Shore Leave Part 3: The Return Of Stacy

[cityship]

Down on the surface of the planet Zokez II, Stacy's erstwhile (and hopefully much more relaxed) crew began receiving messages over their comm rings and omnicoms.

||Shore Leave is now over, please return to the site for pick up. I repeat, Shore Leave is now over, please return to the site for pick up. I hope you have enjoyed your stay on Zokez II, but all good things must come to an end. Please return to the site for pick up. If you do not return, you will be left behind.||

She means it, too. Better get your butts back to the ship.

[OOC: Please thread amongst yourselves!]

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[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"I am Fremen and was trained in desert survival from the time I was small," Arha said, thinking back to those quiet years spent with Kalim in the simulated desert with the young and dying Shai-Hulud. "There is much to survive upon if one knows where to look. But, I had my moments where I found myself near death. The point is that despite such slim odds, I survived, and was hardened by my home planet. I have seen war, fought and killed for my people, and I have been a healer as well. It was necessary and it has brought me to where I am today, in this moment."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Bad things that were necessary to bring you to where you were now.

Something close to a wince crossed Axl's face for a split-second, before he smothered it. "Yeah, I can understand that."

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"One cannot be who they are without first having the past shape them," Arha said firmly. "Kalim, the woman who raised me, always told me that whining about the hardships you have endured lessens their meaning. You must embrace all things and examine how they have changed you. It is then that you truly know who you are."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"Sounds about like what Red used to tell me. Only his version didn't sound as...philosophical."

Red's version had been something more like shut up and suck it up, I'm not raising a wimp.

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"My Order was bent in such a manner," Arha said with a bright laugh. "Not every individual is as philosophic, as you put it so well. Honestly, everything from the mouths of the Bene Gesserit is much like that. It sometimes requires thought before interpretation."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"I was raised by bounty hunters. Talking was just for what you couldn't say better with a gun." There had been a couple of exceptions, even in Red Alert, but for the most part, nobody thought too hard about anything but the mission in front of them.

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

Arha nodded.

"Such is the way of some people," she murmured. There were many different types of cultures in the universes, this she knew. Hunting for bounty was just one of them. Such a thing was not conducive to 'warm and nuturing'. But then, Arha had never had the luxury of such an example herself.