Sooo...Meet-y

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their number. After the recent revelation, many of them were even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Brainiac 5 and Sensor were set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

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[starlightace]

Nanoha had been mingling with the new people, trying her best to make them feel at home in the strange, alien and lonely environment - she remembered how confused and out-of-place she'd felt months before - but it really wasn't possible to introduce herself to everyone. People entered while she was busy talking to other people, and while she was doing her best to greet them all, it was a slightly Herculean task.

And then, through the sounds of the crowd and the chatter, she heard something and froze in her tracks. It was almost impossible to hear clearly, but it sounded like a synthetic male voice that Nanoha knew rather well.

No.

No, it couldn't be. Nanoha spun around in place, her eyes frantically scanning the crowd. No, no. She couldn't let herself get her hopes up like that, she shouldn't let herself hear things that weren't there, but--

--there. Against the dull green of the plantsuit, a slender figure in the crowd whose back was turned to her, but that head of long blonde hair was unmistakable, and she'd recognize it anywhere. Her heart was pounding furiously in her chest now as she squeezed her way through the crowd as quickly as she dared. Nanoha was afraid that it would have been an illusion, a trick of her mind that had projected her deepest hopes onto reality, and it wouldn't be...

...but it was.