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 Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:39 pm
Yes, Columba is all yours and you can even go there if you like.
Sheena's tidbit of information, given when Columba had first awakened, wasn't properly absorbed or processed until she was reminded of it tonight. One touch of her cell phone and suddenly her horizons widened considerably.
"Whoooa..." Her senshi name was a constellation, so where, exactly, they were in space she had no idea. But it was a bright place. Thick white, heavy clouds rolled along attheir feet, blocking everything below the knees and creating the need for the strange building practices around them. Signs were posted on long poles jutting from the fogs, and buildings were created on stilts with brightly colored paths to cut through the fog on the lower levels and rope bridges above.
The particular building they were at the base of had a tall sign with "ROOST" carved into the heavy wood and a rope ladder next to them that would have long gone to decay if not for a strange substance it was coated in.
"This is... my homeworld?" She murmured, head craned up to the sky as she spun in a circle, like that would help her take it all in better.
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:03 pm
Other than her own asteroid, Hypnos had only ever been to Ixion's homeworld. It had been a very dark place, underground, and she'd fallen down a hole while she was there. In addition, her own asteroid had nearly drowned her during her first visit. This history gave Hypnos a caution on top of excitement that followed new worlds.
Eyes closed and legs bent slightly, Hypnos made sure she wasn't going to fall anywhere like she had when she was on Hypnos. Once she determined a relative feeling of safety, her blue eyes opened to a haze. It was quite foggy compared to her own asteroid.
"Oh, this is so different!" Her voice exclaimed as she carefully looked around at the tall sign that read "ROOST" on a heavy wood and rope ladder.
"I wonder what that means?" She asked, her hand delicately pointing to the words.
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:31 pm
"Huh... maybe it's like the pokemon move?" Columba theorized. This was the first time she'd been off earth, no matter what she told Aquarius, and she was eager to explore. Though, she did make one note.
"Everything is away from the clouds... maybe we should... go up."
That and the clouds were cold, and she was in shorts. Testing one foot on the ladder's lower rung, she seemed satisfied it would hold and started to climb up to the circular building at the top of the stilts it was built on.
"I wonder what people did here. The guardian cat I talked to when I woke up said there used ta' be people here..." And then another thought, "So... is this like my secret homebase clubhouse type thing?" It was the only use she could find for having such a place.
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:44 pm
"The pokemon movie?" Hypnos asked in a manner that suggested she wasn't actually asking a question but instead trying to work it out in her own thoughts. She wouldn't work it out though because she'd never seen the series or any of the movies.
Shivering slightly and covering her arms by wrapping them around her chest, Hypnos nodded her head. She made haste behind Columba, pausing on the ladder as she pondered the things Columba was asking. What did people do here? Hypnos could only imagine they flew around or something because they seemed to be in the sky.
"Yes! Only you and those you can bring with you are allowed to come here!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:59 pm
"No, the move!" Columba corrected very matter of factly as she made it to the deck and spent some time stomping on boards to make sure they were safe by way of not falling to her death.
"It's an attack but not really because your pokemon just heals itself. It's a flying type move."
She ran around the small, circular building until she came to the door and popped her head in. "Helloooooo?" She waited for the echo before she asked "What do you think happened to all the people here?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:10 pm
The correction didn't help any. Hypnos didn't know anything about pokemon other than what a pikachu looked like. It was a very limited generalization of knowledge. She didn't take too much time to think about it though, more focused on following Columba up the ladder until she too made it to the deck. By this time Columba had stomped on it enough to qualify its safety but with Hypnos' weight added to it she quite gingerly stepped on it just in case.
"I'm sorry I have no idea," she mumbled, her face somewhat red from embarrassment. She didn't play the games nor did she watch the television and although it wasn't anything super important it was one less thing she had in common with her friend.
Unlike Columba who ran around, Hypnos only moved a couple steps as she quite gingerly tested the planks below her out. She should have had enough faith in the fact Columba was running around but it wasn't until she heard an echo of Columba's question that she followed it over to her.
"I don't know. There is no one on my homeworld either, at least not that I could find..."
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:28 pm
"Well, the cat told me there are no people on any homeworlds," Columba admitted, completely glossing over poor, red face Hypnos and the pop culture fail.
"But it's weird because obviously there used to be!" She pushed her way into the dusty building, littered with fragments of furniture and strange artifacts. "No body would build this stuff and jus' leave, right? That would be even weirder."
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:44 pm
"How would the cat know? It isn't like they've been here before..." she thought questioningly. However, there didn't seem to be any people around but it still begged to question how the cat would know that.
"Maybe there is a clue to what happened to everyone around here," she said as she followed Columba into the dusty building, looking at the strange fragments of the past littered across the floor.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:54 am
"That's a good point! But she also knew my senshi name, so..." Columba paused. "I guess I just kind of assumed she knew everything!"
She wandered around, looking at the weird furniture. It almost looked like teller stalls at a bank or the DMV, or something, with sectioned and separated desks and chairs and counters.
"I guess it's one more mystery..." She pondered. She had acquired a few other ones too. "Hey... Do you know anything about the organ smuggling ring thing from a few years ago?" She was banking on the fact Hypnos had been a senshi for a long time, and that what made it into the papers definitely wasn't the whole truth.
Was it rude to intrude on Tara's privacy? Probably, but Columba didn't think about things like that. First and foremost, her main concern was the fact her cousin had a secret and she wanted to know.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:27 am
The knowledge of a senshi name wasn't anything new to Hypnos at this point in her life but it made sense. One of their abilities were to awaken and guide senshi so when they were available to them then it shouldn't be difficult for them to discover a simple fact like their name. However, how could the cat know something about their home world? They all differed and surely they couldn't all be empty! Even if they were, how would they know? Hypnos never would suspect such a thing.
"The organ smuggling ring?" He voice squeaked a tad as she asked, her mind thinking about a reference to such a thing. She might have been a senshi for a long time but that was just slightly before it. She'd heard things, of course, but she wasn't there to actually witness any of it. She'd met several Zodiac senshi, but she had no idea of the connection.
"I'm afraid I only moved into Destiny City a few years ago. It was just before then I believe?" She didn't sound so sure.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:18 pm
"Huh... weird."
The mystery would be put to rest for another day.
"Well it's pretty boring and dusty here. Maybe next time we can bring stuff," She concluded, giving a toppled chair a light kick and stirring up the dust around it.
"I guess the idea of a place of my own is cool but once we're here it's just kind of... empty."
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:34 pm
"I can show you my world!" Hypnos' smile absolutely beamed at the idea, her phone already in hand.
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