oo2. VIDEO

[oversear]

[ It's late at night and another video by Armand pops up. But instead of asking for animal sacrifices this time, he's got a bit of art show horror going on. Armand is pointing the camera in first person view and it settles directly on the oven that is in his kitchen. The oven light is on, but shadows are being cast by whatever is actually sitting inside. Once the camera focuses on the oven window, there appears to be a head sitting on the rack. It will quickly become obvious it is not a human head but one of the Working Joes that occupy the caves. ]

They do not melt or smoulder. It is truly impressive technology.

[ A stark white hand reaches out from behind the camera and turns up the temperature on the oven. He goes back to filming the head for several minutes, nothing but silence that is occasionally interrupted by a dull thumping sound somewhere off screen. It sounds like someone is walking into a wall.

The head does not melt. There might be a bit of a disappointed air as he terminates the feed. ]

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this is still video, I'm just out of it lmao

[oversear]

[ 'Galaxy'. That would explain this woman's appearance. Armand is not rude enough to mention it, however. ]

What is your home galaxy, mademoiselle?

haha no worries

[fulcra]

We don't... really have a specific name for it. Not one we all use, at least. What we know is divided into our galaxy and then things that aren't our galaxy. Not very creative, I know.

[oversear]

That is fair. I do not know the exact name of my galaxy, although I'm sure it has one. I never gave much thought to such things before coming here.

[fulcra]

One's sense of scope has to give out at some point, I suppose. The big picture can only get so big. [ she pauses, humming. ] I know a lot of people don't come from places with a lot of space travel, but what about you?

[oversear]

There was space travel. Man was able to make it to my planet's closest moon. It was phenomenal.

[ Guess who has a narrow understanding of the concept of space travel. This guy. ]

Your galaxy has travelled extensively?

[fulcra]

For millennia, yes. But every once in a while, we come across a planet that keeps to itself and I know what just getting to their moon would mean to them.

[ a sense of scope, again. she's mostly just trying not to sound like she's being a space snob or anything like that. ]

[oversear]

[ He falls silent and then abruptly says. ]

Please, tell me. What is the most amazing thing you've seen in these galaxies? Space endeavours never captured my imagination. I regret that now in such a damp, dirty cave.

[fulcra]

[ the question earns a moment of contemplation, then ahsoka smiles slightly, giving a shrug. ]

I don't know if there was ever any one most amazing thing. I've been to beautiful, wildly different planets and I've met so many different people and I've watched them do amazing things together. [ another pause, then a huff of laughter. ] But that sounds too poetic, so I'll go with the manta rays we ran into in a nebula one time. Not much can live in the void. They were pretty neat.

[oversear]

No please, be poetic. I find it enthralling.

[ He could become dangerously obsessed with space with talk like this. If only they could see the stars in this place. ]

Excuse my ignorance but what are manta rays?

sorry for the delay!

[fulcra]

They're big.. floppy looking creatures that usually live in oceans. [ at least as far as she understands them. she was never the best at remembering animals outside of whatever instinct told her. ] At least, most species of them do. But these guys didn't get the memo or just didn't care, so when they weren't planetside, they travelled wherever they pleased.

np!

[oversear]

And they... were in space? That is indeed strange.

It makes being in this cave almost unbearable, does it not?

[fulcra]

A little, but I've found that this is one of those things you have to choose to think about in better terms. I may not have the freedom of space, but I'm surrounded by fascinating people anyway.

[oversear]

Yes, we're all rather interesting.

[ He can't help a little smile that spreads across his face. ]

Do be careful, though. There are rogues and villains within this cave.

[fulcra]

There always are. And I do try to keep an eye on the ones I notice, for everyone's sake.

[ and her head up in general. she's seen too much of her own galaxy not to be just a little paranoid every now and then. ]