Meet-n-Greet

[cityship]

After being released from stasis, having the slime removed from their bodies and clothed in the creepy, pulsing leaf-suit that everyone wore, and being taken to the Weapons & Possessions lockers to collect their belongings, the new arrivals would find themselves standing in the Observation Deck. Round windows lined the fleshy walls, revealing the bright display of lights that was inter-dimensional travel. They would also discover that there were people--members of the command staff and crew that had woken earlier--waiting for them.

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[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

Owen pats the kid on the head. "Hey, no biggie man. It takes an uncommon mind, and I'm told I'm pretty uncommon."

Yeah, that was one way to describe how Grace and Katana had referred to him on occasion.

"You any good with tools? I could probably teach you a couple basic designs, assuming this place has a decent workshop somewhere..." He looks back to the kid. "By the way.." He extends his hand. "Owen Mercer-Harkness-Thawne. Nice to meetcha."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

Sokka (semi) indignantly brushes the hand off. "Well, I'm pretty inventive. I'd just thought the boomerang had reached the peak of it's perfection...but apparently, I was wrong."

He considered. "Yeah, I'm okay with tools. I have to keep my weapons and gear in decent repair, so I know how to work with seal-whale bone and that kind of thing."

What? There's no wood at the south pole.

[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

"Seal and whale bone, huh?" The kid did look kinda tribal. Gotta keep an open mind. Owen smiles. "Oh kiddo, I can teach you about all kinds a' stuff."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"No, seal-whale. Don't tell me they don't have seal-whales where you're from!" They very idea is preposterous!

[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

Owen blinked. "No... not really." He gestured to the left. "They have seals..." then to the right "and whales."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

Sokka stared.

"Just..seals. Not tortise-seals? Or eel-whales? Just seals and whales?" That is way too weird.

"This reminds of me of the Earth King's 'bear' all over again." Yes, air quotes are included for the bear.

[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

"Well... there's elephant seals, but they're just really big, and have a big snout. They're not like.. half elephant. That's about it."

Owen raises an eyebrow. "What's wrong with just a 'bear'?" He copied the air-quotes.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"It's weird. I mean, I've only ever seen one bear. But I've seen plenty of platypus-bears and I ran into a moose-lion. That was scary." He nods sagely.

[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

"Well if you only have, like... something-bears or bear-somethings... how do you identify what's the bear part?" Owen raised an eyebrow.

He shrugged. "I'm just gonna assume we're from different planets."

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

That stops Sokka in his tracks.

"Uh...I dunno, actually." He rubs the back of his head awkwardly. "It's just always been that way."

"And yeah, good assumption."

[fast-thrower.livejournal.com]

Owen smirks, seeming satisfied. "Yeah... this place seems to be a really mixed bag. Hope they've at least got enough different food here for everyone." He rubbed his stomach. "I'd almost kill for a bacon barbeque cheeseburger about now..."