Backtimed: Just after the pop pod

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Having jet-black skin is useful for being stealthy... at night. With the current 'day' cycle, though, there's nothing to keep Meluly from being particularly noticeably as she ambles from building to building, checking the interiors for anything useful.

She's wearing a belt low on her hips with a pistol-in-holster and a few pouches on it... and nothing else, actually. She isn't that discomforted by the nudity, but for having to be a bit more careful with her feet and body than otherwise.

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[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai is out and about again. She's taken to poking around the city and occasionally using certain buildings for target practice with her knives. Plus, down here there's a relatively smaller chance of running into people. Today, however, she runs into Meluly. She stops, blinking in surprise for a moment. She's not really used to running into random naked women (let alone ones with tattoos everywhere).

"Well. Now I've seen everything."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Luly says with a quirk of a smile, offering a small wave. "Have you seen anything useful around here? Most of these places seem so... empty."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"...Hi," Mai folds her arms, schooling her face back into its usual placid mask, although she's carefully keeping her eyes on Luly's face, "No, not really. Most of this city is empty. And boring. Well, some guy is turning one of the larger buildings into a miniature fortress..."

She waves a hand in the vague direction of the Vatican.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Luly seems generally undisturbed by this situation. She might even be intentionally flaunting it a little...

"...a... what? It's stupid to do that in here, pick somewhere else and you could actually set up some defensive lines..." Her expression is one of incredulousness.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

If she is, Mai is ignoring it and doing a pretty good job of it at the moment. She shrugs in response to Luly's exclamation, "Don't ask me. I just know it's a giant temple or something and he's been melting down things and building barricades. I hear him every time I walk past."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

She lets out a 'hah' breath. "That sounds ridiculous..."

Coming from the woman with no clothes.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"At least he wears clothing."

Mai seems to think so too.

"And it makes sense. Some weird stuff has happened on this ship. Like brain slugs."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"I don't count those things as clothing. The whole reason I came up here is to look for something else."

That... throws her for a loop. "Vefmanel, the Migou are here too?"

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"Better than nothing. Good luck finding something in this place... None of us have."

She shrugs, then blinks and shakes her head, "...Migou? No, I think they were called... Yeerks or something."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Luly hrmphs. "It's probably one of their ploys..."

"And I can stand nothing for a while. I don't think I'll ever understand the Human attitude towards clothing..."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"Well, they all starved to death and withered. Unless they can fake that..." Mai shrugs.

"Well, maybe it's different from where you're from... but we're not really used to people walking around like that."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"They're not above making creatures to do their dirty work," she says with a frown. "And you're clearly willing to bear it—you are still talking with me." That bit was meant a little more clearly in good humor.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai shrugs again and toys with one of her knives, "Not much phases me. The world is a boring place."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Luly squints. "'Boring'? You've been abducted by an alien spaceship."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai rolls her eyes, "I hadn't noticed. But, really, it's the same thing every day. I eat the same muck, I throw knives at targets, I wander the ship, and sometimes I use the Sensorium. Boring."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"Sensorium?" Luly asks, trying to skip around the 'boring' topic a little.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"It's... hard to describe. Pulls memories or something and makes places seem real. Except they're not." Another shrug.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"That sounds... creepy." Her eyebrows go up. "What if you think about something you don't want to think about?"

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"You sort of have to ask it to do it... I don't really know how it works. It's just... a really, really good illusion." She rubs one arm, "It showed me a place I knew back home, but there were no people. That kind of thing."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

"That still sounds... kind of creepy." Luly's gaze momentarily slides off into infinity, though.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it sort of is" Mai went silent, watching the other woman for a moment, "This whole ship is."

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Luly lets out a sigh.