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Quiet Time...Please Disturb [open]

Characters: Kaldur'ahm & Open
Content: Whatever floats your boat. Kaldur's just relaxing/meditating.
Location: Deck 8, Nature Deck
Time of day: Evening
Warnings: None

Kaldur'ahm sat with his feet in the watering hole on the Nature Deck. It was a strange environment to find in space, but at least something that Kaldur felt more comfortable with than the other environments. One thing after another seemed to be happening on board and it was nice to find a Deck in which he could just BREATH and not see metal everywhere. It still wasn't a reminder of home, though. Even with his friends here who knew he could be so nostalgic for the Earth he knew? Kaldur watched as some of the fish swam up and around his ankles, obviously curious about this invader in their watering hole. Kaldur watched them before they swam away, obviously interested in other things.

He flopped onto his back, leaving his feet in the water. Perhaps the real reason he was so homesick was the lack of a body of water. It just wasn't enough to have a swimming pool and a small watering hole...Kaldur was used to the ocean. Here he really was a fish out of water, more so than Happy Harbor where he could at least dive in any time he wanted. He hadn't really shown it, not to Artemis or Wally anyway, but he was worried about what would happen to them. Kaldur watched as his skin started to sparkle more in the fading light of the Nature deck. Well, at least he could take his mind off of that by wondering about this recent sparkle invasion of the skin.

Kaldur studied his bare arm as it glistened, wondering what sort of infection this might be. It certainly wasn't any rash or disease he had heard of but it seemed to have affected most of the occupants of the satellite. Just another strange thing about this place he supposed. Kaldur rubbed at his skin for the billionth time that day to see if he could disperse the sparkles but it did little good...but at least the intensity of it from a few moments ago was fading.

"I wonder if it is perhaps a reaction to something," he muttered, laying his arm back down and staring up at the ceiling/forest canopy.

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Namine was taking a few moments to explore on her own, and had settled on the nature deck. Her time outdoors until now had been limited, and probably would be again once she returned home, so this was the best opportunity she had to experience anything close to the "nature" she'd seen in Sora's memories as she repaired them. Thankfully the deck was quiet, allowing her time to collect her thoughts.

She'd never sought time alone before; rather the opposite. Not that she wasn't used to being on her own, and she'd known those whose notice she'd avoided--DiZ and Marluxia in particular. This was the first time, though, that she'd been in such constant contact with people, even if it was just talking through Cambot, that she found it starting to tire her.

So she'd left Cambot at the elevator and struck out on her own. She couldn't tell how long she'd been walking, but she was feeling pretty tired by the time she broke through some foliage near the watering hole. Apparently she wasn't the only one who'd wanted to explore this deck. "Oh! Ummm...Hello"

Kaldur heard the rustling in the foliage long before Namine actually appeared, so that by the time she was standing across from him he was sitting up and watching the spot. It was perhaps foolish of him, seeing as there didn't really seem to be anyone out to attack him or anything. Perhaps he was still just jumpy from being in an unfamiliar environment.

Whatever the case, Kaldur relaxed when he realized he was just being jumpy. Instead he gave Namine a slight smile, recognizing her as the one who had worried about his ability to breath with his gills. "Hello? Are you lost or simply exploring the decks?"

Namine smiled back--she remembered that conversation. "I'm just exploring."

She sat down, removing her sandals to dunk her feet in the water. "Kaldur, right? I hope I'm not bothering you."

"Have you discovered anything interesting," he asked, legitimately interested if she had found anything. He had only gotten so far in his wanderings before this deck had seemed to beckon to him and he'd stopped here for a few hours now.

He did not mind her joining him at the pond and, in fact, scooted over a little to give her more space to sit next to him. It had been awhile since he'd had the opportunity to make more friends with surface people. Really, with his duties on the league he hadn't had much time to "get out."

"Yes," he paused to remember her name, "And you are Namine, correct? You are not bothering me at all. I was only taking a moment to collect my thoughts and assess our current situation."

Namine thought for a moment. "There's a room with lots of materials to make things with. I've tried to use the pencils and pastels to draw, but they break most of the time. Oh, and the one with the books looked interesting, but none of the books were good." Namine could imagine what Vexen or Zexion would say if they caught her reading them--"waste of time" was the nicest thing on the list.

She scooted over to join him. Since the party she hadn't had much chance to speak to anyone in person (except for helping Galadriel make clothes), and this was nice. Sora, Riku, and the others wanted to see her, she knew, but she wasn't looking forward to some of the questions that might come up.

Glad she wasn't bothering him, she nodded in response to his question. "It's strange, isn't it, all of us suddenly appearing here?'

Kaldur looked a little disappointed at hearing that. He tended to spend a great deal of his free time reading various books so it would be bad if there was nothing here to read. "I am sorry to hear that. So you like to draw then?" He was never very good at art himself, though he had studied some in his days at school. He was more interested in the history of art than in drawing himself, but he wouldn't mind seeing other people's works.

"It is indeed strange. I had not imagined that I would be in space any time soon...but I suppose it is a good experience to have. I do not know if any of my friends will believe me when I tell them...thankfully I do have some here so they can support my story," Kaldur replied with a half smile. Luckily the one LEAST likely to believe him, Wally, was also on the ship so that at least worked to his advantage. "I hope we can return everyone safely anyway."

Namine gave him a sympathetic look. Vexen and Ienzo had liked to read, too--it was thanks to them she knew how to at all. She brightened a little at the mention of drawing. "I'm not very good, but I do like it. What kind of books do you like?" With so little experience reading, she was interested in what sort of stories others liked.

She went quiet at his last comment. Having rarely gone outside Castle Oblivion or the mansion, she'd never thought she'd be in a place like this, either. Finally she answered. "I don't know if this is good for me or not. Back home--there were people that needed my help. I hope everyone can go home safely, but I'm worried what will happen if I'm gone too long." She paused. "Though, some of them are here--they're from further ahead in time than me, and they're alright."

"I suppose anything, but I do enjoy studying books about history and other languages...anything about civilization and its past," Kaldur responded. He knew most people were probably not interested in reading books like that, but such stories from the surface world fascinated him. He'd studied many cultures in his spare time in hopes that it would enlighten him more about humanity.

He looked out at the pond, "I know what you mean. There are people who need my help as well...but hopefully those I left behind can handle the problems in my place while I am here." M'gann, Robin, and Superboy were certainly capable enough and the majority of the League was still there, not to mention Roy. Surely someone would step up. His real concern was about the mole situation he had left unaddressed. It would be near impossible to conduct an investigation of the matter here, though he could try to eliminate Artemis and Wally as suspects.

"That sounds like it might be complicated." His brows furrowed as he considered the problem being from the future or the past of one of his friends might bring. He sighed, "I cannot say I know much on the subject of timelines or time travel, but it would make sense to me that if they are alright now that things somehow work out...even if you are here now." He shrugged, he at least hoped it would make her feel better about the situation.

"Not just story books, then." Her only knowledge of other worlds came from Sora's memories, but they'd all looked interesting to visit. "But there are so many worlds--I wouldn't know where to begin trying to learn about them all."

She nodded thoughtfully as she took in the rest of his words. She hoped Axel and Riku were managing well without her (though there was a part of her that didn't, because that might mean she was useless). They didn't always get along, though, and she worried about what might happen if she wasn't there to calm them down if Axel accidentally went too far. Not to mention they'd been planning on using her connection with Sora as a way to find and help him...

The fact that the Sora, Riku, and Kairi here were from a future where they'd won was a slight comfort. Somehow, everything had turned out okay. The fact that they remembered her returning to her other made her shudder slightly. She knew she had to return to Kairi; that wasn't what scared her. She was finding, though, that the abstract idea of "something that will happen someday" and knowledge that the event had happened, had become a link in others' chains of memories, were too very different things.

"Maybe. But I think that there are some things that, even if you know they have to happen, you don't want to know when and how they happened," she said quietly.

He chuckled, "Perhaps. But instead of focusing on all of the different places or topics you can read about perhaps start somewhere a little familiar and something that interests you and branch out from there." In his own studies he'd mostly started with Atlantean lore and mythology before moving on to the surface world.

Kaldur thought about what she had said for a moment. He had not dealt with time travel or skipping or anything like that before. True, he had read books dealing with the subject, mostly speculation, and Robin or Wally could perhaps shed more light on the science of it...however he was not sure how to speak of it in this instance. It was clearly troubling Namine and he wanted to comfort her since it was just in his nature to do so.

"That sounds understandable to me. It is perhaps unwise to know too much about one's own future, simply knowing can cause us to take different courses of action that could in turn change the outcome."

"There were a lot of books where my friends were staying--maybe I'll start with those when I get back." Namine tilted her head in thought. There weren't many other places she could look at the moment, and DiZ's collection was at least sure to be...relevant to the issues at hand.

Even if Kaldur tried to explain, Namine might have a hard time following. Though she'd had a rudimentary education--some reading and math--and she was capable of learning, it would take time for her to build the knowledge base that others had. Sora's memories could only tell her so much, since she'd tried to not look more closely than needed. The effort to comfort, though, was appreciated and she latched on to the chance to change the subject.

"Didn't people once believe in fortunetellers? I think there were some stories made up about what happened when someone tried to keep a...prophecy? from happening." She frowned in thought as she tried to remember details from the book of stories that Zexion had brought one day and they'd both 'forgotten' she needed to return.

Kaldur sighed, his head with hurt if he tried to sort this out much longer. His education might have been better than Namine's but quantum physics was more Wally's territory than his own. "There is the belief of some that you cannot fight destiny, but I like to think we can choose our own path. Regardless, the situation we are in now I doubt anyone could have foreseen and we should probably just attempt to make the best of it."

"Still, I like to think that, in the end, things will work out for the best. It just might take longer or be more difficult than we originally thought it would."

The surface of the pond seemed pristine, peaceful and undisturbed. But as soon as Kaldur lay back, bubbles began to rise up in the middle of the pond. They moved towards the shore, leaving a small trail, until they stopped right in front of the Atlantean.

A sopping wet pink head popped out of the water with a sudden splash. Shaking some of the water from her mane, the pony peered up at the newcomer through a face mask attached to a long neon green snorkel. Recognizing Kaldur from the network, Pinkie spat out the snorkel and lifted the goggles up to beam at him. The gesture revealed that she was also wearing flippers on her hooves. "Hi!" She hadn't really expected to run into anyone on her impromptu diving adventure, but it was always great to meet people in person!

Kaldur jerked upwards in surprise when he heard someTHING erupt from the pond. His eyes were wide for a second as his brain caught up to what was happening and once he recognized Pinkie Pie in a snorkel. He relaxed, shoulders slumping again. He wasn't sure what was up with today and surprises but apparently it was just one of those days where everything caught him off guard.

"Hello," he replied, sitting up and studying the pony up close. It was still strange, even though he'd seen her on cambot, to be interacting with a talking horse...that was pink. He knew he shouldn't be surprised what with his own status as an Atlantean and the fact that he dealt with martians on a regular basis. This, however, was somewhat different. "Enjoying the water?"

"Uh-huh!" Pinkie replied, wading a little closer and resting her forelegs on the edge of the pond. "It's not as big as the lake back home, but it's still pretty nice! Do you wanna come for a swim too? I dunno if you'll really fit all that well, but you can always just splash around!"

Since he normally lived under the ocean, the pony figured Kaldur was just trying to ward off some homesickness, and even if this wasn't really much like the sea at all it'd probably make him feel at least a little better. It had to be really different for him being up in space - of course, it was probably different for everyone, but even MORE for him!

He shook his head. "That is quite all right. I am used to much larger bodies of water...for now I will simply get my feet wet." He didn't think both himself and the pony would fit in the pond, and even if they did it wasn't as though submerging himself would do much good as the water would only come just above his waist.

He tilted his head. The talking pink pony was fascinating to him simply because he had not met a creature like this before. It was clear to him that she came from a planet that perhaps only had such beings. "Do you snorkel in your lake at home often?"

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