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She's Alive [Open]

Anyone wandering into the media library this morning would find a somewhat unfamiliar looking young woman (about eighteen, possibly nineteen) sitting in front of the equipment, head tilted back and eyes closed as she listened to some good, old-fashioned rock and roll. She looks fit, in excellent physical condition and seems cheerful enough. She has one leg folded over the opposite knee, toe tapping as she keeps time with the music. Yeah, she's discovered just how awesome music from twentieth century Earth is and she's enjoying it.

Give her a minute and she'll probably notice whoever wanders in after her.

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"Eh, not really... Just listening. This stuff isn't exactly from my world."

She waves a handi n the general direction of the machinery.

"More like I'm just relaxing."

Scratch that -- something about her seems a little familiar, but as he's never talked to Karis personally, he brushes that aside.

"Sorry, I thought you might be a fellow refugee from Earth." He pauses for a moment to listen to the music she's chosen. He doesn't recognize this song; sadly, only some of them made it to 3005 A.D. without being buried by time, but he certainly recognizes the style. "I come here fairly often, but I don't think we've ever met. Kanoe Zouichi."

He extends a hand; he's not sure whether her world has handshakes, but it seems like a common enough custom aboard the ship.

Karis smiles easily enough and extends a hand, "Karis Reynolds. Pleased to meet you, Kan."

Yeah, she doesn't really get the whole reverse name thing yet.

"Zouichi, actually. But Kan is fine, too, I guess." After all, Howard calls him 'Zou' all the time.

His handshake is firm, but it's obviously a gesture he's not entirely used to.

"Did you arrive here during the last pod release?"

She gives his hand a firm shake and then nods, gesturing at the seats, "Take a load off, make yourself home-like and stuff."

A shrug.

"Yeah, pretty much. Mostly been getting used to this place."

Ugh, Stacy-chairs.

He nods. "Have you tried joining a department? It might help if you're looking for something to do."

And take your mind of things. Like your world being destroyed.

"Thought about it. Toyed with engineering, maybe, but I'm mostly a grunt. Infantry back home, farmed before that. Not exactly the highest person on the totem pole, yeah?" She chuckles. "I'll do the fighting, everyone else can worry about the rest. Shit, I just want to get this finished so we can all go home."

He raises an eyebrow. "So you do engineering in your spare time? If you ever do end up there, I have a friend who's trying to scrape together some materials from the department... Howard. I'd recommend getting what you can from him now; I suspect he's going to start charging in the future."

"You're a soldier? In what army?"

"Oh, yeah! Howie! I know him! Good guy," Karis nods, still lounging in the meatchair. The question gives her a pause as she eyes him. Curious guy. And then she puffs up a bit, obviously proud of whatever service it is she comes from.

"Lordaeron heavy infantry. Not the most glamorous, but I'm not a noble."

"Good guy? Well, he's not bad, I guess." He really, really hoped Howard wasn't fleecing someone who appeared to be a perfectly nice young woman. "...we are talking about the same Howard, right?"

He didn't recognize the name, but she was clearly proud of her job. "Afraid I've never heard of Lordaeron, but apparently we'll be involved in plenty of fighting."

"That's what I hear. Hate to be left out, I guess. Signed up for king and country and to see the world. Got a lot more then I bargained for with this trip, though," she groans and flops back.

"I just want my family to be OK. And yeah. Same Howard. Kinda rough around the edges, but whatever."

"I think we all got more than we bargained for, really. But so far, things aboard the ship have been less than eventful. I thought it would be like the situation back home, maybe worse."

Zouichi blinked. "There are an awful lot of pods on the ship. Maybe your family is in some of them."

Okay, yeah, at some point he had to talk to Howard about Karis. So far, Howard appeared to be living by his decision to leave his old life behind him, but...

"Hope so. Hate to think of 'em being popped back home when these damn bugs blew Azeroth into the Nether..."

She sighed and leaned forward, chin cupped in her hands.

"Where are you from, Zouichi?"

"Azeroth? Ah, so you're from the same world as Alastirra." A world where magic was apparently commonplace.

"A planet called Earth. I've run into a number of people from worlds with the same name, but none from my particular version." He shrugged. "It's probably fortunate; at the point when I was removed from the timeline, there were more zombified drones walking around than people."

Sliiiiight understatement there.

"Alastirra...? Uh, yeah. Although I don't thik I've ever run into anyone quite like her before..."

Because she didn't remember Draenei at all.

His description earned a sympathetic frown and a slow shake of the head, "Sorry to hear that. What the Hell happened?"

"Neither have I. Perhaps her species is relatively rare?" Then again, wasn't a member of the Council from the same species? Maybe not.

"Someone decided they wanted immortality," he said. "And along came a virus of unknown origin that offered to give it to them. But containment failed, and it became airborne. Very few humans were immune, but even those that were were subject to attacks by the drones.

...Which was why I was created, really."

"...maybe. Then again, haven't been everywhere in the world," Karis shrugged. She wasn't too worried about it.

His story, on the other hand, was rather tragic. Sounded like everything had decided to crap out at once.

"You trying to save the world?"

"Something like that. But even if we were able to take care of all the zombies, I don't know if it'll ever get back to the way it was." He shrugged again.

"Comparatively, Lordaeron sounds much more pleasant."

"Oh, yeah. Way better... Green hills, peaceful farms. It was a bit difficult after the war, but we've managed since then. Hell, da' even paid off the farm. Orcs aren't a threat anymore, trolls are kept quiet... Not sure if I was ever going to see action, but hell, not much of anyone to fight right now."

He smiled at her description of her home country. "It sounds like a wonderful place. I wish I could have seen it."

Where he'd come from, there wasn't much greenery left.

"Yeah, well..." She frowned and ran a hand through her hair. "...hope I get to see it again."

Zouichi nodded. "I'm sure you will."

He wasn't, of course; none of them were, but he sincerely hoped Karis would be able to return to the Lordaeron of her memory.

"I should be going. It was nice to meet you, Karis."

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oh god, Karis D:

sob.

noooooo