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[10_20_15_5_50]

---right?

[If the tone is any indication, that one word wasn’t directed at anyone---it was the sort of mutter manuals muffle. What follows is livelier, as the young woman speaking seems hopeful.]

Right. I don’t want to be a bother, but I was wondering if there’s anyone available to give the ten-cent tour…. and if there’s anyone who would want to. Since ah, I’m not the only new arrival, and there’s sort of a lot to see, I figured I’d ask. If you’re new too, okay, awesome, we can explore together. If you’re not new and you want to show off your stomping grounds, I’ll ooh and ahh appreciatively. Promise. And I’ll owe you one.

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[fractalize]

That's....not for another twenty years.

[ Uh. Yeah. ]

That makes sense.

But that also sounds like...fun. Like a...constant adventure. I'd love to do that, one day. Just travel.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Yeah...? The, ah, really wild thing is it's way past twenty years past from my... present. It's 2014, as far as I know.

[Yeah. Yeah, 'uh. yeah.' is about it.]

How has your own adaptation to all of...this been?

It has been fun. The places I've lived are all very different, even if the people aren't so different from place to place. Canada's divided into thirteen areas; I'd like to spend some time in all of them.

[fractalize]

[ ....2014. WELP. ]

It's been a little bit rocky, so far...but I've been here before. This world...isn't new to me. I've been here before, we...were here before. It's difficult to explain.

[ Nodding, she continues. ]

Sounds like an amiable goal.

[10_20_15_5_50]

I won't pressure you to, then; I'll just be open to any advice.

Four down; nine to go. I hope I'll hit them someday... but having the here-and-now to handle, I guess we should get going.

[fractalize]

Sadly, I don't think my advice will be very withstanding; this place was completely different before....it was like a barren wasteland.

[ She chuckles, taking a few steps forward as a beginning. ]

We should, you won't get there any quicker by just gabbing with me.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Really? I'll take information as happily as any advice! And maybe be a little more likely to actually act on it.

[She grins, doubting that the tendency to very selectively accept advice has changed at all through human history.]

But for the talk, I'll be getting there in better spirits.

[Still, she nods and starts for the apartments alongside Elsa. Within a few steps at a regular walking pace---which, for Sam, is a little slow---it's apparent that she favours her left leg a little, despite no noticeable discomfort.]

[fractalize]

Well....it was... [ How u say. ]

It was strange. Different, I suppose. Almost like it was uninhabited. Imagine a flat plain, a plain untouched by life. Then, suddenly, there's about a hundred or so people plucked from all different places, all different universes. Just there, plopped down there with no frame of reference.

We sort of made do with what we had; here though....Here is so much different. Everything has happened so fast, so quickly, that it's...it's all different. Unrecognizable. I didn't believe them when they told me this was the same Cybertron.

[10_20_15_5_50]

That sounds like it would've been a struggle and a half...

[Sam glances over, sympathetic, but also impressed by the tone Elsa takes in talking about what was. It sounds like she dealt with it well.]

I've got to admit, I've found myself floored by the creature comforts available. Never would've expected being marooned could be this comfortable, let alone on an alien planet.