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.

Comments

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"...What's 'the black' mean?" Sokka questions.

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

"Outer space," River replies succinctly.

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"What's outer space?!" Sokka found this girl remarkably obtuse.

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

River rolled her eyes. He knew very well what outer space was, he just...needed reference?

"Where comets come from? Off planet?"

[theregularguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Oh! Whoa." He seems overcome with this revelation and sits heavily, staring out the window.

"No way. There's no way."

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

"It's easy, once you know how. You just need a ship, and you can't go outside. No air." No nothing in fact, hence the term space. But coming from a universe in which everyone travels in the black at one point or another, meeting someone who was not only planet-bound, but had no concept of space travel, was intriguing to River.