http://caringcassie.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] caringcassie.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-07-19 09:29 pm

Animal Watching [Open]

Among the things that Cassie had learned about the ship where she now made her home was that there was a section of it that held a large number of alien animal and plant species. Although it had taken her longer then she thought it would to get there, she had finally found her way to Hydroponics, where the animals were supposed to reside. Her eyes twinkled happily and a smile played across her lips as she wandered through the area. The animals that she saw were incredible. Nothing like those that she was familiar with, but that didn't matter. They were all amazing in ways that were unique to them and that was wonderful.

She spotted a strange green creature out of the corner of her eye and spun to get a better look, but, to her disappointment, it vanished before she could see much more. Cassie moved towards the area where she had last seen it, hoping that it might still be lingering nearby or that there might be more like it still within range. She moved slowly and quietly so as not to startle any animals still nearby.

She continued on for a while longer, managing to get at least a glance of a number of other animals and in a few cases she did better then that, although she didn't know enough about them to put a name to any of them. She sighed contently as she walked, feeling more comfortable at that moment then she had since she arrived here. Even the house that she lived in on the ship, the one that resembled her home on Earth, still felt strangely foreign to her for some reason. But here... the animals and physical surroundings might be alien, but this feeling of being surrounded by so many wonderful creatures was not. She felt surprisingly comfortable here.

She might just have to come here more often.

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-07-25 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Eva understands that need to be useful so much. That, and the drive to find a million things to distract her, is why she's taken her job on the Quarter, organized the book club and angled at Bight for an organizer position. Professional bureaucrat, she is.

"From what I've heard. I imagine you'd just have to talk to Luis Sera about it. Be careful, though, he's a bit of a rake." And while Eva's a mature woman who can handle a little flirting, she still thinks of Cassie as a child, if a child with experience and wisdom greatly beyond her years. Lecherous older men, even the polite and respectful ones who know when to back off, are something Cassie should be protected from. "I honestly don't know more than that."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-07-25 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Eva scrunches up her nose and laughs. "Hah, right. Get Marco to show you around that thing. I only recently found out that you don't have to sign your name at the end of every entry. I'm hopeless with most technology."

Not Yeerk technology, though. She's excellent with that.

"He's harmless. Last time I saw him, he was upside down being dangled over a gigantic venus fly trap. I think it's over that way, actually," she says, waving in the general direction of the giant man-eating plant. "So be careful here, too. You know you always have to be careful when aliens are involved."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I was barely psyching myself up to use a cell phone when Stacy snatched me up into this techie's paradise," Eva says with exaggerated moping. "Yes, he's fine. I had to help cut him down and I heard he got stuck in it again not ten minutes later, but he's fine."

She grins. "Well, the Sensoriums are nice. You can create anything there, so I've been running through Turner Classic Movies and bringing them to life. And the city has plenty of people to talk to, if you're up for socializing. Most of them are pretty much as big of screwballs as we all are."

Because there's very little point in pretending they're not terribly damaged.

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-07-28 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Eva shrugs. "Secretly, I think he likes it. It gives him something to feel beleaguered over."

She nods. "Completely real. They even feel real. It'd be unsettling if the possibilities weren't so endless." She starts walking back to the entrance to hydroponics, her cuttings in hand. If Cassie wants to walk with her, all the better, but if not she'll leave her to her animal tracking. "The City's got plenty of lovely things too. Have you seen the Vatican?"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-07-29 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Definitely. Pull up the Amazon rainforest or something. It'll fill in the details down to the humidity." She gives Cassie a little wave. "Of course you will. I've invaded it, after all."