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Indy did not like this ship. He did not like the meatiness. He did not like the tentacles that looked like snakes. He did not like the people who greeted him by yelling "Snake!" He did not like ~~green eggs and ham~~ the fact that he was wandering around hatless.

As much as he disliked the ship, he did like the fact that there was so much to explore on this ship. A quick look around the city revealed lost temples, old ruins, basically everything Indiana lives for.

Unfortunately, such explorations would have to wait. At least, explorations other than the weapons and possessions locker would have to wait. The good archaeologist was looking for something. Not some priceless artifact or unknown relic, he was looking for a hat. A simple, brown hat.

But it was Indy's most important possession, and he had to find it.

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He probably did not like the look of the tail twitching on the floor as its owner pawed through a pile of the room's contents, hoping to find something belonging to her teammates. But Jeka would be one to understand the tragedy of hatlessness. None of hers were here either, although she wasn't as attached to any of them as Indiana was to his.

"Grife," she swore under her breath as she tossed a baseball cap back onto the pile. "That's not Chuck's either."

Hrm, no, it's not in this pile either. God dammit, where is that hat? A frustrated Indy finishes looking through one pile and moves onto another. No, no luck in this one either. Moving along, Indy hears some muttering behind him, but pays no attention.

He spots Jeka. He freezes.

Jeka flicked her hair back over her shoulder and scowled at the pile in front of her. She spotted an adult humanoid staring at her out of the corner of her eye and turned to face him.

"Yes? Can I help you?"

Indy is just going to stand here a few more minutes paralyzed in fear. It's not everyday he comes face to face with a giant... snake... lady thing.

"Snake," is all he can manage to say.

"Orandian, actually," Jeka said with a heavy sigh. There was a reason that she had traveled in disguise before she'd joined the Legion, and this was an example of it. At least that "snake" wasn't intended as a xenophobic comment; she could tell that much from his facial expression alone.

"For the record, I am a member of ship security, and mean you no harm."

Those words? Indy did not hear them. His brain has pretty much turned to mush at the sight of Jeka, and cannot be held responsible for anything that comes out of his mouth. It's the irrational childhood fear talking.

"You're a snake. A giant snake."

Oh God, someone help him.

Jeka sighed again and resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She hadn't used to be quite this touchy about it, but ever since her transformation...

"Yes," she said. "I am. Does that bother you?"

She coiled her lower half up off of the floor as she used her flight ring to hover just a little off the floor. Then, she raised her hands to shoulder height and snapped her fingers as she slipped into the man's mind and replaced the shape he seemed to find so disturbing with a slightly modified version of the humanoid image she'd used when applying to the Legion. As far as the man would be able to tell, the snake lady would vanish and be replaced by a nineteen-year-old, pinkish-skinned girl with short white hair and a tiara, wearing the standard plantsuit. Just for show, she added a puff of pink and sparkly smoke.

"Better?"

Actually once he calms down...

"Yeah," he said with a half sigh of relief. It still bothered him that deep down she was a ~~GIANT SNAKE LADY~~ incredibly snake-like, but this would do for now.

"You're welcome," she said, tapping a toe of her illusion against the floor and filling in the appropriate sounds, to put him further at his ease.

"Jeka Wynzorr, Sensor," she introduced herself, planting a hand on her hip. They were definitely going to need to find some way to prevent him from freezing when they encountered each other in the future, since she didn't want to have to devote even a portion of her brain to casting this illusion during a fight.

"Were you looking for something?"

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