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Not Quite the Last Train

WHO: Shiro and Open
WHERE: Sh'ka
WHAT: Exploring
WHEN: October 15th on
WARNINGS: None so far.

Arrival
Somehow, luck was finally on Shiro's side. He'd always claim that if he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all. Okay, sure, it wasn't really so bleak as that, but he could be over dramatic sometimes.

He had decided to take the train out of Temba and to Sh'ka. His intention was that he was only going to stay for one day, but that plan quickly got waylaid when the train arrived from Temba and it would not return. Further more, some of those who had escaped had reported a strange darkness that had come over Temba suddenly.

After attempting a few more times in vain to try and get the train moving since it sounded like something was happening in Temba, Shiro was forced to give up, stalking away.

Security Center
Since he now had a forced vacation in Sh'ka, Shiro decided to do some exploring. He headed into the security center to see what was there, struck by the oddly relaxing nature of the facility. Strange he thought. A building such as that wasn't normally relaxing in any sort of way.

He happened upon the video that was playing, watching it for maybe five minutes before he got bored and went exploring again. When he cam back a few hours later, he looked back at the screen and raised an eyebrow.

"Is the video repeating?" He could have sworn he had just seen that part...

Theater
Shiro went to the theater when he saw that it seemed to active like the security center had been. He had no previously interacted with the Graq and since he didn't have the communication data point, the words meant nothing to him at all, but would stand in the back watch the figures that danced around on stage, trying to figure out from what they were doing and what was actually going on in some cases.

Around
Shiro could often be found around Sh'ka, exploring whatever he could so there was not much option to go anywhere else. At least once a day, he could be found at the train, trying to see if he could get it to go back.

What was the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?

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"Theme park?" It wasn't a term she was familiar with by the way she tilted her head. She'd never been to a functioning museum outside of the abandoned, empty one here to really properly agree with Shiro's observations, but at least that was something she was marginally familiar with.

"I don't know, but I doubt we'll figure out anything by watching it. Maybe it's just broken," Omega suggested with a shrug. "There must be other things around here in the city that have turned on now that the power's up."

"It's a place where people go for fun. There's usually rides, shows, various entertainments. There's usually an overall theme or multiple themes inside the same park. Some of them have promotional movies."

He shrugged. "That's a possibility. It could be broken. Showing something happened the day it broke over and over again."

Definitely something new. Omega was still a little new to the concept of having fun, not that she'd had many her age to play with. An entire place for it sounded amazing. "I wonder if there's any sort of places like that back where I'm from. My brothers could use an excuse to try and have some fun, I think."

A wistful sort of look crossed her face as she thought about them. Well, she'd just have to keep doing her best until she got to see them again.

"I guess that could be it," she said with a nod. "Looks like pretty normal things going on."

"Maybe there is. Or maybe it is something that we can try to create here if we get the right supplies. I know it wouldn't really help your brothers unless they are here too, but it could be fun."

He got the opinion from the look on her face that they probably weren't here, but still, the possibility of something that she might be able to enjoy with them and show them.

He nodded. "Nothing strange, at least so far as I've seen."

The girl brightened a little at the suggestion. "Maybe we could try. I don't think it'd hurt to give everyone a chance to have some fun around here." It did give her something to look forward to trying at some point. "I bet if you suggested it there'd be other people who would agree."

Her attention shifted to the mothcat who had that look in his eye, and she anticipated the jump from her shoulder. At least Tony was getting used to flitting about while tethered to her, and there was enough slack on the leash that he could be at Shiro's eye-level, sniffing at him curiously before pawing lightly at his hair.

Shiro smiled, glad to see her brightening just a bit more at his suggestion. “It doesn’t hurt to try. It might take a bit to find the right materials and some creativity, but I’m sure that we would be able to do it. And everyone contributes ideas it will certainly be more interesting but will likely get more acceptance than others just deciding for them.”

Shiro raised an eyebrow at the mothcat as it began to move around on her shoulder, watching with interest as it suddenly took flight. Clearly it took interest in him as well as it came over to him and began to bat at his hair. He laughed lightly, not minding the attention at all. “Hello there, Tony.”

"I like that idea." It sounded like a good way to get everyone together as well.

Omega laughed as the mothcat drifted over Shiro's shoulder to perch on the opposite one. Tony proved to be quite light, hardly seeming to weigh a thing. He looked quite proud of himself where he was, lifting a paw to lick now that he had a new perch to settle on.

It was certainly a good option, Shiro thought to bring people closer together. Even if there wasn’t something like an amusement park in their world, it would still give the option for people to present their ideas for what might be amusing to do when they weren’t working. Sure, it might have been a bit of distraction, but working all the time was impractical. He knew that was the pot calling the kettle black since he was likely to just keep working unless someone told him otherwise.

Shiro glanced over the mothcat as it landed on his shoulder. It was surprisingly light, not even really feeling it sitting there. To be fair, he hadn’t had much interaction with mothcats before so he hadn’t had anything to base that off of other than what he figured mentally for their size.

“Seems like I’ve made a new friend,” Shiro said with a smile.

"Looks like!" Omega smiled back. "Maybe even two."

Shiro reached over to pet Tony the mothcat if he would allow him. If he started to shy away, he would move his hand back, not about to make the animal comfortable. At her comment, he looked back at her and nodded, still smiling. “And I think you two have made a friend as well.”

The mothcat stooped down a little as he eyed the hand for a moment before recognizing the gesture. He promptly shoved his head up against Shiro's fingers before batting at them in short order.

Omega looked pleased then, nodding happily. Making new friends was glad to be able to do around here.

Shiro waited until the mothcat had fully accepted the gesture of being pet, smiling gently as it headbutt his hand, able to give Tony a bit of a pet before he started trying to play with his hand. That was fine. He didn’t mind that. Quite the playful thing.

“Shall we take a look around? See if we can find anything else interesting here?”

Omega nodded eagerly at that. "Anywhere's probably more interesting than looking at these videos, I think," she said. "Where to?"

She'd take Tony off Shiro's hands if he was getting too bothersome, but in the meantime since it didn't seem like he minded, she was inclined to let the mothcat continue his play.

“More exciting. Probably also most likely to discover information about this place than watching the videos.” Especially if they just seemed to be playing over and over again and were mostly landscapes for people to look at. It was very strange in his opinion to have that in a security center, but perhaps if they looked, maybe they could figure out why.

“I started looking in that direction,” Shiro said, indicating which way as they started to move towards the door. “So we can start by looking the other way to see if there is anything of interest.”

For the moment, he was fine with Tony sitting there. His antics were cute so Shiro wasn’t going to worry too much about it. As long as Tony seemed content to sit there and was only trying to play with him, he had no issues.

"Sounds good to me," Omega nodded. She started after Shiro, keeping close enough so she wouldn't accidentally be tugging Tony off by the leash if she lagged behind.

Tony rather liked his tall perch, quick to watch his balance as the man set off.

At least Shiro didn’t set off at a quick pace. He had seen that she had the mothcat on a leash and the creature was currently balancing on his shoulder so he didn’t want to throw either of time off too much. That would have been mean. So even though he was tall, it wouldn’t be hard for her to keep up with him and hopefully not too hard for Tony to keep his balance on an unfamiliar perch.

“Have you had the chance to investigate any other places here?”

"Well, the first time I came out here, I went with Jon and Tony to check out the museum," Omega explained. "I think now that the power's on, other things have been activated. Have you been by the estate? It looked busy." Busy was a definite improvement from the stillness of before.

“It certainly seems like there is more happening now that the power is working. Originally not as much seemed to be happening out here.” He smiled after a moment. “This Tony or the other Tony?” Meaning the mothcat on his shoulder as he reached up to give him a pet.

He shook his head at her question. “I don’t believe that I have. Have you been there?”

That got a laugh from her. "Both, actually," she admitted. "It's this one's fault I ended up on the train though." Chasing after mischievous mothcats is dangerous, but she didn't want to think about what would have happened if no one had been able to catch up with this Tony before the train had swept him off to unknown territory.

"I went by the outside of it. There's so many droids around and inside of it now! They were trimming the bushes and things."

Shiro chuckled slightly at that, glancing at the mothcat on his shoulder again and wiggling his fingers at Tony. “I see. So it was more of a happy accident and Tony led you to Tony. Good that you were able to catch him though. Seems rather mischievous sometimes, huh?”

Also explained why he was probably on a leash now. Harder for him to run away from her when she was holding onto him.

“Really? Can’t believe I didn’t notice that. I guess I will have to go take a look at some point soon.”

The winged kitten crouched a little, batting playfully at Shiro's hand. "Pretty much," Omega said, giving Tony a knowing look. "The other Tony's the one who made this." She held up her end of the leash. "I guess he knows if he wants to come out to this city then he has to put up with it. Once we can get back to Temba he won't have to wear it." She did look a little concerned about that point. The train hadn't moved and her tablet wasn't connecting. What could be going on?

"Well, the city's still big. I guess you'd have to go by there to really notice- it's kind of out of the way," she said, focusing on their present situation. At least there were things to do here to keep her mind off things, not that it stopped her from worrying.

Shiro chuckled a bit as the mothcat batted at his hand, at least willing to keep the little thing amused for the moment. Meant that he would be less likely to attempt to go explore on his own. Not that he seemed like he wanted to, but might as well try. “Nice of him to make it for you. Probably eases your mind quite a bit to know that.” He could see the concern on her face when she mentioned Temba and he smiled reassuringly. “We will get back. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.”

He was worried about that too. What could possibly be happening there?

“That is true. I don’t think I’ve really scratched the surface of exploring here. I think it could take quite a while to see everything. So the mansion is definitely a place that I should look at to go.”

Omega hadn't meant it to be so obvious, but Shiro's words are appreciated regardless as the girl gave him a hopeful look. "Yeah," she said, nodding.

"If the city's similar to Temba then there's definitely a lot to see," she agreed.

It was fine really. He was used to being the “dad” figure so to speak, someone to provide reassurance if there was a reason for someone to need it. He had done the same with pretty much everyone on the Castle of Lions at some point. So he didn’t even think about it really.

But he also didn’t want either of them to focus that so he decided to keep talking about the city they were in now rather than the issue with Temba.

“Seems like it is. It just still seems a lot wilder. Probably because we haven’t really been looking around here for very long. Have you looked at the theater yet?”

Omega nodded thoughtfully at that. "Maybe it's been abandoned even longer," she suggested, but then she hadn't been here at the start of whenever people had begun to show up in Temba, so she wasn't sure how bad it had been even then. She blinked at Shiro's question, shaking her head.

"I haven't," she admitted. "Have you?"

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