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[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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Ten and two. My sister was wed at ten and three.

...Your sister was married at thirteen?

Yes.

[ Does not see what's wrong with this. ]

...But you're still a kid at thirteen.

No, you're not. Some girls are, but only those who've not yet flowered. [ Which Arya hasn't but so not sharing that. ]

Flowered? What have flowers got to do-

[Oh. OH]

Okay. Don't answer that, got that loud and clear. Wow.

[ FAILING TO SEE THE PROBLEM 8D

She finishes eating and sets the utensils down. ]

Do I leave it here?

Yup. What I'm used to wearing but, it doesn't work out here. It lets me go into space and punch people really hard. [~~she misses it out here~~]

That is what I've heard others say - the woman Raine, especially. Though I wonder if such things are best left to people who understand magic.

Is it magic that keeps us here? We can't really be sure.

Oh this conversation is done? Good, it was getting kind of creepy.

Sure, you can leave them there.

Heck yeah. [fistbump?]

No, I suppose we cannot, though I would have like to have Grace here to ask. Just as well...

No. You don't.

Thanks. [A beat as she watches him search his pocket.]

What are you looking for?

[ He looks more interested in that then than pine needles for sure. ]

He brought all of the ingredients for s'mores?

You go out to space?! [Omg what?! All the awe inspired staring. ALL OF IT]

[Awe and inspired staring? It's like throwing gasoline on a fire. South practically preens with the attention.]

Yeah! In fact, the project I was with was housed in a frigate; I lived and worked and slept in space.

You lived in space?! What's it like? I didn't know it was possible for people to go up there at all.

[Oh, right, he was looking for something... Takes his hand out of his pocket and shows her a little green orb. It looks as if made of frosted glass in the inside; it looks dull though, as it should have an inner glow when outside the Dead Zone. Not that he'll say anything about it.]

Materia.

Yeah well we can't all be hot-shot Saber pilots, can we? [At this point she's more irked at the horse, who has stopped to munch on a bush.]

[South's ego needed this boost. She's definitely relaxing a little.]

Oh, it is possible. It's pretty dangerous, though. It's cold and dark and a complete vacuum, so you can't breathe just out on your own. The ships are fully encased, with their own oxygen and gravity systems.

My suit has temperature regulation and it's own oxygen system, too, so ... so I guess it's almost like it's own little ship. It's awesome.

[Excitable small child is good for that. Her eyes get big and she looks sufficiently impressed]

Oh wow! What do you do in space?

[South is loving this.]

We'd train. We're elite soldiers, you know? Special forces. We'd spend all our time honing our skills, and then they'd send us planet side to pull off operations against the Innie assho-- [~~Kid, South. Kid.~~] The Insurrectionists.

Materia? [She leans in closer to peer at it.]

It kind of looks like a pearl. Is it one?

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