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Easy Comforts [OPEN]

How long was it since she was released? A week, maybe more? For Vivio, it felt like an eternity. While she missed home and everyone around, having her mothers and Reinforce around made things seem less empty.

Even if she was from their future.

But, at the moment, she wanted to put everything behind her and have some fun. To that end, she took over one of the Sensoriums and pretty much had it recreate a large playground: just because they're on a ship didn't mean she couldn't act like a child!

Letting out a giggle, she ran over to one of the swings and hopped on, pushing herself to start swinging.

(OoC: It's open to all, but the children here are more than welcome to come in and join Vivio! o/)

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Alessa regarded the boy. The look in his posture seemed to say that he was unused to all of these people crawling around, and though Alessa understood the need for quiet over noise, she was comfortable with the small amount of people here right now.

"Fletcher," she said. "Would you like to join me over by the swing set?"

Sherry came in a little later than she'd originally intended. It wasn't her fault she'd been distracted by the books Kelly had loaded onto her reader. She put it in her bag and brought it with her down to the senoriums. The gold pendant winked in the light where it lay against her chest.

"Did I miss anything good?" she asked Yuri as she walked up.

More and more...! How many more kids were there here? Then again, the more, the merrier!

"Hi, there!" Vivio called out, waving to Sherry. "Seems like everyone's coming out to play!" She couldn't help but giggle. "I'm Vivio Takamachi! What's your name?"

Vivio? It made Sherry raise her eyebrows (not that she could point out much in the way naming superiority - her parents had named her after either A. an alcoholic beverage or B. a variation on a French word for friendship. Sherry had her suspicions it was probably more likely A than B), but still, it would be polite to reply, rather than just stare blankly at the girl with mismatched eyes.

"Sherry Redfield-Kennedy. It's nice to meet you." She smiled, but it felt a little awkward and stiff. The little girl never had done very well with new people, after all.

Yuri released her grip on the monkey bars and trotted over to Sherry. "Vivio-chan is Ms. Nanoha's daughter. She doesn't know most of the fun stuff to do on the ship yet, and you're so great at exploring, so I thought you could show her sometime?" She'd certainly settled into her role as the group's ambassador, social glue, and...well, Yuri was The Chick.

"And I'm Pikachu!" said the electric mouse, who had up until now been content to watch the kids get along. In hindsight, Tag wouldn't be a fair game to play with them anyway. Still smiling warmly, Pikachu continued to hop up and down on his toes, wondering if anyone might want to play on the merry-go-round with him.

Alessa was still waiting for Fletcher's reply, but as long as the other girls were introducing themselves, she ought to as well. The thing to keep in mind, of course, was maintaining her human guise. The last thing she wanted was screaming when she reverted back to her true form.

"I am Alessa," she said to the girls and the yellow rat thing. "Nice to meet you. You are that security officer Leon's charge, aren't you?"

Fletcher made his way over to the swing set, nodding to Alessa, getting over his momentary distraction of everyone else talking and, well, the small yellow thing talking again. What was that?

Maybe he shouldn't have come in here. He felt distinctly out of place.

Alessa, while trying to make small talk with the girls, had kept an eye on the boy. That other one Vega seemed to be more forthright, but this one was shy. and she was curious.

"Is there something wrong?" Alessa said. "You're very quiet. Do big crowds make you uncomfortable?"

He nodded again. "I, um... I'm not good with people." That went doubly when he was on a transdimensional spaceship and his universe was destroyed, not that that had ever happened to him before.

Alessa laughed: it wasn't her usual, haughty laugh, but light, more gentle like she remembered Sharon's laugh. "I know exactly what you mean. I'm pretty bad with people too. Where I'm from was a pretty unfriendly place."

She swung herself a bit, looking at the others. "Most of them have trouble too, I can tell," she said, "But they're doing the best they can. I don't think any of our worlds have been too nice to us, do you?"

"I'm his daughter," Sherry corrected Alessa carefully. She didn't say it with the almost-hesitation she used to, because it wasn't a lie anymore. She raised her eyebrows a little higher at the talking yellow thing, even if it did look sort of familiar.

"I'd be happy to show you around; I know all of the best hiding spots, so it's difficult for even Roxie to find me if I don't want to be found." Not to mention her parents or anyone else she didn't feel like seeing. "Have you been to the Basilica yet? There's a really good hiding spot behind one of the popes." What? Religious sensitivity? P'shaw. That was for other people, not Sherry. Still, she didn't feel very comfortable.

And... and she needed to ask, though she did try to not make it as blunt as possible. "Vivio? What's wrong with your eyes? Complete heterochromia is pretty unique." Not weird, unique. Like a science project could be.

"So you are," Alessa said, unsure of what her relationship was to Leon. Now that she knew she was blood, that answered one question. As for the talking rat, well, it was, at least, cute, she knew that much.

"You know Roxie?" now she was definitely interested. Of the people on the ship, there were very few she was actually still curious about, Roxie and Shadow were right at the top of the list. "I'd love to see them, actually," Alessa said, giving a small smile. "I haven;t had a chance to explore all of the ship yet, let alone the city."

She turned to Vivio. Even SHE was curious about that answer.

"Ahhh...!" Vivio began, stammering. She didn't know what to say, really. What WAS there to say beyond...

...the truth.

"...well..." Vivio looked down. "...I wasn't born this way. I was created. You see, I'm the reincarnation of an ancient ruler known as the Saint Kaiser. I was created from her blood for one purpose: to activate an old weapon called the Saint's Cradle. But... that all changed when I met Nanoha-mama. She adopted me, saved me... gave me a chance to be normal. Or, well... normal as can be."

Now, the only thing she can do now... is wait.

Edited 2010-01-18 07:08 (UTC)

"Hmm." Was all Sherry said and gave Vivio a long, quizzical look. Curious. Unfortunately, it was here she took after her biological parents and not her new ones, she knew. She could feel Birkin eyes staring at, no, through Vivio and trying to figure that out. Still, at least Vivio's story had a parallel with her own.

She'd gotten a happy ending, too, even if it was a little atypical. Sherry shifted on her feet, as big as the words she used, she was still a little girl, "I see. Well, I guess that's a good a reason as any to have heterochromia." It wasn't like she'd been engineered to be a monster - even if that story was a little weird.

But what stone could she throw? She'd almost been turned into a monster herself. Sherry moved her eyes from Vivio and to Alessa, "So do Vega and Yuri; she our friend." She couldn't help it; she sounded a little possessive of that fact. Ours not Yours.

Fletcher supposed Vivio's story -- as bizarre as it was -- served as an answer to Alessa's question, and he avoided answering. He'd had his own share of bad experiences back home, some he wished he could forget, but he'd gladly take it all back. Everything was okay now, and it was so much better than having it all gone in the blink of an eye.

"Who's that?" Fletcher asked in a curious~~, bendy-time~~ sort of fashion.

"We're talking about Roxie," Alessa answered, interested a bit in Vivio's story. While she had at one point agreed with Kadaj about shaking things up on the ship, she knew well enough what to NOT tell him: these kids each had their own story to them, and some of them even had leverage in this place. Being Roxie's friends, she knew that Kadaj would have trouble anyway, but they were also intelligent, and Alessa quite frankly would not have allowed Kadaj's influence either. It was an interesting group, and they were varied: in truth, wasn't that an effect of the ship, bringing seemingly different kinds of people together?

Alessa laughed at Sherry's tone. "You sound like I'm trying to take her away! I wouldn't worry about that, though, trust me. People tend to avoid me in general, and Roxie only knows me a little. I'm sure she would find you all more fun."

Alessa knew enough the verdict of her interactions with the crew: small spurts, and then back to her place in Silent Hill. It wsa hardly the blueprints to lasting relationships.

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