fandomhigh | BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge [Saturday morning]

It had been with several bone-crushing hugs, a lucky rabbit's foot, two trashy books and an iPod that Olive had boarded the plane. If she had to guess, geographically, she had started to really miss her parents and brothers somewhere over Texas. (Texas was huge. She was probably right.) She'd pushed that away and shoved in her earbuds in an attempt to sleep, to no avail.

And...now she was supposed to meet new classmates. Okay. She found the designated loungey area thing -- and holy crap, that glittery sign was like something Marianne would make (so...not a great omen) -- and took a seat. Tempted as she was to retreat into her book and iPod again, she instead only fiddled idly with her phone, looking up every couple minutes to see if anyone relatively her age had come over. She hated being the first one anywhere. Now there was like, this onus on her.

She had maybe just won her Words With Friends game with her mom, as soon as the plane had landed, with "onus." She was pretty proud of that.

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Well, at least someone who looked different. All of these humans were starting to make Cade's skin crawl. "What planet are you from, pateesa?" he asked.

"Pateesa?" Yeul asked curiously. "I'm afraid I'm not aware of what that means. I'm from the planet Gran Pulse, however. Have you heard of it? Which planet are you from?"

"Is that in the Mid-Rim?" Cade asked. "Don't spend much time in there. And pateesa is just slang for girl."

Well, "sweetie."

"It might be," she said thoughtfully. "I couldn't say for sure where my planet is located. We don't have much to do with space at home."

She added, "I'm Yeul."

In case he felt like calling her something other than 'girl'. Though Yeul didn't mind that either. She was one, after all. It seemed silly to mind something like that.

"Cade," he replied. "You don't have much to do with space? How do you get all of your stuff?"

That he may or may not steal while it was flying to your planet. Cough.

He could try, but...

"Everything we require is produced on our planet," she said, with some surprise. "Is that not how your planet is?"

"Not for about ten thousand years," Cade said. "I mean, some backrocket planets still farm dirt or whatever--" Cade was quite an expert on farming, clearly, "but we're pretty interconnected."

"How do you work around your fal'Cie?" she asked, knowing that at home, that would never happen without their consent. "Or... do you not have any?"

Perhaps the fal'Cie on his world kept their attention on other things, rather than the people who lived there.

Cade looked completely confused, which probably answered the question. "Are they immigration agents or something?"

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It was her turn to look confused. "Immigration agents?"

Pulse and Cocoon didn't really have immigration.

She shook her head. "They're... living gods, I suppose. They maintain the planet."

And destroy it. In about equal measures.

"Oh, like the Yuuzhan Vong," Cade said bitterly. "They made a karking mess of the place."

"I'm sorry," Yeul said. "I did not mean to bring up an unpleasant thing."

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Cade waved her apology aside. "Life's full of unpleasant things. If you don't learn that early, you're gonna be disappointed a lot."

"I know." Did she ever know. "But disappointments should be tempered with the better things. Don't you think so?"

Cade snorted. "If I ever see a better thing, I'll let you know."

"You don't find anything to be better?" she asked carefully. "Not even a simple sunset, perhaps?"

She'd always found those lovely.

It was like talking to one of the Jedi Masters again. Ugh.

Cade shook his head. "I'm a little busy to be contemplating the vastness of the whatever."

[OOC: NIGHT!]

"That busy? And now you're a student?" Yeul considered that. "I hope we are not all going to be kept that busy. I had not thought school would be that much work."

[OOC: Night!]

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