way to track her down, sprawled under some pretty huge and old trees.  A geas to lie sucks.]

((Seriously, she won't be back to respond for at least a day. So feel free to threadjack others in this post and make her warning not be in vain.))

Comments

[tempredmental]

Alright... let's go.

[Keith would make sure Sorey had a good grip on her. If he looked like he needed help, then Keith would offer. Otherwise, he'd run ahead to get the shuttle ready to move again.]

[brothersboots]

[Edna isn't worried about Sorey dropping Katie. He was pretty good with Rose that one time and he's always taken better care of others than himself.

But there is one thing she needs to correct.]

Sorey, her name is Katie, not Dorothy.

[monolike]

I know, [Sorey says simply as Keith jogs off ahead; the shuttle thankfully isn't far, but it'll still be a squeeze just to get the three of them in comfortably.]

[tsunergy]

When she's well again, we can find a way to confirm what she'd prefer.

[It's not as if asking her straight up would work, and she never appeared to mind Dorothy, but who knows if it's forced or not.]

[tempredmental]

[Keith climbed in, and started getting the shuttle started up and ready to go. It was definitely a tight squeeze now that they had three more people to load in. He frowned a bit.]

Can't you guys do that... light... merging... thing again?

[brothersboots]

[Edna cuts her eyes at Keith so that he can see that she's annoyed by the dumb human.]

My first priority was to make sure that Katie is fine. Your comfort ranks lower.

[But, now that she knows that Katie is going to be okay, Edna does orb back into Sorey. She doesn't want to be cramped into the shuttle any more than the humans.]

[tsunergy]

I think she's stable for now. If you notice any changes, say the word and we can try healing her again.

[Until then, yeah, doin the light merge. Have fun guys.]

[monolike]

[Even with the two of them inside of their vessel, it still takes some doing to get the three physical beings back into the shuttle without crushing anybody's limbs.] Don't mind Edna, [Sorey says as an aside, rearranging Katie so she's sprawled as comfortably as possible across their laps,] she's just worried.

[tempredmental]

[Keith gave Sorey a weak nod as he made sure they were securely settled in the shuttle.]

It's fine. I wasn't really thinking of anyone's comfort... more that it was just going to be easier to fit another person in here if there were less actual bodies.

[He shrugged a little, not even put out by it. If anything, Keith understood. He almost got annoyed in response because he had a similar way of dealing with stress, but he wasn't going to yell at Sorey to get to Edna. That was just dumb.

Of course, that didn't stop his tone from being somewhat grumbly and defensive about it as he kicked the little craft into gear and raced them back to Katie's ship.]