driftfleet | Four Men and a Little Lady???

[Axel can be found standing in the doorway to quarters, a hand on his chin and the other on his hip. The room is a bit bigger now that they've ranked up one, but though the bunk beds are gone it's still all one room. He knows the new crew member is a girl, and she seems pretty young, too, and somehow the idea of a little girl sleeping in a room with a bunch of grown men is just... weird. There's got to be a solution for this, right? Solas transferred ships, so he can't even make use of the couch, now.

[First they get attacked, then there's no gravity, and now this. Never a dull moment around this place...]

[if anyone is passing by the engine room, they will hear... weird clanging noises? Colette has wasted no time in getting to work, and once she was able to find a tie to pull back her hair, she headed straight to the center of the ship! And... well, the results are something to behold]

So the cucumber pipe goes.. ah-- here?

Ah! [there is a loud clanging as something is being dropped on the ground, and then a solid 'thump'. Yep, she just tried to sit up too quickly and slammed her head into the broken mahinery]

Ow-- huh? [but a second later beeping noises ring out and some machinery whirs back to life. Whatever she hit... it seems to be working now?] Wow... I really did it! [she says it like she can't quite believe it herself. F-Feel free to have your characters pop their head in the engine room at any point in this...comedy of errors.]

Edited 2015-04-12 08:17 (UTC)

[When Colette took a quick gander around the ship, her exploration eventually led her to the crew quarters. But she pauses when she sees someone standing in the doorway. Were they thinking about something? Curious, but not wanting to appear too suddenly, she approaches slowly]

Hello? Are you busy? [he could be staring at the most IMPORTANT THING IN THE UNIVERSE!!! she's not sure, but wants to err on the side of politeness]

[He turns when a voice pipes up from the hallway, and his eyebrows shoot up.]

Oh! Hey there, newbie. It's Colette, right? [He gestures vaguely with one hand.] I saw you on the network, when you first arrived.

Nah, not really. [He glances back into the room and frowns a bit.] Just contemplating sleeping arrangements, is all. I'm Axel, I'm the captain; what'cha need?

Yes, that's me! [oh man, when she hears that he's the captain she stands up straighter and tries to look.... cool? Idk.]

It's really nice to meet you, Axel. I didn't need anything, I was just looking around the ship. [and as she kind of leans to the side so she can peer into the dorm room, it seems that he had just been blocking her way, haha. But anyways, her eyes light up at the room]

Is this where we sleep? Wow, we have our own beds and everything! [bed is a... generous term]

... You can use your head to make things work that way too?

[ Hello new person on the ship, Asteffiel is just going to peek around the door at her. ]

[ Ladon is on his way back to the crew quarters to put some stuff in his locker when he hears some loud banging coming from the engine room. At first it's not surprising, Axel's engineer friends have been on and off the ship a lot since they docked, but then he hears a young woman's voice and that's definitely different. Cue protective instincts.

He leans in to the little room, looking concerned. ]

Everythin' all right in here? Heard an 'ow.'

[When someone is fixing the bowels of the vessel you have to live on, the last two words you want to hear in conjunction with one another are 'cucumber' and 'pipe'. It's even enough for make Fenris investigate. ]

I really hope you're our new engineer. Otherwise, if Axel sees this, he might have a stroke.

[At least Fenris is good enough to sleep on the floor of the armory. Mostly because he doesn't like sleeping near other people, but still. That floor is pretty uncomfortable, and a young girl is yet another problem again. He'll glance over as he's wandering past.]

Seems we'll be in need of an upgrade.

[ The smell of cigarettes with a hint of campfire and aftershave (new stuff he bought at the waystation, it's close enough to what he uses back home) precedes him. But soon Ladon is standing nearby, his own arms crossed and lips pursed as his thoughts head down the same track. ]

How much we need t'get rooms? Or at least a room. For the li'l lady.

[ He can't expect her to lodge up with a bunch of men. It's improper on so many levels, and disrespectful in others. ]

I can show you around if you want. I mean it's not real big, but I kept getting lost the first few days I was here.

[He frowns at the room, then rubs the back of his neck.]

Well, yeah, everybody gets their own bed, if you can call it that, but... I thought it was a little weird for a girl to sleep in the same room with a bunch of men. We're gonna get another upgrade, so we all get our own rooms, but that won't happen til next month, unfortunately. So I was trying to figure out if we could move one of the beds someplace so you'd have a little more privacy...

No kidding. [He gives Fenris a bit of a frown.] I was planning to upgrade again anyway, but now I wish there was a way to expedite it.

[He glances over his shoulder and nods in greeting to Ladon, then turns his eyes back to the problematic room.]

It'll take two payments, it always does, to get an upgrade. Asteffiel and I split it before so we could get rid of the bunk beds, so if we do that one more time we'll get private rooms to ourselves. It won't be 'til next month, though, so I'm wondering what to do 'til then. Since Solas transferred, we lost the civilian room, so we don't even have a couch anymore.

Don't mind... chippin' in for that. [ While spending more money does give him a queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach, he tells himself it's not his real money back in Nieve. No reason to hoard it. Really.

After all, it's necessary. Totally and completely, now that there's a girl on board. Plus, well. He's had a few nervous mornings where he's woke up and prayed his tail didn't make a surprise appearance in the night. ]

I can, er. Try sleepin' in one of the shuttles. Been meanin' to get familiar with 'em anyway.

I doubt sending Atroma a threatening message will do any good in that regard.

[So rude, not being around to threaten death to. ]

Perhaps you could hang up a curtain for her?

[And here comes River, in the corridors. She finally settles down in the cargo hold.

She smiles.]

They are very loud here. Sometimes it's sweet and sometimes it hurts. And...

[She stops, and she turns, like the heard something.]

Sparrows with wings clipped, tongues cut out.

[oh! She quickly stumbles out from under the machine that she was messing with, and nods]

Yes! I think so? I'm still trying to understand this new information... but at least intuition seems to be helping. [there's a slight implied question mark at the end]

Yes, I'm sorry! [uh oh, she hears his footsteps before he arrives, but when he sounds concerned, she seems to be tripping over herself to prove that she's okay]

And I didn't break anything... [Colette, no one said that you did] I think I fixed it! A little, at least.

[idk Fenris, if you think about it there are way worse words.

"On fire", "Falling apart", "where did those velocipedes come from"

just spit-balling ideas]

Oh, yes that's me! I'm sorry. [she inches out from under the machinery where she's working and bows her head apologetically] I really wanted to start working right away, so I haven't said hello to everyone yet...

Really? Thank you! That would be wonderful. [and she giggles sympathetically at his story. Yeah... she's kind of worried that she'll have the same problem. Oh... and then she's caught of guard by his next statements, but... nods? Slowly]

Oh, um... [she hadn't even thought about it what way] Before I came here, I was with a group that was travelling together. We had a few men with us, but we all slept near each other. So... I really don't mind! But I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable, so I can sleep somewhere else?

[she doesn't know where yet, but she'll figure something out. Set up a sick hammock in the engine room]

It looks like it's working?

[ Asteffiel jumps in place. ]

There's no flying about when you don't want to...

[People have been in and out of the ship a lot while it's been docked at the way station, and it's been hard to keep track of who's coming and going. When he sees someone in the cargo hold, he thinks for a moment it's Sokka, or maybe Robin, stopping by to check on the machinery in Engineering. He pauses when he realizes it's not them, but he recognizes her and cants his head a little, giving a casual wave. What's that about sparrows? He's pretty sure there's no birds in space.]

Hey, kiddo. River, right? You looking for somebody?

[She crouches down, sinking against the floor.]

She hears a thread of an ache, there's so much blood. The flowers are rotting in the vases. There's sweet but also fire and it all tangles together.

[He waves his hands.]

Er-- That's not quite what I meant. I just thought you might be uncomfortable. I'm not kicking you out or anything. [He's a little abashed now.] I guess if it's not a big deal to you, I mean... I don't mind. [He's not quite sure what to make of girls, but mostly because the only exposure he's really had to any on a daily basis was Larxene. And Larxene was grade-A batshit insane.

[He makes a beckoning gesture.]

C'mon, I'll give ya the grand tour. It's a little messy right now, since we lost gravity for a while. Some of Asteffiel's plants came unpotted and got dirt all over the place.

Yeah, somehow I don't think a strongly-worded letter will get me too far.

[He rubs his chin.] There's a thought. We've got some extra blankets now that we got the upgrade, maybe one'a those'll work.

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