A return

[knifewithnoname]

Who: Little One and Open
Where: Luggage, Cabin 1:C and then throughout the train
When: Egret, day 21
What: Little One wakes up in a suitcase and then investigates any changes in her time away
Warnings:

Waking: Luggage

This had happened to her before. A voice from the screens and then waking up in a suitcase. But this time she had been on the mission and now she was here.

Why? Why had they taken her off the mission? She had been doing well. She had figured out the stupid space ships and the guns. But she had still disappeared and was back in a suitcase. She sat up with a sigh and looked around, instincts kicking in. Checking for danger, for people, for anyone who was too close.

Once she decided it was safe she clambered out and moved towards the exit. She paused near the door to bring up the ICP and click onto the passenger list. New people. Some names missing. She did her best to commit them to memory. She checked the day, she had been gone a while. Longer than last time. Most people were still here though. That was good.

Cabin 1, C

The first place she headed to was her room. She still had the bag she had carried on the mission and she wanted to put it down before she went elsewhere. She headed to her room quickly and opened the door with a wave of her ticket. It was strange that things that had seemed so strange only months ago now felt familiar.

She entered, planning just to throw her bag onto her bag and get changed out of the flight suit and into trousers and a hoodie.

Throughout the train

She is headed to the kitchen, as she's pretty hungry but not so hungry that she isn't going to investigate the train as she goes. Checking up on people she knows, watching them from a distance. She takes note of new people, doing her best to match their faces to the pictures she had seen on the ICP. It's difficult though, there are a lot of new people to keep track of.

But she watches, listening and taking in everything she sees as she makes her way from carriage to carriage.

Comments

[sendiintheclown]

"You are very welcome. Thank you for your input on making it." Trowa couldn't help beaming at the little girl. She was so sweet. "Do you have any favorite foods? My team is on cooking duty, but I'm sure I could get some help making a special request."

[knifewithnoname]

She grinned, though she knew she had actually done very little in terms of making it. She would still take the praise.

"I do be liking honey. It do be being the best food."

[sendiintheclown]

Trowa had a strong urge to poke Buttercup's nose, finding her to be positively adorable. "Honey is very tasty. Especially on toast."

[knifewithnoname]

She nodded, agreeing. Honey was the best food and honey on toast was very nice. "Honey do be being the best food. It do be going with anything."

[sendiintheclown]

Trowa turned a little to lean on the counter, sighing softly as he did so. "It's a shame we don't have a bee hive on the train. We could have fresh honey right from the source if we did."

[knifewithnoname]

"I do no be knowing if anyone do be being a bee farmer though."

Which would make collecting the honey hard, she had no idea how it was done. She imagined fighting bees was involved and that could be tricky.

[sendiintheclown]

"Hmm, yes. We would need to have someone who knows how to get the honey without getting stung." Trowa knew it could be done, but it wasn't a skill he'd needed for the war and so he hadn't bothered with it. "Perhaps we could get some from the train's stores. Or ask for it when we get to a platform."

[knifewithnoname]

"We could be buying some." She said with a shrug. "The honey here to be being nice but it do no be being as good as the honey from Gauig, that do be being the best honey."

She has a lot of points, she wondered if she would get actual Gauigen honey if she asked for it.

[sendiintheclown]

"I can't say I've ever that that honey. The best I've had came from one of the L1 colonies. There's a family that grows very high quality clover, and they keep bees to collect the honey. It's better than some of the terrestrial honeys I've tried." Trowa smiled warmly, remembering the time Cathy had bought a jar. She'd treated it like gold, for obvious reasons.

[knifewithnoname]

"Maybe we should all be buying honey from our worlds and then be tasting them all to be seeing what do be being the best."

Because she was interested in his best honey and to see how it compared to other worlds.

[sendiintheclown]

"That is a very good idea, I will have to keep that in mind for if I have enough points. First, I have to buy a bear, since I owe one to the bear fund. Then, I've been wondering about requesting a pet." Trowa smiled warmly at Buttercup as he finished off his salad. "Do you like animals?"

[knifewithnoname]

"Mister Stark's bear thing?" She wrinkled her nose, she sort of understood it. He had explained it when he had given her, but the concept of teddy bears was still strange. Still hers sat watch on her bed, because it seemed to please Tony that she hadn't just abandoned it somewhere.

"I do no be minding them, when they do no be biting."

[sendiintheclown]

"Yes, the bear thing." Trowa smiled as he nodded. "And I will not let my pet bite you. I'm planning to get a cat of some kind, they don't tend to bite as often."

[knifewithnoname]

She raised an eyebrow. "I do not be thinking you did ever be fighting with a cat."

Though they tended to scratch more, biting still happened. Cats could be vicious.

[sendiintheclown]

"Back in my home, I worked in a circus. Even though I'm not the lion tamer, the lions like me a lot. And I like them, but they're too big for this train, so I have to pick something smaller. They're very smart, they just need the occasional reminder that what is affectionate to another lion can be painful to a human."

[knifewithnoname]

"What do a circus be being?" She blinked at him, she knew what a lion was. Lions were huge monster cats that weren't actually monsters. But they were huge and had big sharp teeth!

Lions liked him? As more than a snack? He must be very impressive.

[sendiintheclown]

"It's a group of traveling entertainers. There are all sorts of performers in the group, like those that do tricks high up in the air, the lion and tiger tamers who perform with the cats. My sister is a knife thrower, and in addition to displays of balance and juggling, I'm the one she throws knives at."

[knifewithnoname]

She understands traveling entertainers, she's even seen a couple of street performers who performed in Gauig. She hasn't seen any performing cats though, lions or otherwise.

She also has seen a knife thrower and she looks him over. "You do be having all your fingers and I can no be seeing any holes in you so she must be being good."

Knife throwing performers aimed to miss, not to hit. She knows that.

[sendiintheclown]

"She's very good. She only ever hit me once, the first time we performed together." Which had been partly his own fault.

[knifewithnoname]

She laughed, "Well at least she did be getting better!" Practice made you better after all and it looked like she hadn't hit him bad or he had at least gotten a good healer.

[sendiintheclown]

"Yes, I am very thankful for that." Trowa laughed a little and offered Buttercup a hand down from the counter. "Should we go see if anyone else wants any of this salad we made?"

[knifewithnoname]

She took his hand and hopped down with a grin, "Yes, we can be seeing who do be wanting it."