[action] Moving day!

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

[Jessica has a wagon, a bulbasaur, and several helpful robots. The odd caravan is wearing a light path between the fortress and Beaumont, bearing various bundles of stuff: clothes, bedclothes, a stock of items identifiable as healy things from Sephiroth's home, and various nerd implements, among other things.]

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[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Everyone pretty much disappeared. And apparently I just can't deal with the whole "being alone" thing.

Yeah, I have to admit, the robots are cool. I didn't really mind the monsters, but they mostly just ignored me. Their place is nice, actually. Though I guess I have weird taste.

[hopelessdreamer]

Oh...sorry.

[she looks sympathetic, and reaches out to pat Jessica's shoulder.] I didn't mean to hit a sore spot. But to be fair, not many people can.

They ignored you? It's good that you were safe, at least, but...I wonder why.

I didn't see it for myself--I stuck to guarding the mansion for Miss Akiha.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Not really a sore spot, just... kind of a surprise. I guess I'm more used to, um... bustle and stuff.

My guess is that I look, um, monstrous enough that they figured I wasn't worth the effort. I think there was at least one other person around who they weren't attacking or anything.

Is that where you ended up living?

[hopelessdreamer]

I hear you there. [she almost prefers Akiha's place to living by herself back home.]

Oh, that's-- [awkward. She doesn't want to agree aloud, because Jessica is a nice girl, but Gal does catch herself staring every now and then, still.] Well, at least...you're safe.

[she nods.] I was cooking for them until their actual cook showed up. Now I just do odd jobs around the house.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Didn't know you could cook. Regular cooking, or baking, or...?

[hopelessdreamer]

I know a little bit of everything, but I'm best at just regular food. I was travelling with friends for a while, and we all took turns cooking.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

The whole saving the world thing?

I never really got into regular cooking. I guess it's too much of a vague thing. And of course Mom and Dad only did microwave meals, so I didn't have anyone to bug me into learning it except Granma.

[hopelessdreamer]

That's it. We stayed at some inns, so we could get food there, but when we were camping out on the road it wasn't as easy. I guess you could say I'm used to roughing it.

Do you mind if I ask--"microwave meal?"

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Hah, sounds like a good talent to have. I never was very good at it. I'm addicted to indoor plumbing and climate control.

Uhhh... they're premade meals that you use a microwave oven to cook. That's basically a really fast oven. It works by making the water molecules vibrate and thus heat things up with friction.

[hopelessdreamer]

Hey, camping out is only fun when you factor out the bugs, the rain, the heat, the cold--and, uh, the monsters trying to kill you.

That sounds pretty useful--much be must faster than trying to boil water over an open flame any day.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

We only had the non-monster stuff. Unless you count the time the counselors tried to scare everyone in the middle of the night. That was kind of annoying.

Yeah, it's amazingly helpful for just about everything. More expensive than cooking from scratch and usually worse for you, but I'll take that exchange for more time to do stuff I like.

[hopelessdreamer]

Well, here's we've got all the time in the world, right? But did you make one, maybe? Could I see it?

[pause. Oh, she's getting carried away, isn't she.]

I'll help you move in first, of course.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

[BEAM! Gal you are cute when you are nerding out.]

Didn't think to make one, since we don't exactly need to make our own stuff, but... I could dirt one together. It won't be exactly the same, since I'm, y'know, not an expert on 'em or anything, but it'll probably work about right. Even if it's pink.

[hopelessdreamer]

[but technology!!]

Anything is fine. All the fontech--uh, technology from your world sounds fascinating.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I tried remaking some of my old science magazines a while back... [She rummages through a parcel and comes up with a few issues] If you wanted to see some more. It's not totally accurate and all, but...