Warm Fuzzies

[small_compromise]

WHO: Omega and you?
WHERE: Temba and Sh'Ka
WHAT: Making sure the locals are warm
WHEN: Through the month
WARNINGS: N/A


This time around Omega was much better prepared for what to expect once the season shifted. She had more than enough free time and had started spending some of it in going through the available department stores for materials, clothes she could use. The nice Hunter had given her a knife so she could cut things up properly, and she'd managed to do so without slicing off any fingers and only giving Echo a mild heart attack.

Her sewing skills were rudimentary at best, but she remembered what she'd been taught during the rain fair that had seemed so long ago now. All she really needed to do was make sure one piece of material attached and stayed attached to another.

Depending on when one came across her, she could be found leaving little makeshift scarves and bundles of blankets by spots she'd seen Funfronds and Barrys frequent, in Temba or Sh'Ka proper. There's also the library where she might get sidetracked in her warmth dispersing and end up buried in mothcats. Or she could be found either carrying a very large bundle of cloth in her arms or in the process of winding what turned out to be a very lengthy, patched together scarf out around a snow-dusted outcropping of rocks that had settled near the spiraling depression of the Temba memorial site. Weird girl.

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The girl tilted her head thoughtfully as she leaned against the rock mound. "Well...this is all just the rocks on his back," she said. A sizable outcropping as tall as Lauri-El. She pointed down at the snow-covered ground.

"The rest of him is probably buried in the dirt. His head alone is like... this big!" she gestured, holding out her arms at either side of her.

[kree_soldieress]

Was it all? How strange.

“I had not heard of this thing. I feel that I am under prepared for nature here.”

But yes, that was rather big.

[small_compromise]

For something so large he hadn't been very obvious. His camouflage for one was excellent, and he hardly moved once he had settled. Omega had been the one to discover that vibrations seemed to draw his attention the best. And then there was the whole thing about making accidental sinkholes that had claimed one of the buildings earlier in the year as well as most of a tree just outside of the city.

Omega carefully climbed down a ways so she could tug at the makeshift scarf there. "It's a big world out there and we've only seen so much of it. Who knows what else lives around here?"

[kree_soldieress]

“This is a very good point,” she agreed, moving up to put a hand on the young woman’s hips to stabilize her. “And you befriended him? This is good. There are not many creatures here who seem friendly. The moth cats, the glownies, that seems to be it.”

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"Kind of? He might look scary at first, but he's very gentle. It reminds me of Muchi, although I guess she's only gentle depending on the situation." Of course Muchi was a Rancor, albeit a young one.

"I think that should do it. Can you get the other end?" Omega asked as she pointed over to where it had landed from her earlier tossing.

[kree_soldieress]

“I shall be glad to do so.”

Once the girl seems stable, Lauri-Ell crosses to the far side, grabs up the other end, and begins to hang it around.

“Tell me of Muchi?”

[small_compromise]

"Muchi's a young rancor. At least Tech said she was an adolescent. She's a little shorter than you but about twice your width, with big long arms and claws. We had to rescue her from slave traders," Omega explained as she looked for her next foothold, using the toe of her boot to knock some of the snow off of the rocks.

"And then Wrecker had to challenge her so she'd listen to us and we could bring her back. I only saw the end of it, but it must have been quite a match!"

[kree_soldieress]

A little shorter than Lauri and twice the width? What a great beast that was indeed.

“No beast should unwillingly know the companionship and control of others. I am glad you rescued her. You are a good young woman.”

As she says this she continues to wrap the rocks she is working on.

“The beast was of a kind that gave respect only to those proven its better in combat? Yes, I can respect this.”

[small_compromise]

"It was our first job from Cid. She hadn't told us that we were looking for a rancor though. We saved some other people who were there too, so I think it's a good thing we went."

Omega carefully navigated the uneven rocks until she could step down onto the frosty ground.

"Something like that. Tech said it's what the rancors do in the wild, where one would challenge another alpha for authority."

[kree_soldieress]

"I hope you were all good to him," she said with a smile as she finished tying things up where they needed to be. It looked warm and settled here.

"You are a very large friend."

[small_compromise]

"Muchi? She was very friendly once Wrecker won. Actually I think they both got tired out from their fight, so maybe that helped a little," Omega laughed. "She let me ride on top of her on the way back to Cid's. Someone was already waiting to take her back home too, so everything worked out all right."

She gave the festively decorated rocks a pat and then beamed up at Lauri-Ell. "Thank you for helping," she said as she rubbed her hands together to warm them up some.

[kree_soldieress]

"That sounds lovely. And I was glad to help."

She smiles and moves to the girl with her hands cupped together.

"Kree have higher body temperatures than the average human. I could help."

[small_compromise]

Omega blinked before she held her hands out then. "I was wondering why you didn't look cold," she observed with a grin. "I think we're done here. Want to see if there's anything warm at the diner to drink?"

[kree_soldieress]

Oh that makes her face light up.

"That sounds nice. It would be soothing."

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The girl moved her hands to gently take hold of one of Lauri-Ell's to tug along, smiling. "Then let's go!"

[kree_soldieress]

Ah, that is nice. Once more Lauri is reminded just how nice Omega is, as she follows with a smile. A wide one.

“Gladly. Are warm drinks traditional in human cultures when it is cold?”

[small_compromise]

"Oh, I don't know. I've never been anywhere cold before here," Omega said simply as she moved along through the snow.

[kree_soldieress]

"Me either," Lauri admitted. "The worlds I was stationed on, they were climate controlled."

So this place was the only cold she had known.

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"They can do that with whole worlds?" the girl marveled. "The world I was created on is covered in an ocean and half of the time it's stormy, so there wasn't much by way of climate, not that I ever went outside of the city."

[kree_soldieress]

"Yes," she says, shocked that the girl would ask. She is of a spacefaring people. Have they not done such things?

"I do not know oceans well. Perhaps they resist that sort of care that we use with our residential and garden worlds," Lauri-Ell suggests.

[small_compromise]

Omega had only been to a handful of other worlds since leaving Kamino, and they'd all seemed relatively natural when it came to climate, not that it was something she'd given much thought to, but nor did they stay for very long in most of them. Surely Tech would give her a thorough explanation if it was such a thing wherever they did end up going.

"I guess... There's not really much to be done about them." Gardens and worlds with cities and towns, individual houses, they were all relatively new to her too, after all.

At least they'd be warm soon as the diner came into view. Omega looked forward to whatever might be had for tummy-warming treats.

[kree_soldieress]

"Seas are complicated," Lauri-Ell says as if she's been educated in it. "And it takes many, many decades for our people to get proper weather satellites and controls set up on our worlds."

She sees the diner and smiles. Yes, warmth will be good.

"I hope Thomas has made stew. I think it is a very good human food."