Time for the 'meat' and greet

[cityship]

[NOTE: This takes place DURING the holiday plot. If your character is involved in that, then they're still on the surface and not on the ship at this time.]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are 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.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies. The mission is still going on, so if your character is offship, they won't be around for this.]

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[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

"That's quite fascinating," she says vaguely, continuing to stare at him with those protuberant eyes, not feeling the burning need to say anything.

The silence drags. It is quite silent. And filled with staring.

[governorkang]

...okay, the staring was annoying at first. Now, it's giving him the willies. Kang's wings rustle, and he tilts his head to one side slightly, "...is there anything I can help you with, ma'am?"

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

She smiles, the expression vague, a blonde curl falling in her face as she continues to gaze up at him.

"Oh, no, I'm quite fine, thank you. How are you?"

[governorkang]

Another wing rustle, accompanied by some quiet scale-clicking. Unease obvious in his voice, Kang hesitated for a moment, then offered his hand, "I'm... fine, ma'am. What is your name?"

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

She looks down, head tilting the other way to get a good look at his hand. Not hesitating for a moment, she takes it, but not for shaking purposes - fingers gentle, she taps at the appendage, 'hmm'ing at random intervals, blinking rarely.

If he's expecting a reciprocation of the introduction thing, he's going to have to poke her a bit. Her magizoologist side is kicked into high gear right now, which means she won't be surfacing for a while unassisted.

[governorkang]

Kang's hand was covered in scars. Most of them were on the palm, but there were a few on two of his fingers that suggested that he'd nearly lost them once. The particular spot she tapped at, he didn't even feel, but he saw it, and drew his hand back, confused.

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

She blinks at the sudden loss of a large hand in hers, straightening to peer up at him again. She barely fights off the urge to tug him down by one of his horns and tap at those, too...

"You've done a lot of fighting," she intones, a statement that probably should have been a question phrased as a blunt assertion. Who was she to worry about social customs, though? She certainly hadn't bothered before now.

[governorkang]

"I was a soldier for most of my life," Kang edged away slightly, the look she'd given his horns making him very uncomfortable. What was with this girl?

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

"Fighting is admirable, I suppose," she says vaguely, eyes finally wandering away from him.

Don't worry, Kang. There's nothing notably wrong with her. That we know of.

[governorkang]

Kang let out a breath he didn't even know he'd been holding in when she looked elsewhere.

Hello, awkward silence.

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

Oh, is it awkward?

Luna hasn't noticed.

[governorkang]

Very awkward. Those wings rustle, breaking the silence, and his voice followed.

"...well, it was a pleasure to meet you, ma'am, but I need to see if I can find my family."

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

She smiles rather blandly.

"I hope you have luck with that. I haven't found any of my friends yet, and it's rather lonely without them," she says pleasantly, staring to blink fairly regularly now that she's on vaguely familiar turf. She's had this conversation a lot.