Mingling at the Bazaar

[cityship]

Next to the Mall Hotel, a large bazaar sprawled out through the streets. Food stalls, jewelery stalls, plastic surgery stalls...might want to stay away from that last one. But since the bizaar was close by, it served as a good place for the crew to meet up and start their exploration of XaXing.

[[ooc: This is just a general mingling post guys, so jump in and start threads, tag into other people's, whatever you want!]]

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[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will nodded. "Yeah, I'll be fine."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua got their food and handed Will her pretzel. "Matt said you were used to traveling to other worlds. Were any of them like this one?"

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will laughed, taking the pretzel. "Not at all. I think I'd go crazy if I had to come to a place like this all the time."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua laughed too. "Agreed. The worlds I went to were much more closed off. There were some that knew of other worlds, or at least of other planets, and there was one with a commercial center, but none of them were as active as this."

She took a bite of her gyro. "This is good. I'll have to find whatever they use to make it for the ship."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will nodded, taking a bite out of her pretzel as well... and smiling as she realized that it was filled with melted cheese. "Yeah. I've never seen a place here that advertised... well... that type of stuff so openly like this..."

Will smiled as she heard that last part. "Good luck with that, cooking stuff like that is a lot harder than it seems."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"At the same time, it's nice seeing the worlds are open to each other and willing to interact," Aqua admitted.

"It probably is," she agreed with a laugh. "Still, I think I should probably work on my cooking skills a little, especially if Sasami's trying to open that restaurant."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will blinked, looking over at Aqua. "A restaurant on the ship? Is that even feasible to do?"

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

"I know there are a couple of places that have drinks on the ship, but she wants to try the same for food," Aqua said. "I just hope she doesn't overexert herself."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

"I see," Will said. "I'm sure she'll do fine. I mean, she had to be thinking about this for a long time, right? You don't just make a restaurant within two seconds of thinking of doing it."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"I know," Aqua said. "But sometimes I think she just forgets to be a kid and have fun. She seems like she's in a rush to grow up."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will blinked. "How old is she?"

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"About eight?" Aqua answered. "Maybe nine."

There was a look of nostalgia on her face as she said, "I know I wanted to grow up at that age, but now I wish I had spent a little more time acting like a kid. I'm worried she might forget to just have fun."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will blinked, then let out a sigh. "Okay, maybe she hasn't thought that through... and I know how that is."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to support her," Aqua promised. "But I want to make sure she gives herself a break."

Giving Will a sympathetic look, she asked, "How was it for you?"

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

"Well... I kinda acted a lot older than I actually was, or tried to, anyway..." Will shook her head. "Funny how it takes the world getting destroyed to realize that..."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"I know," Aqua agreed. "For me, my friends and I ended up letting responsibility, jealousy, lies, and darkness tear us apart. It was enough to make me wish only one of us had ever tried to become a Master, if that was what it led to."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

"I... I'm sorry to hear that," Will said. "It... nothing close to that happened for me."

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

"You're very lucky," Aqua insisted. "If you and your friends are fighting without fighting each other. Maybe it's because you're at your strongest together--or at least that's what I got from Matt. You don't need to be reminded what's really important."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will nodded. "Yeah, that's true. I mean, sure, we fight a bit at times, but never to that degree. At least, anymore."

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

"It takes time to form such close bonds," Aqua replied. "But once you do, no matter what happens--no matter how much you fight and how much you start tearing yourselves apart, that bond can't be completely broken. It's part of you."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will nodded. "That... yeah, I get what you're saying there. Was it the same way with you and your friends?"

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"We came together for the last battle," Aqua explained, her hand over the Wayfinder at her side. "Our enemies separated us, but we were going to try to reunite no matter what. Even now, I hope that one day we'll be together again."

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will smiled. "I hope they wake up from the pods soon then," she said.

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

"Same here," Aqua said. It was long past time for them all to wake up and reunite.

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will smiled, quickly finish up the rest of her pretzel, before she started looking around. "So... what should we do now?"