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.

Comments

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"For the most part of a decade, I remained alone," she said quietly. "I built my own dew traps to collect moisture, I caught what I could find to eat, I prepared my own food, and meager as the existence was, I survived. There were times in which I had no water, no food, no comfort, but the desert provides these in plants, in caves, in the kill of a creature that might ease the hunger, tame the thirst. In moments where I thought this desert world might claim me, I kept moving and refused to die."

She glanced up at him, her curl of a smile wry.

"I did not know what rain was until recently and before I became acclimated, the humidity of the place made me ill. There is no open water on my planet, none at all. I was lucky and found a small underground cache, enough for myself and none other. Had I not found it after seeing it in a prescient dream, I should not be here at all. After my first year, that is when I found it, and the cave became my home. It was day to day survival still, but I did not lack water, and I rode the great sandworm, Shai-Hulud if I had a distance to travel. I traded my water for food supplies when I passed the great Fremen Sietches if it was absolutely necessary."

She squeezed her fingers against his wrist gently.

"It is possible to survive anywhere, you just need to want it greatly. It is living that is difficult, that and retaining your own sanity. Contact helps and anchors you. Talking, too." She let out a breath of a sigh and the corners of her eyes crinkled slightly. "As for peace, Gaius Baltar, you must cling to it in the moments you find it. You must cling hard and long and when it passes, you will hold to the last wisps of it until it finds you again. This is all that can be done."

[toaster-lover.livejournal.com]

"Extraordinary," Gaius said, shaking his head in amazement. "Extraordinary what people are capable of in dire situations." For both good and ill, he reminded himself. "But I agree that it's a matter of willpower." And pure dumb luck.

He could feel Six's eyes on the back of his head. She was walking behind them, glaring at him, and he knew why, knew the words she wanted him to say: that they survived because God willed it so.

Well, he wasn't feeling especially happy with God right now. Or her, for that matter, because he was certain that comment about 'broadcasting' had something to do with her in the first place.

"And I certainly agree with the importance of contact," he said, with a little smile thrown her way, merely in the hopes of irking Six. "Thank you, by the way, for the kind welcome."

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"You are most welcome," she said, arching her eyebrows slightly. "This day is difficult enough without a what kindness I have to offer those who arrive. For some, this transition my quite possibly be a great trauma indeed. Adapting to the wash of new information and circumstances does not need to be overwhelming. My advice is to not rush, to walk the corridors, to pick out your quarters, to get a feel for the ship and what she has to offer. If this is too much all at once, I advise proper rest and do so until you cannot sleep any longer. It will reorient you."

There, again, was the tug of a smile.

"If you have need of me, I am easily located and will probably be training with Obi-Wan Kenobi if I am not in meditation here or in the city. You will find most eager to direct you should you become lost, but exploring has always been what puts the layout in my own mind. I think it comes from being nomadic much of my life."

[toaster-lover.livejournal.com]

"Obi-Wan," he repeated, committing as much to memory. "Very well." They'd reach the edges of the group, and he glanced back, trying to spot the Captain among the crowd.

"I think I'll take a quick jot about for the time being, nothing too far. I promised someone I would meet them back here, after everyone has dispersed." He stopped, squeezing his hand over hers again.

"Those devices they provided to us seemed like communication devices, is that correct? Could I contact you on that?" he asked. It would make things much easier, than him trying to muck about locating some one named Obi-Wan.

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"Yes, you may contact me using such a device," she said with a bright flash of a grin and a quick, gentle hug. "I shall be prompt upon answering, as is my custom. I wish you well in your wandering, Gaius Baltar, and welcome once again to this place. I am pleased to have met you."

Arha withdrew to crowd wander and left Gaius Baltar with as much comfort and peace as she could give the man. This place was not so terrible as it was strange and she had a feeling he would adapt well enough. Arha knew anything was truly possible upon a ship such as this. After all, she was Jed-Eye, was she not? Stranger things were bound to happen.