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Jeckie found herself standing in the Sensoriums just a few moments after her communique with Nura. There was something of a pleasant smile on her face - a first, really, for anyone who might have had to deal with her since she'd popped. The Sensorium was made up to look like Jeckie's bedchambers at the Legion headquarters, all rich fabrics and bold hues of violet and blue shot through with silver and gold. She was staring out the window, knowing full well that it didn't exist, but unable to give herself the pleasure of being able to see an illusion of Brin Londo swooping around the sky outside. She bade the illusion to die a moment later and then took a seat on her chaise longue, awaiting the one woman here who was likely the closest thing that Jeckie had to a friend aboard this place.

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Nura zooms into the sensoriums, a very happy, bright disposition to her features. Compared to her happiness in the past on the ship, nothing compares to the happiness she feels now. She has a teammate on the ship - of her Legion!

She takes a minute to admire the setting. No doubt, the Princess has quite good taste in color and fabrics, and the fact that it is a replica of the Princess's old home in the upper section of the Metropolis. She doesn't make any sign to that she noticed this - only smiles warmly and happily to the Princess.

"Princess, it is so good to see you!" She comes forward, pauses, and then bows politely. "I zoomed over lightquick."

Jeckie turned away from the window, her smile brightening a little bit. Until recently, Jeckie would more than likely have shown Nura the same cold aloofness that she showed everyone else, but things were very different now.

All Jeckie had was Nura.

"Nura." She still has trouble with that being warm thing, though. Somehow, it only comes naturally when she's with Brin. "Please, you don't need to bow to me. We're...friends." She moves to embrace the other woman.

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"Yes, but it is proper etiquette to bow to royalty." She has her manners, after all, and it would be a shame to not be able to use them. She straightens up and then moves towards the Princess and wraps her arms around her.

"You have no idea how happy I am that you are here - in that I am sorry that we were both taken from our dimension against our will."

That earns Nura a bigger smile and Jeckie returns the hug as warmly as she can manage. "As am I," she replies. "It was bad enough that Orando..." Jeckie shakes her head. "But to think that everything the Legion tried to hard to protect is gone...and that just the two of us remain..." Jeckie looks out the window again, and the faces of their fellow Legionnaires appear in it's reflective surface for a moment. "It's been very hard not to think about it."

Nura can see the illusion clearly out of the corner of her eye, though she chooses not to say anything. "We don't know that, Princess. Anything, is possible - the future is not set in stone. Perhaps our teammates are just in the Pod Cavern, still asleep in those containment pods."

Wouldn't that be just wonderful?

To have Lyle, Jo (provided his hands were bound), Tinya, Garth, Ayla, Salu...everyone, on the ship? With them?

Yes. Yes it would be. Though Jeckie had never been particularly close to many of them, and though she had been on the verge of... I'd rather not think about that... she would have quite preferred to see a few familiar faces around there. "I check there sometimes. Searching for Brin, mostly. Sometimes my parents. But there's never anything I can understand or make out."

"I at times feel the same way." She reaches up with her hands and moves back an errant white lock. "My precogging is often off, and then on a good day, it is at full-force. It commonly goes forward so often as well. One minute I am talking to this woman about my precogging, and I jump ahead into correcting this young man about the word 'fantastic', while I am still talking to the woman."

She shakes her head with a sigh, tousling her white hair. "It is irking."

Jeckie smiled a little at that. "I can imagine it to be so," she said. "My...powers have developed as well," she said after a moment. "I can sense people's greatest fears. And then bring them to life." She looked at Nura. "I'm not sure that this was something my parents were capable of."

"Does this new power disgruntle you in any way?" So then the Princess has already developed her abilities with controling the ID. That must have made her a tough foe against the Nightmare King.

Nura isn't sure if she should be thankful or if she should be worried about this new development.

"Hmm. Perhaps not disgruntle. I have not played with it much." Though she had considered using it against the Legion at one point.

She was getting better about that, though.

Using it on that Sensor snake thing, on the other hand...

"Why? Do see something with a disgruntled myself?"

Not played with it. Not the kind of reassuring words Nura wants to hear, but they are reassuring in some form. She relaxes her shoulders in relief - had they been so tense before?

"Not at all, Princess. I am only concerned for your well-being."

Projectra looked out the window again. "There is cause for concern, I suppose. I won't lie - when I discovered I had those powers, I was going to use them for less than savory reasons." She looked back at Nura. "It's something I'm fighting against."

"Everyone has their less desirable thoughts, Princess," Nura says, going over the bed and sitting down on it. Her mind is shuffling thoughts and there is the familiar tingling sensation of a vision coming, but then, that has been going on for hours now.

"Fighting your ID is something natural. Although for some people..." she rubs her arms, looking up. "...for some people, their ID is their Ego and Super-ego." She gives the Princess a reassuring smile. "You are not ruled by your ID."

Jeckie smiles a little at Dream Girl. "I try not to be, but I was raised wealthy, and with whatever I wanted ready to have at my finger tips," she explains. "Which means that I am already prone to giving in to my imuplses."

Nura leans back into her arms against the bed and tilts her head back slightly. Her hair slips from over and off her shoulders, while her blue blue eyes twinkle under the Princess's quarters' bright lights. She looks like a child trying to put together an answer quick before the teacher calls her out.

"Yes...but you forget the most important thing, Princess." She turns her head back up and straightens her posture to a more serious pose. She puts her hands on her knee and leans forward. "You have willpower to not do wrong."

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