trans_9 | Meet N' Greet

Kelly leans back against a wall, her arms folded across her chest as she watches the crowd of people. The glop looks about as tasty as the food in the Navy, so she figures she can pass on that for now, it's not like she's hungry anyway. She notices some of the older crew members coming out to talk to the newbies, but she figures she'll just stand and watch for now. Maybe she'll learn more that way. Her eyes dart from side to side as she watches the conversations.

Maybe someone will come along and just explain everything to her.

And here comes a wolf. A wolf in a pod suit. Carrying what can only be a hatchet in its mouth.

It's been systematically working its way through the tables, sniffing at and otherwise investigating new people and occasionally wagging a silent greeting to some of the older crew members.

It makes its way over to Kelly and tilts its head slightly in curiosity.

"Hello," says the wolf. "You are new. I do not know your smell."

No one's talking to this new human already, so it doesn't seem rude for her to do so.

When she hears the voice, Kelly sort of snaps to full alert, tensing to move and glancing around quickly. Finally, she looks down and sees the wolf looking up at her. A talking wolf, seriously? Judging from the looks of some of the other crew though, it doesn't seem all that far-fetched. Shrugging almost imperceptibly, she replies.

"I am. I dropped out of one of the pods a little while ago along with most of these people." She waves a hand at her fellow newcomers. "I suppose you've been here awhile?"

Bella sits down, placing the hatchet delicately in front of her forepaws before looking up at Kelly again.

"Yes," she says, giving a short sharp bob of the head. It's a motion she's been picking up from the humans, nodding, and it looks rather odd.

"This one is Bella," she adds, by way of introduction. Her eyes flick over the gathered mass of people. "I do not like this. Many strangers come while the Elders are not here."

Kelly nods as well. "I don't suppose you'd know what's going on then?"

"My designation is SPAR- My name is Kelly." She offers, by way of her own introduction. "Elders? What are they? DO they run this ship?"

"We know little," Bella confesses. "Ship Spirit wakes us from pods. We are trapped in this place. I hear there was battle before I woke, but I missed it." Actually, Bella podpopped into the tail end of a fight and just managed to make everything worse by raging all over the place.

"Elders do not run ship, they run the... not pack. Crew." Bella twists one ear off to the side as though listening to something distant, remembering.

"Elders is not the right word. I do not know it. There is one called Picard... Captain. And also Kirk, and Cybil-rhya, and the one called Chief..." she shakes her head and snorts. "Many. Pack is very large. Would not stand with wolves, too many means too little prey."

Kelly makes a mental note of the word 'battle.' So not everything is quiet on the ship. She's going to need some weapons then. "Is there somewhere I can get weapons?"

She nods. "Do you know if they were the ones who built the ship or.."

She trails off when Bella recounts the names of the 'Elders.' The only name she hears though is 'Chief.' "Chief? Tell me about him."

"Weapons and possessions, that is the name of the place. If it is yours the Ship Spirit will not scold you for taking it," Bella replies. "I take this from Sawyer. He does not take it back, so it is mine," she says, indicating the hatchet. Bella likes having things.

Bella chuffs, flattening her ears. "Very large male. Bigger... bigger than any human this one has seen. Very white. Many scars. He is head of security on the ship. Not here now." There's a grudging respect in her body language. No proper human should be able to match a Garou in a fight, at least not on Bella's side of the fence.

She nods. "I'll go check that out then. So ship stops you from taking something that isn't yours?"

Well, Kelly knows enough about canines to know that ear flattening means not happy. That does sound like John though always making friends. "Not here? As in not here, on the ship?"

"No, but it does give you Violations. After fifteen Violations she says she will Punish you, but nobody has that many yet. She gives a warning first. Then she starts to count." The capital letters are almost audible, like they are when Stacy delivers her reprimands. "Most use a violation to take things. She only is upset if they are weapons. Or very important."

"No, he is not on the ship. He is on..." Bella fishes for the right word. "The planet. That. On mission. The Ship Spirit said I could not go." She bristles a little. "I am a warrior, it is wrong to hold me here where I can do nothing if I might be needed."

"Violations? I see. So nobody knows what these punishments could be?" Kelly does take a note of that. If at all possible, she wants to stay on the ship's good side. At least for now. "Very important? Such as?"

"So people can leave the ship? They get sent on missions?" That gets an almost sympathetic look from Kelly. "Perhaps your skill set were not what was required for the mission."

"No, but we think they are bad. It hits us if we try to fight other crew, not just giving Violations. Punishment will be worse, then," she reasons.

"I do not know what is important to humans. Things that belong to others? I do not go there often. My mother gave me all that I will ever need." Bella shows her teeth a little to illustrate this point. In reality, she still thinks it would be the coolest thing ever to find a proper Get of Fenris axe or klaive, but until that day comes she'll pretend otherwise.

"We did not know about it until it happened. She took the ones she wanted and sent the Obs Deck place away with them. Ones who can fight were sent, but not I. Other Garou were sent, but not I." She's less ragey and more disappointed by now.

"The ship hits if we attack other crew members? I'll remember that."

"Weapons maybe? Armor? Do you know what they keep in there? Are all everyone's possessions in there?" Kelly would kill just to have her knives. At least the knives if not a good gun.

"So that was the first mission? The one Chief went on?" DO you get the feeling that she really doesn't care how disappointed you are that you didn't get to kill anything, Bella? Because she really doesn't care. >_>

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