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wilywars_archive ([personal profile] mosaic_archive) wrote in [community profile] random_cantina2012-07-18 11:08 pm
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Long overdue...

Spider's missed this place... but sometimes absences just can't be helped. Stuff comes up, things happen... stubborn kids want to go out to lunch armed like they're going to raid the place...

They'd all needed some adjustment time.

But here he is, after about four months. And unlike most times, this time he's not alone. He usually picks a nice seat where he can see the view and orders the same grilled strawberry cream sandwich and hot cocoa... but this time he'll look around for a spot with enough room to accommodate the seven kids with him.
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[personal profile] mosaic_archive 2012-09-05 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Or an E," says Spider. "Lots of times we'd hear then saying they thought the colonies needed more babies, and Enker still suspects them as having something to do with the last bunch left by the warehouse door."

Trouble's noticed the girls are hiding food in pockets for later, and will try to order uj cake if there is any. He doesn't think keeping food on you just in case is a bad habit, but does think he can help out and show them some useful options.
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[personal profile] random_xtras 2012-09-05 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I meant with the spiriting away of people who would die," explains the Changeling clone. "Do his Takers ever leave decoys so no one knows?"

Uj cake is available. So is lembas, and small pistachio cakes in clear wrappings. And different sorts of dried veggie bars and dried jerky things.
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[personal profile] mosaic_archive 2012-09-06 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Have to ask my uncles," says Spider. "He's been contracting out for pick-up, an I've heard it's no questions asked about just what went down."

Soon the kids are deep in discussion about which things make the best trail rations and trying various things. Seth's in on it too, listening and soaking up what he hears even though until recent he's stayed behind on Mars with Spider's parents and rather extended family. About a third of the girls' cold plate has 'mysteriously' reappeared as they find other items more suited to squirreling away in their various pockets.
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[personal profile] random_xtras 2012-09-09 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Makes for less of the wrong kinds of ripples in realities," notes Atin as he nods.

And Scrat? He's adding a few quiet comments to the conversation about food to carry. But he won't make suggestions unless the kids ask.
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[personal profile] mosaic_archive 2012-09-12 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll be sure an let 'em know about that, then," says Spider, who actually already is sending a message home about it. "We can find enough trouble without stirring up extra."

As for the kids, they don't mind asking, particularly Seth, and seem to have no problem including Scrat in the conversation.
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[personal profile] random_xtras 2012-09-12 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. It's not hard." Atin's grin says he's thinking of himself as he speaks. "Just stand still."

"This one is my favourite." Scrat takes a bit of dark and leathery looking stuff out of the little soft pouch at his hip and shows it to Seth. A salty/sweetish odor that's oddly enticing comes from the stuff.

[personal profile] mosaic_archive 2012-09-14 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"What is it?" asks Seth, curious. He's been in the Nexus often enough to know to ask that. Most of Zero's family being all too willing to share amusing stories about young Zero and fried grubs helps there too.
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[personal profile] random_xtras 2012-09-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pickled and dried sea plum," says the quieter of the two older clones as he takes his little belt knife and cuts the piece into bits enough for all the children and then offers them around. "Pickled in a bran bed and then dried in the sun where the salt air can touch it."

If they try it, they'll find it to be very tangy and flavourful. Also, needing much chewing.
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[personal profile] mosaic_archive 2012-09-19 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
The force sensitive twin girls don't sense any danger, and are therefore willing to give the unfamiliar food a try. The young Commandos also have no hesitation, since, well, it's food. And Seth is certainly curious enough.

Which means the conversation there soon goes silent as they're all busy trying to chew the stuff.

Spider's just been watching. They're good kids, no matter how much of a fuss Dynamo makes about the idea of having them along on the ship. And no matter how much his uncles tease that he's still one short of a proper set of eight...

Something else happens to cross his mind and he chuckles. "I'm probably leaving all kinds of ripples... not that I'm gonna let that stop me."
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