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[Nakama's not looking quite so sickly the next time she appears on the network feed - she's been getting treatments from Dr. Watson that are at least resting her body, if not her mind. There's a figure behind her as well, hair slightly and unevenly shorn but still recognisable as Karuika Mirel. He's not exactly hiding, but it's clear that she's in charge of this post.]

Hello, everyone. Karu had an idea for another event we could do ourselves, just as travelers, and I wanted to run it past everybody and see what you thought.

If we find a good spot, we could light a controlled bonfire - sort of to represent the gift that light was to us recently - and people could write down any of their worries and concerns and throw them into the fire. I'm sure we've all got things still weighing on our mind, and it would be a way to purge yourself of them and move on.

[She glances behind her, murmuring under her breath.] Was that alright?

Perfect, Nakama. [His voice is warm and encouraging. He adjusts the red headband covering his usually obvious ears and turns to address the network himself:] Is this something transients -- ah, travelers -- would attend? I plan to string lights around the city. With any luck, they will become colored lights by the end of the night.

Think of it as rebirth.

So just let us know, okay? Thank you for listening.

((ooc: replies may come from one or both of them! If you're mean to Karu, you're guaranteed to get a Nakama, though.))

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I guess I didn't really know that. I've never been on any serious medications, other than antibiotics, and neither has my mom. It still sounds unfair, but I'm glad you don't have any of the more serious ones.

Me too, beleive me. I'm glad for you and your Mom, too though - You must both be pretty strong to stay so healthy!

[She smiles sheepishly.] Considering how I treated my body sometimes, it's surprising. But my mom was always careful to stay healthy for work, and I guess I was mostly lucky.

Hey, maybe it was that work ethic that kept you so strong? Illness and injury knew you had no time to deal with it so stayed away? It sounds like your Mother might be a similar case.

[She can't help but laugh a little, like she's sharing a private joke with herself. She never thought she'd hear someone say her mom had a good work ethic with her job.]

That could be it. I tried to eat healthy too, and I still do... I have treats sometimes, but I try to avoid candy and soda and things like that.

I'll admit, I don't mind desserts but I've never been much of one for candy or soda. I drink a lot of tea and fruit juice but most soda is too sweet for me to drink more than a little. I guess I'm a fan of slightly bitter things over sweet.

No, I've never been big on it either. I don't mind cakes and pastries and stuff sometimes, but candy and soda are just pure sugar.

It's funny... do you know Lancelot? He's from a long time ago, and I guess soda really put him off because of the carbonation. He said things shouldn't move in your mouth when they're being consumed.

[It's just a funny story - she's not mocking him in any way. She'd probably react to soda the same way if she wasn't used to it.]

I've never met him - But I can definitely understand how strange that must have been for him! I guess, in the scheme of things, Soda is a pretty recent invention, and when you think about it, it IS kind of weird how it bubbles in your mouth.

Morgana asked me if it was magic. You really don't realize how little you actually understand about the modern world until you try to explain it to someone from another time. [Another small laugh.]

I know exactly what you mean - sometimes I'll be explaining something like that to little Hibiki and I have to pause and think to myself how weird it is once you kind of say these things out loud. Like explaining cars, or why clothes shrink in the drier sometimes.

I got totally lost on the TV. I think poor Lancelot still thinks there are small people in the screen.

Oh man, I'd never even thought of that - I mean, at least with cars you can kind of compare them to horse drawn carriages sans horses. There really WAS no historical equivalent to television, was there?

Just theatre, and you can explain that it's happening somewhere else at a different time, but how do you explain recording and projecting?

Edited 2012-09-12 22:20 (UTC)

Yeah - theatre is more an activity than an object like television is. I guess the closest thing I can really think of isn't even real. Remember those stories about the fortune tellers with the Crystal Balls? The ones you'd look into and they can show you visions and stuff? That's about the best analogue I can think of if you combine it with theatre.

... oh gosh, I never even would have thought of that. But what if they don't have the same stories? It could get even more confusing. [She laughs again, helplessly.] We really need some qualified people to give tutorials, to all of us.

Yeah - like some kind of workshop. 'People from the past and You; How to explain modern conveniences to your ancestors and others!' or something.

Yeah, really. The 'how do you work this' isn't so bad, but the 'how does this work' is where we obviously need help.

Or even the 'why do you have this' sometimes. Still, I think we'd be in the exact same boat if they ever brought anyone in from the really distant future. I met one alien lady called Tali - she left a long time ago, but she probably had technology I couldn't even dream of. She was from the 23rd century, if I remember right.

Yeah, I've met a few people from the future. A lot of them seem to live out in space... it's crazy to think of, since in my time, spaceships are still so small and cramped and just used for short trips.

Well, in my time there's the International Space Station out there, but manned flights are still a huge rarity. What year are you from, Nakama?

[He'd guess they were taken from about the same time - there was nothing to suggest she was from too far back or forward.]

Oh - I guess we've never talked about that, huh? I'm from 2003.

Oh! I'm from 2012, so, a little way in the future, but not so much.

Let's see - if you're thirteen in 2003, that means in 2012 you'll be about 22 or so. Four years older than me!

[It strikes him as kind of a funny thought.]

Y-Yeah... [She looks away, her expression darkening.]

[His chuckle kind of dies.]

Oh... um. Sorry! Did I say something wrong?

It - it's nothing. Don't worry about it.

[But she can't hide the pain in her face. It's such an ugly reminder of how much she's lost... she might have been in college at 22, or working as a proper seamstress. Now she'll never know.]

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