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 Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:11 pm
"Oooh, we can try it! At the lake! It'll be fun, even if we're not very good at it." She took her move. "Soon I'll be taking all your pieces," she informed him. The game had her interest, if only because it seemed almost like a battle field to her. There had to be a strategy to winning, but she hadn't figured it out yet.
Next couple hours? Poor Toby. "The meeting will take that long?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:15 pm
"Well, hopefully not, but they can drag on. It's not for another half-hour and they generally take an hour or more." It depended upon how interesting they found you. Too interesting and they might be asking to 'run some tests.' Thankfully the era of not asking for permission were long, long gone... at least within the FBPI.
Dari moved a piece into a vulnerable position before one of Maia's, hoping she would notice.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:40 pm
Maia made a face. Poor Toby! He had to deal with a meeting for over an hour, and she'd sent him away too soon. She spotted Dari's move though, and set her hand on the piece in front of it, jumping to the square past his. She took his piece into her hand. "See, I told you I'd get all your pieces." The fact that she had so far only captured one piece didn't matter. She was certain she would win!
"When will schooling start?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:47 pm
Dari just smiled and continued the game.
"Tomorrow, if you're willing. We can go over specifics when Toby returns, or tomorrow morning." He could also give her the run-down right now, but he felt like it might upset her.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:33 pm
Tomorrow huh? That gave her time to organize her room, and her thoughts. "Tomorrow's be okay," She said. "Did you have to go through it too?" she asked, as she moved a piece. "I mean. I assume you did from the way you talked about it when I met you. What's it like?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:40 pm
"Well, my situation was slightly different than most others," Dari said, regardless of the fact that he was greatly understating the differentiations. "I was aboard a ship that crashed, and they just sort of scraped me off the walls. My people are only matter inside... well. Further solidified matter." He kept his eyes on the game so they could keep playing while he talked. "At first they thought I was a substance, which was fine. I couldn't prove otherwise, though, until I had all the proper parts and chemical makeup to create them, so I had to eat. At first I was in a petri dish, but I ate most of that, and then the flask and the beaker, then I started to eat through the lab table and the plastic bin. I kept getting bigger. I grew an eye. I was learning, but they didn't know I was learning. Toby was on my case, and I was the only survivor, so he took some time with me. When they were debating throwing me out he defended that I was potentially an organism, not a substance, although no part of me matches the human definition of life. I have no cells, only intake and no output, so on and so forth. With his help, I became this. Without him, I would have been condemned to a trash heap and incinerated."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:02 pm
Maia moved a piece in front of one of Dari's, but seemed to have momentarily forgotten the game. She certainly didn't seem to notice that one Of her pieces was in danger. Her expression had darkened. "They would've thrown you away?" she asked, narrowing her eyes. Human life. Ha. Some humans thought they knew everything! She got up from her seat and wrapped her arms around Dari.
"I'm glad Toby saved you. Now tell me everyone who tried to incinerate you. I'll punch their face."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:07 pm
"Oh, don't worry. They've all apologized or gave horrified expressions at the sight of me as of now. A great number of them are no longer working here." Dari smiled and patted Maia's back and then pointedly made a move separate from jumping her vulnerable piece. He was alright, he was here now and he was happy, what had happened in the past could not be changed, only accepted.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:16 pm
"I'm still mad." Of course they'd apologize now, he looked like a person. He acted like one too. It didn't change the fact that they hadn't done enough research to realize he'd been alive. She glanced towards the board. "Hey, you could've jumped me there," She pointed out, before jumping him instead.
"Did Toby have schooling?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:10 pm
Dari smiled. Caught. He made a safe move.
"Toby was human, so he didn't need to schooling I did. He needed rehabilitation, and then training to become an agent. He's actually quite a figure for his race now."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:23 pm
Toby was human before? Huh. Well that certainly limited the races possible. She made a movemove, contemplating this. It didn't really matter, what he was, she decided. He was a sweet guy no matter what. Just like Dari. "He's pretty awesome," She said. "But so are you."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:36 pm
The alien's eyes flickered up from the board a moment and a smile crossed his face.
"I'm sure he would appreciate that sentiment," Dari replied with a little nod, "as do I. I think you're pretty 'awesome' yourself." People used that word incorrectly all the time. More often that correctly, actually. Slang was fascinating.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:12 pm
"I'll be sure to tell him," Maia said. "So schooling was different for you than it will be for me, and Toby didn't have it, just training, do you have any idea how it's going to be like for me?" she asked. Would it be dull? Interesting? Who would be teaching her?
"You're coming tonight aren't you?" She asked. She couldn't imagine staying in her apartment alone. It seemed lonely. Like the desert.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:28 pm
"It will be pretty basic, just a lot of rules for living as human and protecting yourself, maybe a little bit about your race, if you'd like. They can set you up with an English teacher if you want to read and write in English, or nearly any language, really. It'll all depend on what you want to learn and how long you're staying."
He had learned humanity from humans like a human child. Maia had lived in the ocean. There were bound to be some discrepancies.
"Coming tonight? To what?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:48 pm
Basic stuff, huh. Rules about living as a human: it seemed to Maia that there were an awful lot of rules. "It'd be nice to learn about selkies," She said. "And reading and writing would be useful." It'd certainly make using Google an awful lot easier.
"To my apartment. You'll visit, won't you?"
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