Newbie Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

Meet n' Greet, smell my feet, gimme something good to eat! Unfortunately, the newbie meet and greet takes place the same time the command staff is congregating, so they might be a little late to the party.

But the crew is there to welcome the newcomers and explain their situation. At the end of the milling and spilling about, the command staff is going to start a general meeting to apprise everyone of their situation and discuss their next course of action:

Getting off the damn ship.

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"It's a city in Illinois," Roxie says, with a gently absent tone that suggets she's not really expecting Sheik to know what Illinois is. "Population four million."

After a moment's awkward pause, she sticks out a small hand at him.

[redeyes_andblue]

Nope, the name doesn't mean a thing to him - and a city with a population of four million? Castle Town has barely a thousand!

A slight hesitation, and Sheik reaches out cautiously to shake her hand.

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Roxie has a disturbingly firm handshake for such a young girl. But maybe this is how she overcompensates for being unsure about somebody?

[redeyes_andblue]

...It is a little disturbing, actually. As well as the entire general sense of her.

"What is your name?" he finally asks.

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"I'm Roxie," she says. "What's yours?"

[redeyes_andblue]

"Sheik," he smiles faintly, "I won't say it's a pleasure to meet you, considering the circumstances." Once again, he glances around the room like he's looking for someone - not just cut off from Hyrule, then, but cut off from...

[I know. He may be here...]

"What can you tell me about this place, Roxie?" he asks her.

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Something twists a little in Roxie's face—just as Zelda speaks to Sheik, even...

"It's an extremely large living starship," she says, watching Sheik's face for any signs of recognition (or non) at the last word.

[redeyes_andblue]

"A living... what?" Sheik frowns. "What is a starship?"

He's seen ships before, but they were rather firmly floating on water. And the stars are familiar points of light in the sky. How can there be a ship in the sky?

[Have you ever heard of anything like this?]

[A ship in the stars? Nothing remotely like it.]

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"It's a vessel that travels in interplanetary space." Roxie turns a little to look at the large observation windows. "Planets orbit stars, which move in formations called galaxies. But all the distances in-between are mostly empty."

[redeyes_andblue]

Well done, you've just brought someone from the equivalent of the Dark Ages into the Enlightenment.

"Planets orbit stars?" he blinks, and Zelda gives a little shriek of excitement. (He winces fractionally.)

[That could work! The sun is a star like the ones we see in the sky, and we go around it, not it around us, and there are countless other worlds around the other stars, and...]

Sheik is only half-listening - instead, he's staring out the windows with some fascination. They're up in the sky, amongst the stars? And Hyrule is merely one small land on one planet around one star... It's faintly mindboggling, and he's never felt so insignificant. Which takes some doing, consider he's spent lives simply being the pawn of the Royal Family.

Gazing out the window (and wincing a little at the sheer brightness), he gestures at the bright display and asks softly, "What is that, then?"


((OOC: Sorry about the double-post.))

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"That's... space," Roxie says with a little bit of a shrug. "Sort of. I think we're traveling superliminally at least sometimes."

Her gaze is drifting somewhere up and behind Sheik's left ear.

[redeyes_andblue]

"Superlim... no, never mind, I am not sure I want to know," Sheik says with a weak smile. This is well outside his area of experience; even Zelda seems somewhat lost.

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"Faster than light," Roxie offers. "It's completely impossible, but apparently it's decided to happen anyway."

[redeyes_andblue]

He smiles faintly, even if he's not sure why things aren't supposed to go faster than light. "I'm used to the impossible. At least that is familiar."

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That... provokes a little bit of a smile from Roxie, too.

"By all the rules of physics I know, to speed something up to the speed of light would take an infinite amount of energy, so getting past it would take more than infinity, and that's just..." She makes a kind of 'this place is ridiculous' look.

[redeyes_andblue]

Sheik isn't sure what's worse - entirely new worlds with entirely unfamiliar laws of science that are nonetheless getting rather broken, or the fact that Zelda is actually managing to follow it.

[That makes sense - to move anything, you need to apply some energy - like shooting an arrow. The more energy you put in, the faster and further it goes. So to move anything near the speed of light - which I shall presume is very fast indeed - you would need vast amounts of energy, even more than, say, the energy it would take to control the Triforce, which means that this place must have unimaginably huge amounts of it, and --]

The problem with Zelda being a disembodied presence in his head, Sheik decides ruefully, is that no lungs means she doesn't have to stop to draw breath.

Tuning her out, he nods distractedly at Roxie. "I see," Sheik murmurs in a way that suggests he actually doesn't.

Hey, he's only just found out that planets go around suns, not vice versa.