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[smartnass.livejournal.com]

It's hard to keep track of time on the ship, which makes it harder for Lyle to tell when he's overworking himself. He seems to have overdone it a bit at the moment, and he's escaped to a Sensorium to relax.

Normally, he looks for people to chat with to regain his strength, but a recent dream has put him in more of a nostalgic and thoughtful mood. Still, it's almost a surprise to him when he enters the room and switches it to a rocky, barren landscape. His strongest memories of this place were a long, long time ago.

It does make sense. Being sent to Durla after everything that'd happened had turned out to be a blessing. He had people to talk to and new philosophies to learn, and he also had the surface. It was barren of any buildings and completely open to the sky--the clearest sky he'd seen on any planet.

He lies back and stargazes, but it's not long before he begins to feel that it's too easy to think here. Lyle sits up and begins to dust himself off, debating where else to go.

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[pocketloli.livejournal.com]

Rein was floating towards the Sensoriums carrying a clipboard twice her size when she noticed the beautiful sky and the young man standing there. Putting it under her arm, she waved. "Hello!"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Lyle looks down and finds her fairly quickly. He's used to tiny people. "Sorry, did you need the room?"

[pocketloli.livejournal.com]

"Oh no, I was just headed down the hall when I wandered in," giggled Rein as she floated up to Lyle's face and bowed. "I'm Reinforce, but you can call me Rein. It's very nice to meet you desu~!"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle smiles a little at her enthusiasm. "Good to meet you too. Does your name have something to do with your abilities? I'm Invisible Kid, or you can call me Lyle."

[pocketloli.livejournal.com]

Rein nodded. "Very nice to meet you Lyle-san!" and she bowed.

Giggling she added, "Yep desu. I'm what you call a Intelligent Device. I help Hayate, my master and friend, to channel and organize her magical spells during combat. She's not very good at multitasking you see."

[morphitudinous]

That vibrant sky is one of the most awe-inspiring sights Billy has seen in quite a while. Even knowing that the environment is a mere simulation, he also knows that the memory had to come from somewhere. Or someone, to be precise.

Cautiously keeping an eye out for the other person who must be here, Billy sinks to sit on the ground and turns his head skyward. He'll apologize for intruding, of course, but this sight needs to be seen. "I might've taken up stargazing if I could find views this spectacular at home," he reminisces.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

It's quiet here, and Lyle easily hears Billy. He approaches him, even his soft footsteps fairly noticeable on the rock.

"We can't even see the stars at home," says Lyle, "There's always the view from space.

"Still, it's different when it's a real sky."

[morphitudinous]

Right on cue, there's the originator of this illusion. Billy scrambles to his feet, ready to run at a moment's notice. Some people could be quite territorial. "I'm sorry about the intrusion. I'll leave immediately if you want me to. But if you don't mind answering, where are we viewing the sky from?"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle smiles reassuringly. He's not used to people being afraid of him. "It's fine, don't worry about it."

He looks up. "This is Durla. I have a friend from here."

[morphitudinous]

"Durla," he repeats, looking around one more time. "It reminded me of home somewhat. Is your friend a crew member here?"

[indigoblueberry.livejournal.com]

Indigo steps into the Sensoriums, hoping for a moment of bowling for herself, and pauses at the scenery that already exists. Her face falls for a moment, but she rallies and looks up at the skies. The star patterns don't match anything she's familiar with, they're obviously not on Earth.

How annoying.

When Lyle sits up, her head snaps over to his direction. She floats up, heading in his direction slowly, and clears her throat. "Good day. Am I interrupting you?"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle stands, running a hand through his hair.

"No, I'm done." He nods at her, but turns and gives the scenery a long last look. There's an obvious something--wistfulness?--in his gaze.

[indigoblueberry.livejournal.com]

She lands, crossing her arms, and casts her gaze across the rocky landscape. It's not a bad looking place, she decides. Just not Earth.

Indigo catches his look and raises an eyebrow. "This place is important to you." It's not a question.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't have called it up otherwise." Lyle says, shrugging. "Really, it's just a nice place to think."

True, but also a bit of a lie.

[indigoblueberry.livejournal.com]

She can tell it's not the whole truth, his heartrate can give her enough clues there. Indigo glances up at the sky again and frowns. "It's not Earth. None of the constellations match my databases." Her head swivels down to look at him again. "Where are we?"

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

It's at that moment that Bart crashes through the doors of the Sensorium.

"OhheyIdidn'tknowsomeonewasinhereYOU!" He definitely recognized that guy. He was a Legionnaire! He could... do something awesome? Bart couldn't remember which one he was.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle steps backwards from shock, but it seems it's just someone noisy, not dangerous.

Wait.

He recognizes that blur.

Impulse is a bit hard to forget even if you've barely met him, and he's a bit infamous notorious well-known among Legionnaires. Jenni talked about her cousin enthusiastically, and the others didn't seem to want to talk about him at all.

"Impulse?" Hadn't he had a different costume last time?

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Yeah!" He recognized him! Grife, now Bart had to figure out which Legionnaire this guy was. "You're.... um, Arm-Fall-Off-Boy?" The arms seemed suspiciously well attached, though. Maybe it was just because of the plant suit. Or superglue.

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle winces. That's worse than being called Headband Lad.

"Invisible Kid. I'm Invisible Kid."

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Ohhhhhh, right." Bart nodded vigorously. "Yeah, I would have totally guessed that first, but I can see you."

[feelnothinatall.livejournal.com]

Ahava smiled as Lyle sat up. "Sorry," she said easily, "I got caught up looking at the sky. This is Durla, isn't it?"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

Lyle is surprised--not by her presence, but that she recognizes Durla.

"Yes. Have you been there?"

[feelnothinatall.livejournal.com]

"Once or twice," Ahava said. "Mostly on work related trips, so I didn't get much of a chance to take in the scenery. What about yourself? Work for the Legion?"

[smartnass.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Partially true. He'd been to Durla long before he joined the Legion, but he isn't supposed to talk about those times. "It didn't bother you?"

When Cham came to join the Legion, the Legion had attacked him. There has been a lot of progress, but still.

[feelnothinatall.livejournal.com]

Ahava shrugged. "Not really. We were mostly working in some out of the way, isolated places. Essentially they left us alone if we did the same."

She smiled and gave a little chuckle. "Besides, once I get caught up in a new project, I tend to forget everything else."