Getting to Know You(r Roommates) [BACKDATED to 16-18th Domino]

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Who: The occupants of Cabin 4-B
What: Mutual introductions (well, not counting one Network thread...); miscellaneous chores and other housekeeping duties.
Where/When: See above!


Nita didn't know much about either of her roommates as of yet - she'd only just gotten here, after all! - but she'd gotten to know a little more about the train, and what it meant now that she was on it.

Of course, it'd be a whole lot easier to find the next-level answers if she knew she could at least get along with the people she'd be sharing a room with! Namine was one part of the equation, but their other roommate was still almost entirely a mystery.

Plus, knowing their backstory wasn't the same thing as knowing who made their own bed, who snored, who went to bed with late-night snacks prepared...

There was a lot of ground to cover, was Nita's point. She'd just have to take it as it came.

[OOC: There's no thread order here! This is like a more fleshed-out version of the Handwaved-CR meme.]

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Really? I've never seen stars like that. The stars, where I'm from are worlds and they go out when the worlds light goes out."

It didn't make sense but it was the truth as far as Naminé knew it.

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That's... it's a metaphor Nita has heard before, certainly, but mostly as a metaphor.

"Well, we may get to see some red stars while we visit the worlds out here. Just for comparision."

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It wasn't a metaphor for Naminé or her world but then, she didn't know that.

"Red stars?" Her brow furrowed. "I don't think I have seen red stars. They're always white light. What world is a red star?"

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"It's a stage in a star's life cycle," Nita explained.

"Red stars are cooler than yellow, white, or blue. ... The worlds you're familiar with don't change color naturally, do they?"

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"But I don't understand. If stars are worlds, how do they change color? Worlds aren't supposed to die..."

She really had no context to what Nita was trying to explain.

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Nita sighed. "That's entropy for you. Those stars don't usually have life living on them back home, I'll give you that..."

Naminé was probably going to learn a lot from Tony's science classes, even if most of it didn't apply to her world.

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"Huh? So where you're from Stars are just dots of light? Not worlds?" That was very confusing but after a short pause she accepted it as fact.

"That's... strange."

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"... More complex than just dots, but, yes."

Nita really was going to have to dig out some diagrams for this, wasn't she? Though the visuals in the Manual might be overkill on this matter.

"They have their own voices, too, if you know how to listen."

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"Voices?"

She blinked and looked even more confused.

"What do they say?"

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Nita paused - then laughed, embarrassed.

"It's a consequence of knowing the Speech; we can talk to everything, that way. All kind of beings, of matter and energy and beyond...

"Stars usually talk about the business of emitting light and heat, how their solar systems are doing, stuff like that. I'm no star specialist, though; that's more my sister's department."

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"The speech?" She repeated the word as if it was spoken in another language.

It was completely foreign to her and while she understood the general concept, it was a difficult thing for her to grasp in its entirety.

"Light and heat? I really don't understand. Your stars are different but where are the worlds? Can you see them in the sky with your stars?" In Naminés home, stars were entire worlds. They didn't admit heat though they admitted light... in a way.

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Nita nodded. "The language in which the worlds were built, they say. Enacture's a gift from the Powers, but people can still speak it whether or not they have that.

"And worlds tend to orbit stars. Like this!"

Quickly ducking out to grab her own journal (not her Manual, just her train-provided equipment this time), she sketched out a rudimentary solar system.

"You can see other planets in Earth's sky at night, though. They reflect the Sun's light too!"

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Naminé leaned forward and looked at the sketch. "That's the sun. Not a star... at least not where I am from." It was troubling that the same words had different and yet similar definition between the realities.

"I don't know who made the worlds."

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"That's the thing about the terminology," Nita pointed out.

"All suns are stars where I'm from, and vice-versa."

As for the other matter...

"They get mistaken for gods a lot, but They're not the same thing."

And the influence of the Powers on different worlds was, uh, variable. Not even accounting for the worlds not made by Them in the first place.