1st Dusting

[makeitquick]

[Voice]

[This voiced bit is made after this hapadash intro here. Getting to be around sunset now]

So, is this Slayer part two here, show up in some "other world?" Gotta say, this is totally toy if it is.

But hey, girl's gotta do, right? So any lurks out there, here I am. Come find me, I dare you.

[To be honest, she's not sure if she believes this is the case or not. She's just restless - to be out of Versi, to not be near Gates or Erin or her new flat with all the heritage she was just beginning to discover. To assume - or perhaps more accurately, pretend - that showing up in this weird wing-world is an extension of that whole deal.

If anyone wants an action portion instead, she's wishing she had her scythe or blaster hanging out around central plaza, on one of the shop roofs, watching people. At least she has on her own set of clothes by now]

Comments

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The farm was another 'gift'. And there's plenty of wildlife, too. But you have to watch yourself out there. There's a giant wolf...goddess out there that resents humans being in the forest in the first place. And she hates guns. But we all have a truce going; she doesn't go berserk on us, and we respect her and her domain and no one gets hurt. Just be respectful, and expect her to be pissy anyway. 'Long as you let her be the alpha though, she'll leave you alone.

[makeitquick]

[No idea what a wolf is. But she nods all the same. She almost asks why they don't kill it but... goddess? Jesu, a real "goddess." God. She shakes her head at the book and finally clears her throat awkwardly]

I'll keep it in mind.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Know you will.

Anything else?

[makeitquick]

What... sorta things are on a farm?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

[...say what now?

It'll take Derek a few seconds to reply.]

Chickens. Cows. Sheep. A garden with edible plants.

[makeitquick]

[Know, know... don't know. Edible? Wow]

...Huh.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Take it you don't have much of that where you're from.

[makeitquick]

Hard to find edible anything in Haddyn which isn't processed.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

...They don't have you eating Soylent Green, do they?

[makeitquick]

What? Dunno what that is, so I'll say no.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

People.

And I'll gladly take that 'no'. Where in the heck do you get your food from?

[makeitquick]

Plants, places like that. Shipped to major centers and then to our plates.

[...]

People?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Literary reference. Dystopian society where they got so overpopulated, the world basically went under and one way the government decided to solve the food problem was to make rations out of people.

[makeitquick]

...Maybe that's what they eat in the Uppers. Who knows.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

...honestly wouldn't want to find out.

'Uppers'...so what does that make you, then?

[He's just trying to get a feel for the world, feel free to tell him to stfu]

[makeitquick]

Proud citizen of the Versi warren.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

And a warren is...?

[...something a rabbit lives in. And way too close to 'nest' for Derek's liking.]

[makeitquick]

You know. A warren.

[A beat] the bottom floor? ...It's home.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

So you're above ground at any rate.

[Good.]

How high do your...homes....go?

[makeitquick]

'Course we are. But... in the warren, maybe five, six stories up? The gate to the Uppers is further than that, 'course, but what we live in depends.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

So...five stories, then...empty space...and then above that those people fortunate enough to have money or whatever grants power and comfort in your world. Right?

[makeitquick]

Replace "empty space" with "all the warehouses, defunct old buildings, and all the car lanes you can ock" and that's about right.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Got it.

Doesn't sound like there's much green going on.

[makeitquick]

'Fraid not, really.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

What happened? Or do they tell you that?