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[falsesmile]

Who: Ves (falsesmile) and general!
When: Day 6, afternoon
Where: The Ruined Hull
What: General exploration post!

[ The Ruined Hull has been unlocked! The go-team has been in the area for a while, the stay-team members who are so inclined have probably meandered over here somehow by now -- time to go exploring, but keep an eye on those suit power levels ♥ ]

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[ceruleo]

[ LOOK, he went through a lot of effort to keep you alive, he's not gonna let you kick the bucket from some fruit! ]

Super sour? Man, don't eat any more--we gotta wait.

[dateme]

[ Lance......u a sweetie ]

Until what, my stomach melts? It's seriously just...super-sour.

[ .... ]

I don't feel sick Lance. [ "I'm okay." ]

[ceruleo]

[ elevator pitch: 'lowkey fuccboi u can take home 2 mama. will love ur mama more than u' ]

Have you like, never taken a biology class? You could be fine now and puking your guts up in an hour!

[dateme]

[ i laughed really hard, you're terrible ]

I could puke it up right now if you're worried♥ [ Inui holds up a hand and wiggles his fingers. ]

[ceruleo]

[ Eyeroll. ]

This suit has seen enough puke, thanks. We gotta see what kinda effect it has. C'mon.

[ He sits down in the moss, patting the spot next to him. ]

Sit down.

[dateme]

[ It's oddly...not dorkish of Lance, and that's probably why Inui has no problem coming over to sit down beside him, yawning a little as he leans back on his hands. ]

Pretty crazy that we're in an actual alien spaceship, huh?

[ceruleo]

[ Lance is about to answer 'sort of, not really', when he remembers that to Inui, it is pretty crazy.

Which makes him realize that, yeah, it is definitely pretty crazy. ]

Y'know, not too long ago, I didn't even think aliens existed.

[dateme]

Ashla's my first. [ Inui nods to acknowledge Lance, looking up at the ceiling as he inwardly hopes whatever he just ate doesn't melt his insides. ] I always sorta pictured them looking like monsters, you know? But she's actually pretty cute.

[ceruleo]

[ The corners of Lance's mouth curl up, and he lets himself flop next to Inui, looking up at the leaves of all the trailing plants. ]

Right? Some of 'em do look pretty gross [ thats so racist ] but the movies weren't kidding about space babes. Have you met Allura? Tall, dark skin, pointy ears with white hair? Totally gorgeous. And Ashla...man, you think she's into me?

[ Nobody's into you, Lance. ]

[dateme]

I thought she was an elf, [ Inui admits with a blink, glancing over briefly before he follows Lance's gaze upwards and look idly at the sunbeams streaming down. It's remind him of a zoo if it weren't for the metal hull bit. ]

I don't think Ashla's interested in anyone though... Too bad. I'd date her. [ Just saying. But he's willing to date any girl so long as they're cute. ]

[ceruleo]

Allura's an Altean, and pretty much the first alien I ever met. She totally swooned at the sight of me.

[ Small detail: she was coming out of cryosleep after ten thousand years...

Lance's mouth presses into a thin line at Inui mentioning he'd date Ahsoka; he's about to say he called dibs, but that's too gross even for him. ]

[dateme]

Swooned? Haha, no way... [ He doesn't buy anyone swooning over Lance unless they're about to pass out from oxygen deprivation. Sure Lance can be "heroic" and honestly? Actually pretty cool when shit hits the fan, but nothing he's seen about his ability to handle girls suggests swooning. Just saying. ]

Actually that reminds me...you remember who woke you up?

[ceruleo]

[ He's about to respond 'yeah' when his mouth snaps shut.

Because the answer is no, he has no clue. ]

Um...? [ Man, that can't be right. But he'd woken up in the desert alone under the burning sun, and it had taken several minutes before he'd found Allura. ] I don't remember. I don't think anyone did. It just opened by itself.

[dateme]

...Wait, you serious? [ That wasn't the answer he was expecting. Inui remembered his rude awakening--Ashla--and he expected Lance to be the same. Huh. ]

Was anyone else awake when you came to? [ You weren't the first, were you Lance? Because he's sorta been trying to figure out who that was. ]

[ceruleo]

No, it was just me. [ Because NO ONE HE HAD A TDM THREAD WITH ENDED UP APPING. ] I ended up finding Allura later, but she was alone, too. Dunno who opened her pod, but hers definitely opened after mine.

[dateme]

[ LANCE ARE YOU THE MYSTERIOUS FIRST-TO-WAKE-UP BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE BALLER, Inui would have questions for you my friend. ]

Did you open anyone else's pod before you found her? [ Lance may or may notice that Inui isn't just goofing off around with his questioning now; he's actually almost serious in the way her asks.

Not entirely solemn, but. Yeah. ]

[ceruleo]

[ He's starting to see where this line of questioning is going and ??? ]

I opened a couple but uh...they weren't...um.

[ He looks visibly uncomfortable. He'd opened some breached, dead pods. He doesn't want to think about what was inside. ]

I didn't open any more until I saw her.

[dateme]

.... [ Inui pauses and considers this for a moment. If Lance woke up alone and only found empty pods, but still managed to find Allura by herself without having been woke by him then there a few possible outcomes.

1. Allura woke first and faked being found after
2. Lance was woken by someone and they just didn't stick around to say hi
3. Lance is lying
4. Someone else woke Lance and Allura

He's not sure which is more likely without having met Allura himself. ]

Was she inside a pod?

[ceruleo]

She was digging around her pod when I got there. She'd just found her extra rations.

[ Meaning it couldn't have been more than a few minutes. ]

Who woke you up?

[dateme]

[ Hmm...which means someone did come before the both of them. Inui'll have to keep looking then. ]

Ashla. She was yelling and banging on it and scared the heck out of me.

[ceruleo]

That seems like her, yeah.

[ Spoken with a puff of amusement, before he turns his face completely towards Inui. ]

Why do you think we got sent here?

[dateme]

Don't you mean "abandoned"? [ he asks with some amusement, finally flopping down onto his back and just enjoying the feel of soft moss beneath him. ] Those pods were way too old.

I think we've been here a while.

[ceruleo]

[ Inui's words hit a tender place. Lance's stomach coils into knots, thinking on the family he left behind. If he'd known then what he knew now, he'd videocall more often. Tell his mama how much he loves her. Tell his dad the Garrison isn't that bad. Tell them he's fine, and that their middle child did amount to something.

But he can't go back. He doesn't even have Blue here; no Hunk, no Pidge, no Shiro. Just Allura, and increasingly he thinks on how she lost everything and survived. Lance won't kid himself: he isn't remotely that strong. ]

That's dumb. I think I would've remembered getting kidnapped and stuffed in a pod or whatever.

[dateme]

Me too, but I don't think any of us do. [ Inui's already thought about the possibility that his family's long dead and he's all alone in the world. Heck, he thought he'd be long dead by now too, and Lance and Clark are probably the only reasons he isn't if he's honest.

He should probably thank them for that sometime. ]

The last thing I remember is going to bed for the night. It was winter. [ So getting used to the desert had been pretty hard at first ]

[ceruleo]

[ Lance is trying very, very hard not to think about it. But. ]

The last thing I remember was escaping from the Galra by the skin of our tails, except those jerks totally messed up our wormhole.

[ He breathes in, sharply. ]

Where'd you live?