Video/Action

[terminally_clever]

[Action; Scorpio District]

[It's the first night of the Firefly Festival, and Fumi's out to observe the light show.  To anyone who's just met her for the first time since her arrival in Hinoto-Ri, it's probably a bit of an odd sight.  She's sitting on a small hill overlooking the festivities below and just watching the fireflies dancing through the air and lighting up the night sky with their brilliance, laptop nowhere to be found for a change.]

Ah... it's so amazing...

[The smile on her face and the sparkle in her eye are like nothing she's displayed since coming here.  She really seems to be genuinely enjoying herself, just sitting idly by while she takes a moment to enjoy the scene.]

[Video; 13th Hour; Leo District; locked to Yamato and Miyako Hotsuin]

[As the feed flickers on, Fumi's face is illuminated by the light from her COMP.  The room she's standing in is dark, so it's rather hard to see what's behind her.]

Chief.  Miyako.  You're both going to want to see this.  Meet me in the Leo District.

Comments

[greyerrant]

My homeworld has few animals that were not imported from Terra. Cats, dogs, smaller birds, and grox, mostly. It was a mining and later hive planet, so there was little in the way of... local fauna.

[ This was his way of indirectly admitting he didn't know much about animal behavior or biology, and also suggesting he was curious about it. Whether Fumi will pick up on that is of course, up to her. ]

[terminally_clever]

A rather inhospitable environment, I assume?

[Fumi's not that great at people, so she's either missed that cue or has glossed over it entirely on purpose.]

[greyerrant]

You could say that. It was a huge, empty place with a lot of burned-out mining industry. The only thing Cthonia produced in my time was gangs.

[terminally_clever]

Who was in charge there?

[greyerrant]

Depends on the time period. Initially, it was the spire nobles and the administrators of the old mines, and the gang leaders.

Eventually Horus Lupercal, my genesire, took charge of the world and made it a far better place.

[terminally_clever]

Well, at least your world and mine seem to have that in common.

(ooc: you're on the warned list for AC, you need to check in by tomorrow night or they're dropping you)

[greyerrant]

How so?

[terminally_clever]

They were both cesspools of wasted potential until someone strong came along and fixed things.

[greyerrant]

I wonder if your world's eventual fate will end up as unfortunate as Cthonia's. Horus led us into a golden age only to be led astray by his own pride. The problem of strong men.

[terminally_clever]

Those who claim power must also find a way to consolidate and maintain it, or they will lose it. That's a natural and expected consequence of such a society. I don't see a problem with it at all.