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➸ Slamming the door to fridge shut with her foot, Pria slowly sauntered back to the captain's seat, placing a little plate of dried fish jerky onto the table next to the chair before hopping in and resting her feet up on the dashboard without a care in the world. She reached out for the plate and grabbed one of the smaller pieces, nibbling on it as she looked at the holographic map currently being displayed on the window, translucent enough for her to see the stars behind it. It was pretty, but she'd seen it enough times for it to lose it's magic pretty quick. The map functioned as a radar, and she'd studied it enough times to know what was what. Currently, though, she had her eye trained on one red dot that was moving pretty fast and headed straight towards another, bigger dot. That one, she knew for sure was an asteroid. The other, maybe some type of meteor? She wasn't sure. The two eventually hit on screen, and Pria sighed. Maybe it was worth checking out? At the very least, she might get a few more rocks for the collection. Maybe she could even dump out some of those stupid baskets and clear up some space in the cargo hold. Finishing the rest of the dried fish in one gulp, she turned off the hologram and leaned forward, pressing a couple of keys on the dashboard to set a course for the crash. It wasn't all that far away, and she was bored anyway, so why not?

➸ In the time it took to actually get to the crash, Pria had finished most of the fish off. There were only three strips left. She was still kind of hungry, but the sight that awaited her stifled her appetite just a bit. A ship was embedded into the Asteroid. She didn't recognize the technology- It looked very high tech, not like a gummi ship at all. With a quick press of a button, she disabled auto pilot and took over manually, bringing Verity in close. Landing on an asteroid was a dangerous venture, but she'd done it plenty of times before. She circled around, looking for the flattest bit of rock she could find before finally finding a spot worth landing on and bringing the ship down and parking it safely, anchoring it to the asteroid so that it didn't float off.

➸ With that done, she exited the ship and went onto the other one. The scent of smoke was in the air, although she wasn't quite sure where. There didn't seem to be all that much fire around. What there were of, however, were bodies. Lots of them. Men and women, all wearing some kind of uniform. She didn't recognize it at all, though. Deep down, Pria knew this was a sign that she should probably go back and just fly off of the asteroid before this ship exploded or something, but... Well, it just felt like she had to be here. Plus, there had to be something valuable on here, right? All these folks were loaded to the teeth with what looked like weapons. Hopefully none of them were alive, or she'd have some explaining to do. Stepping around a couple of puddles of blood, she continued exploring, eventually stumbling upon a pair of big doors that lead into a vast room with some... Weird box in the middle. It looked like a cage, honestly. Lots of stuff was all busted up, and all kinds of things were on fire. "What the hell...?" She muttered, walking closer and stopping about three feet away. Up close, she could see that this box had something deeper within. Carefully, she ducked under and got a full view of the inside of the box. Just... Another box. Glass, though, with a big padlock on it. Fancy, too. Whatever was concealed within looked a lot like ice, with something even deeper inside, although it was obscured too much for her to really know. Something valuable, maybe?

➸ Without a second thought, she took her pickaxe from her belt and raised it high. "Better be jewels!" The thought strengthened her as she brought the pick down, slamming the sharp mining tool into the lock so hard that it shattered to pieces and crumbled to the floor. Fancy as it was, it didn't stand a chance against good old fashioned brute strength. Whoever paid for that lock had seriously gotten ghipped. What a waste of munny. Sliding her pickaxe back into her belt loop, she didn't waste any time pulling the door of the cage open. It was... Ice. Just like she'd thought. Raising a hand, she placed it against the cold surface and closed her eyes, relishing the smooth feel. It made her think of snow. She hadn't seen it in a while... Maybe, after she hauled whatever this was back to the ship, she'd go somewhere cold or something. When she opened her eyes again, she wished she hadn't. Her hand was glowing. Glowing! Pria wanted to pull away, and yet... She couldn't. She kept her hand there until a heartbeat echoed from deep within the ice. She could feel the beat hum through it, and then through her. What had she found?

➸ Her hands weren't shaking. They weren't shaking at all. Or at least, that's what she tried to think, just to get the quivering to stop. Unfortunately, her attempt to trick her own mind wasn't working very well, if at all. How could she go and get herself into a mess like this? This was what stupid people did. This was what people who wanted to die did. Last time she checked, she wasn't suicidal but apparently today has proved otherwise. Perhaps it was cruel, but for now, she was just pretending that the whole thing didn't happen. That she didn't have some weird plant lady on board her ship. Once they were far enough away from the asteroid, she turned the ship around and gazed out the window passively, staring at the crashed ship and the asteroid it had crashed into. Might as well watch the fireworks while she could. She let the gummi idle and waited a couple minutes, staring intently. Pria still had no idea what kind of technology could make something so sophisticated yet clearly worthless- Gummi ships were better, they didn't crash when they exploded. After a couple of minutes, the explosion she'd been waiting for sent the asteroid into bits and pieces, with lots of shrapnel from the ship. Maybe one day she'd come back to the area and salvage it, but today, she was getting out of here.

➸ She turned the ship away, setting a course for... Wherever. Pria actually had no idea where to go, now. Twilight Town, Traverse Town? The choices were slim. "If we'd stayed on there just a few extra minutes, we'd have been toast." Her thoughts were starting to weigh on her like a brick. Craning her head back towards the woman, she frowned. "If I didn't come, she would have been toast." The idea of that made her mouth go dry and ashy. Quickly, she turned her face back to the sea of stars that she was navigating through, trying to stifle the think train that was currently running wild, but to no avail. The lady had looked so innocent. She'd looked at all those bodies and she'd seemed like she was gonna cry. What kind of person cried for folks like that? Were they friends? It didn't seem like it, considering the fact that they'd had her in a cage.

➸ She glanced back at the woman one more time, as quickly as possible before setting her gaze back on the horizon. Had she been praying? "Thanking the stars we're alive, maybe." That would make sense. Suddenly, Pria felt a little uncomfortable. She still had no idea what this person's name was, or why she was in a seed. The girl opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't really think of anything to say. It was like her brain was just thinking too fast to spout out a coherent sentence. Damn, that was so stupid. So, so stupid. "You know what? ******** it." She thought, setting a course for Twilight Town. A nice quiet place. Traverse Town was too noisy. "And I don't have enough from for the guilt baskets, anyway." The folks thankful to her parents may have considered their baskets full of gifts to be, well, gifts. Symbols of caring. But Pria new better. They just felt bad. That was all. Maybe they could find something nice in Twilight Town. Thinking of the blood that the other girl had all over her, she wondered if she ought to bust one open just this once and maybe see if there were clothes in one of them. If not, use the munny inside to get her something while they washed the old stuff off.

➸ Pria munched on the last bits of dried fish on her plate as they zoomed through the sky. She could've gotten up and walked around a bit, but... Sitting in her chair pretending to actually be steering was a lot easier than waltzing around in silence. Besides, if something actually did go wrong, she'd be right here at the wheel. Stars and lights streaked by as they made their way, until eventually the world was within sight. Switching off auto pilot, she straightened in her seat and brought the ship down, landing it nicely in the Sandlot. Hopefully the local kids wouldn't mind that much. The area was a little grassier than she remembered it, but Pria didn't care at that much. Grass didn't take long to grow. Some kid probably thought it looked better than boring old dirt. The second she shut off the ship- Or well, put it in idle, more like- and opened the hatch, Viridia was out and in the grass before the pilot could even blink. Snorting a bit, Pria just shook her head and stood up, taking her box with her

➸ Cradling the vine woven box like it was the most precious thing she'd even seen, she walked to the back of the ship and pressed a tiny blue button, which in turn opened a narrow door that lead to her sleeping quarters. Nothing too fancy, just a cloth hammock, a bookshelf, and a storage locker. Pria set the box on top of the bookshelf, admiring the way it looked against the other decorations. With the other clutter, it added up nicely. She stepped out and pressed the blue button again, closing the door with a mechanical whine. With her treasure safely hidden away, she walked over to the hatch, crossing her arms as she watched Viridia revel in the sunlight. The strange girl seemed so happy. Pria wondered if, maybe she'd stay here?

➸ Viridia looked up at her with a bright and cheery smile, and Pria returned it with a simple one of her own. A little less bright, a little less cheery, but probably the first genuine smile she'd had in a while. She even looked a little amused as Viridia pranced around in the twilight. "What a dork." She thought, although she didn't necessarily mean it as an insult. After a little bit, the other girl finally skipped back over and asked, "Thank you for bringing me here, where is here exactly?" Leaning against the ship, she looked around. "This is Twilight Town. It's a nice little place, kinda quiet. The kids around here are kinda funny, they like to play some weird little game called struggle. It's a little dumb, if you ask me. She pointed up at the sky. "The sun never goes down here. Just looks like it will." Looking up at the clock tower she wondered what the city might look like from up there. Probably kind of breathtaking, she figured. Maybe she could convince Viridia to go up there with her?

➸ "Oh god." The flurry of questions hit Pria like a truck, and for a second she didn't respond, mulling over what she could say. She'd been to a lot of worlds, but she couldn't really say which ones where her favorites- She liked Twilight Town for how quiet it was, but did that make it her favorite? "Um, I've been to a lot of worlds. I guess Twilight Town would be my favorite..." For now, anyway. She did her best to keep up with the questions, although she wasn't sure why. The whole thing with Viridia had softened her up, just a bit. "I was born on my ship but for now, we can count my home world as Traverse Town. We came here because my friend... Needed some sunlight." There. Everything was answered, more or less. The black haired girl introduced herself, and Pria gave a small semblance of a smile. "I'm Pria, and this is Viridia." She glanced up at the clocktower, and then back at Xion. "Looks like you had a long run."

➸ "What... is a Heartless?" It was such a... Normal conversation that Viridia's question caught her off guard, and she frowned. It was hard to imagine anyone not knowing what a heartless was, these days. Then again, Viridia seemed kind of lost in the ways of the world. Not to mention, she was some kind of plant lady so Pria cut her some slack. "Heartless are... Well, the ones I've seen are little shadowy creatures with bright yellow eyes. I don't know much about them. I know that they take hearts and that's about it, really." She'd only ever seen them once, and had gone through quite a bit of trouble to make sure that she never ever saw them again. She wasn't sure how to really explain it other than that. And she wasn't about to make things up about something so dangerous, either. "But, you don't have to worry. My ship isn't one of them... Although, I could see why someone might think so." She looked up at The Verity, inspecting it. It was pretty big, especially so considering it was just her on it all the time. A lot of the space inside was empty. She had a lot of rooms in there just waiting to be cleared out, not counting the storage room at the bottom of the ship. Actually... "Maybe I should clean out a room for Viridia...?" It was a thought for the future, really.

➸ Feeling a little awkward, she glanced around. The Heartless were a sobering topic, and a definite moodkiller. "So... About the ice cream. You said sea salt was pretty good, right?" She said, looking a little thoughtful. "Where would we find it? I don't think I've ever tried it." That was the truth. She'd never tried sea salt ice cream- She just didn't really like ice cream. But if it would get the group out of a sad talk about Heartless and all the bad things that went with them, she would suck it up and have a couple of bites.