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[therealrisette]

Date & Time: December 30th, afternoon-ish
Location: Shelke's room
Characters: Rise Kujikawa (therealrisette) and Shelke Rui (shelkethetransparent)
Summary: Rise gets bored and lonely, so she pesters Shelke while the poor girl is trying to work.
Warnings: None yet!

Rise had been a lot of places in the past couple of months... Hawaii, New York, even 16th-century Japan. And every time she came back, the moon base seemed just a little bit smaller.

She could just visit the planet again, she supposes, but the island has changed so much. She never really feels safe going down there all by herself. It wasn't long ago she couldn't wait to get off the moon, but now... she's just a little cautious about rushing down to a world that's become completely unfamiliar again.

So for now, she just wanders the halls of the base, dressed in one of the most sickeningly sweet dresses that her 'sister' may or may not have bought her on one of their shopping trips. Another reason she refuses to live down on the planet again... she doesn't have enough winter clothes yet. For now, she's content to make short trips down when she gets too sick of the moon and hasn't been on a mission in a while.

Eventually, she comes across a familiar room in the south residential wing. Curious, she approaches the door and knocks.

"Shelke-chan? Are you home...?"

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[shelkethetransparent]

Before everyone had left the moonbase, Shelke had roommates, but now her room was pretty much just hers. And she had taken over parts of it, bits of machines and computers scattered around. At the moment she was taking a terminal apart, sitting cross-legged on the floor with the half-opened machine in her lap.

When the knock happened, she was honestly startled for a moment, staring at the door as if uncertain what it had meant. People did not visit her, as a general rule. But then she heard Rise's voice. Ah...right.

"Yes. The door is open."

[therealrisette]

Whatever Rise was expecting when she opened the door, Shelke sitting on the floor and working on some kind of machine isn't it. She takes a few cautious steps into the room and stands there for a moment, absently fidgeting with her skirt.

"Um... are you busy? I can go if you want to be alone..."

She really doesn't sound like she wants to leave. Right now, she's lonely enough that it doesn't matter what Shelke's doing, she'd just like the company.

[shelkethetransparent]

Shelke glanced over at Rise once she was inside and paused, considering her. She was adjusting to the girls strange wardrobe, but the dresses still startled her from time to time.

After a second though, she shook her head, her attention returning to the terminal as she unscrewed another screw.

"It's fine. I am just parting this out."

[therealrisette]

Rise kind of felt the same way about Shelke. At first, she would have been a little uneasy at the way she looked at her, but she's kind of started to learn that she doesn't mean anything by it. Shelke just doesn't really seem to have an understanding of how someone might want to look cute. Which is really a shame... she'd look adorable dressed up in the kinds of dresses Rise's taken to wearing lately. Or so Rise thinks.

As the other girl turns her attention to the terminal again, Rise finds herself following along, glancing over Shelke's work curiously.

"'Parting it out'...?"

Pacing nearer to Shelke, but still keeping a safe distance from the strange device, Rise takes a seat on the floor herself. Spreading out her skirt to keep it from bunching up, and folding her hands in her lap, she peers just a teensy bit closer as Shelke continues working.

[shelkethetransparent]

Shelke looked up again as Rise sat down, then back to her work, finally getting the screw off adn tugging the back panel off the terminal.

"Yes. I need the parts for something else."

When the other leaned close, Shelke shifted the tablet a bit so Rise could see inside, though it was just bunch of circuitry.]

[therealrisette]

That's definitely all it looks like to Rise, is just a bunch of machine... stuff. She politely looks inside as if she's interested, though. It's something Shelke is doing, which means she has at least a passing interest. And she doesn't have anything better to do right now.

"What do you need the parts for?"