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Date & Time: October 10th onwards.
Location: Around the base.
Characters: Ellie and you.
Summary: Ellie's hangin' around, totally over this moon business.
Warnings: Swearing.

a. the cafeteria
[Ellie sits at one of the tables in the cafeteria, a pyramid of upside-down cups stacked in front of her. It's certainly not the sturdiest of structures, but she's spent some time on it, and she's vaguely proud of her accomplishment. They only clattered to the floor once or twice.

Now that she's done, she leans back and slides down a few inches in her seat. Well. That killed twenty minutes.

She reaches out a hand to slowly nudge one of the cups at the bottom corner of her pyramid. That might be loud if she keeps going.]

b. the observatory
[Space is cool. It kind of makes her feel like she's falling when she looks out the window or through any screens, but she keeps coming back to the observatory to do just that. She's not sure if she likes that feeling or not. The wasteland where Exsilium once was is still visible, but Ellie doesn't seem to pay it much mind right now. She's lying on her back on the floor, sneakers propped up against a wall, comic book held over her face.

Every now and then she makes some sort of noise. This comic is so intense.]

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[ Mami hadn't mean to comment as she passed. She didn't know this girl; how she passed her time was none of her business, and butting in would be little more than an intrusion. She catches sight of the way Ellie's hand was sort of nudging at one of the cups at the base, though, and sort of laughs before she can help it, holding her hand to her mouth to stifle the surprised noise. ]

You're going to knock it over after all that work?

[ Kate stands between the doorway of the observatory, a tired but amused smile spreading across her lips. ]

Is it good?

[ Sokka hunkers down, tilting his head to try and look at the comic book. It's in some language he can't read, but the cover is certainly engaging. Plus this kid is almost the same age as his sister...

Call it protective big-brotherly instinct or something. ]

Whatcha reading?

[ He sprawls out, sitting next to Ellie in all his gangly post-adolescent glory. ]

I mean. I don't recognize the language, but those pictures look pretty engaging.

( he's frankly in the cafeteria for a lack of anywhere else to be; in his months in the city of exsilium, he's got used to having the freedom to go exploring whenever he liked. so it's boredly that he looks around the cafeteria, and why the pyramid catches his attention before long. he watches her put on the finishing touches before approaching her, trying to not startle her and cause her to destroy the whole thing or anything equally catastrophic on accident. )

That's pretty impressive.

[Rose is ostensibly in the cafeteria for a glass of water, but she's really meandered over to do some people-watching. there's only so much that can keep her from stewing on the relative impotence being trapped on a moon base lends them, and nothing is more relaxing than trying to analyze strangers through their meal choices.

with a mission like that it's pretty hard to miss Ellie and her Great Pyramid of Cups. after getting herself the water that she has only mild intentions of actually drinking, Rose wanders over to where Ellie's sitting. she observes the structure in silence for a moment before commenting conversationally]

Wouldn't it be more interesting to see how many you can remove before it comes down rather than beginning with wholesale destruction?

[Ellie pulls her hand back, sitting up straighter. Whoops. Busted. She smiles sheepishly as she explains.]

Yeah, why not? Just taking it down one by one isn't any fun. And I don't think anyone would appreciate me leaving this here.

[Oh, Kate. It's good to see her. Where had she been during the evacuation to the moon?]

Fucking awesome. It takes place in space, so it's like reading something totally new.

[She sits up so that she can display the current page--a spread of planets and stars. She's read it dozens of times, but never while on the moon.]

Did you find it in the library?

[ Kate doesn't read comic books much, therefore hasn't ever sought them out in the library. Most of her reading in the past decade has been research related, less for leisure.

She steps into the room, eyes drifting from the pages to the walls of the observatory. ]

[Whoa, personal space. Ellie immediately sits up, but relaxes a bit when she sees it's a kid somewhere around her age.]

Shit, are you a ninja or something?

[Probably not, but damn he startled her. But he asked about her comic, which she holds up.]

It's a comic. Savage Starlight. Can you not read English?

[Ellie sees him coming, so any disasters are averted. She pulls back her hand.]

This? Not even. We're on the fucking moon. That's impressive.

What, like Jenga?

[She looks over at her company. A lot of things from before the infection were lost, but Ellie was at least familiar with some games.]

More or less, although with slightly decreased competition unless you're extending the invitation.

No, it's from home. I thought they didn't make it to Exsilium, but they did.

[She watches Kate, then looks at the walls herself.]

Crazy, huh.

They seem to have bits of everything from different universes.

[ It shouldn't be too surprising this world is likely an alternate world of hers or Ellie's, with similar history up until events leading to the United Earth and the war breaking out.

Still, a lot of this goes over her head. Her training encompassed many things, but never on how to fight a transdimensional war in the far off future while stuck on a base on the moon. ]

You doing okay?

( lanGUAGE LITTLE GIRL!!! but he only laughs, taking a seat near her. )

It's pretty cool, right? But still — that must've taken some work to make.

[ Sokka edges back a bit when he notices her tense reaction and tries to put on his best friendly smile for her. ]

Ah. I'm not sure what a ninja is but probably not.

[ He shrugs his shoulders, head tiltign to examine the script again. ]

Nooope. Is that what it's called? The language where I come from uses a lot more unique characters. And they don't look anything like that stuff.

[ Yeah, he's noticed that the roman alphabet tends to repeat itself. Weird! ]

[Ellie shrugs, motioning to the chair across from her.]

Bring it on.

A ninja. They're all quiet and shit when they move around.

[But, whatever. Ellie doesn't know a lot, and she's met people who can't read at all, so this isn't too weird.]

Where are you from?

Oh. Uh, nah. I'm just good at being quiet sometimes, I guess. I do a lot of hunting.

[ He shrugs. ]

I'm from the South Pole!

More like some boredom. It's like there's nothing to do but go on missions or hang out in that VR room.

[She sighs, looking at her cups, then at one of the walls.]

I miss going outside.

I always meant to check out the library, but I guess I got distracted a lot.

[There was always something to fix up in their shitty little apartment, or she was busy trailing around after Joel or Tess. Ugh, she misses that place already.]

I'm alright. Could be worse. You? When did you get up here?

The South--[Okay, she comes from a world plagued with fungus monsters. Maybe living in the South Pole is a little less crazy.]

What the fuck did you hunt in the South Pole? Polar bears?

[ "Could be worse." Ha. Kate hasn't let go of her embitterment over abandoning the Exiles and refused to after seeing talks of parties and other leisurely activity as if nothing was wrong. As if this is all some trippy vacation and half a million people didn't die.

It strikes a raw nerve with her. She sees Alice's -- Beth's face -- more often than usual now. ]

Just about when the evacuation was done with. [ She had been reluctant to leave, but she wasn't eager to face death either. ] Did you find your friend, Joel?

[ Sokka laughs. ]

Nooo way. You don't hunt a polar-bear dog unless you have at least three hunters, preferably big strong guys, with spears. More if you really want to be safe, and even then you don't wanna mess with them. They're dangerous! Nah. Fish. Turtle-seals, tiger-seals, otter-penguins sometimes. Sea birds.

[Ellie never really felt too bad about the Exiles. Maybe she didn't have enough time to get attached, or maybe she really just didn't care as long as she had Joel and Tess.

She stretches her arms out over her legs, yawning before responding to Kate.]

Yeah. He's back to normal.

[A set of broken ribs and a mental breakdown later, that is.]

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