A New Friend and Other Stories of a Paladin

[lionunchained]

WHO: Shiro and You
WHERE: Around Temba
WHAT: Shiro spending some time around Temba, including Glownie
WHEN: The month of June
WARNINGS: None yet



Greenhouse
In order to help out, Shiro had started going to the greenhouse to assist where he could. He wasn't the most knowledgeable with plants, data point or not, but he could handle jobs like watering and weeding. All tasks that needed to get done in order to make sure that the plants they did have thrived so they would grow.

Also harvesting mint as he had been spending time with the Glownies, but that was not today.

Today he had set himself to weeding, humming a little bit under his breath as he did.


Starduck
The kitchen seemed to a safe enough place on the ship to just hang out. Shiro had headed in there, settling himself at a table, sipping at his cup of tea. He was lost in thought, staring at the wall for a moment as though it might do something interesting at any moment.

Of course... it wasn't.


Glownies!
Shiro had been spending time with the Glownies ever since Tommy had introduced him to them. They were rather cute and something about them was very calming to him. Spending time with them was a productive way to look after an animal and take care of them and relax at the same time. Sometimes, he'd talk to them about things and they'd listen but not necessarily really understand and couldn't repeat. Things that were just good to get off his chest... like the fact that he still was trying to process what had happened to Adam.

But it meant that no one else heard it... maybe.

One of the days though, when he was returning back, he found he had a tagalong. One of the Glownies had snuck out and decided to follow him. It was rather happily trotting along after him, tail flipping.

"What are you doing?" Shiro asked it with a smile. "Are you trying to come home with me?"

[ooc: if your character would be around the Glownie pasture, feel free to have them overhear Shiro talking to the Glownies]

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Glownies Indeed!

[stitch_witch]

Lark hadn't meet many people here yet, having arrived but a few days before the spell had started. In that time she had become familiar with a few things, and one of those had been the farm. The glownies, after all, would be something she relied on while here. Wool she could gather and turn to thread which could in turn become cloth. It was all just a matter of time.

So when she caught sight of a glownie following someone out of the farm, she had to stop and smile to the man.

"I believe you have made a friend," she offered with a warm smile, her hands folded before herself, resting lightly against the deep green of the robes she wore, edged with a band of black triangular fringe near her feet and at the edges of her long sleeves. "Perhaps I could assist in guiding it back to its place?"

Woohoo

[lionunchained]

"I believe I have," Shiro said with a smile, watching the tiny horse as it looked up at him almost expectantly since he had stopped walking. "I tell you, never expected to relive 'Mary had a little lamb', but with a Glownie."

He nodded his head at the offer. "Yeah, I'd appreciate the help. Don't really want the herd to wonder where this one went. Right?" He reached out to pet the Glownie with his normal arm. The other was essentially a disembodied, robotic arm that hovered by itself.

Re: Woohoo

[stitch_witch]

Lark of course met Shiro with a blank look at 'Mary had a little lamb.' It wasn't a nursery rhyme in her world. Sure, if the content was given to her she might offer up something similar, but it didn't have instant recognition.

At last she caught sight of his arm, though, and her hand came up and over her mouth for a moment. It was like magic, but so much more than any she had ever seen.

Truly the technology here was a wonder. Lark tried not to stare, turning her attention instead to the glownie. It was more polite that way.

"Yes, they seem a very social animal, much like sheep. It would be missed."

[lionunchained]

He honestly hadn't really been expecting her to know it since probably most people wouldn't here, but it would have been that much better if she had. The first thing that had come to mind.

He noticed the attention on his arm, but it was soon gone and back onto the Glownie. A much better place, he thought.

"Yeah, they are. Probably there are a few wondering where it went already. Why don't we head back, buddy?" he asked the Glownie reaching over to pet it again, only to be met by the Glownie trying to play now, practically bouncing between the two of them. "Yeah, this will probably take two sets of hands."

[stitch_witch]

"I didn't know they play," Lark admitted with shock. And then reached into a leather pouch at her side. She drew forth a spool of thread from it, a silk thread. She worked off part and sent her magic into it, then looked to Shiro.

"Hold it for a moment, I'll leash it."

How could a thread leash the thing? Who knew.

[lionunchained]

"I think most things do. Just never really seen the Glownies do it." He nodded his head as she reached into her pouch, beckoning the Glownie over to him. "Come here, buddy. Are you having fun out here?"

The Glownie was distracted... also didn't hurt he broke out some mint to get its attention.

He eyes the thread, but he didn't question it. He's learned by this point not to question too many things. Space and other worlds were very different than home.

[stitch_witch]

She was perhaps less different than she could be. Lark offered a smile as she looped the thread around the glownie, then the other side of the string around her wrist. Both seemed to form seamless loops.

"There, if it tries to pull away, it will have to pull me as well. So we'll keep track of it."

[lionunchained]

The Glownie, of course, wasn't sure about that, but more mint helped distract it just a little bit longer.

"Luckily, I don't think they are really that strong. So if it does decide to try and run, it probably won't get far. Thanks for your help."

He made a clicking sound, trying to coax the tiny horse to walk back in the direction of the pasture.

"I'm Shiro by the way."

[stitch_witch]

Well, the string itself wouldn't break, provided her magic was in it.

"I am Lark. It is an honor to meet you on this day, Shiro," she offered, her voice warm and level, just meant to be soothing. Here was someone used to being a comfort and support to others.

"Should I presume you often work with these beauties?"

Starduck

[puddledancer]

Quill had decided to explore the ships and see if any of them were capable of getting him back to his crew. Unfortunately, none of the controls would even respond to his touch, flashing some sort of message about a "pilot datapoint", and he gave up, wandering the rest to see if they were decent ships, at least.

He's not expecting to find someone just chilling in the galley as if it's their house, and freezes like a deer in headlights for a moment.

"Uhhhh, hi."

[lionunchained]

Shiro raised his head slightly hearing the sound of someone approaching, only looking over when someone greets him.

"Hi. Not expecting to see someone in here?"

Since he looked rather surprised.

[puddledancer]

"Oh, absolutely thought this was the fancy dinner party I just got an invitation to, actually," he said with a grin, leaning in the doorway. "Must have gotten the hangar address wrong."

[lionunchained]

Shiro chuckled at that. "Unfortunately, no fancy dinner party in here. Would be nice though. I could offer you something to drink and a peanut butter sandwich."

About the best he can make, and all that he should be trusted to make.

[puddledancer]

"I will never say no to a drink and a sandwich, I think I psychically signed a contract about that the moment I was born American. Or something." He grins. "Name's Peter Quill. How's it going?"

[lionunchained]

Shiro chuckled at that. "One drink and sandwich coming up then."

He stood up to begin putting together the offered items.

"Shiro. Nice to meet you, Peter. It's going well. How about with you?"

[puddledancer]

"It's ... effed up, honestly. First I had this really long dream that I was selling cheap comics and toys in the city, and then I woke up here. No ship, no crew, just my Zune -" he pats the MP3 player clipped to the waistband of his pants - "and this glowy ball in front of me. Touched that, got a bunch of weird images beamed straight into my brainpan like something out of a B-movie, and here I am."

He paused, mulling it all over. "But at least I'm getting a sandwich."

[lionunchained]

“Ah, then I take it you are new here. We were recently in a city that was created by one of the other residents here so it quite likely you went there first before you got here. So it is possible in that world, you were selling comics.”

He nodded his head. “Yeah, at least you are getting a sandwich. I think everyone needs one after getting here.”

Glownies!

[no_applause]

Padme was taking a walk with the twins in their carriage, enjoying some fresh air. It was nice to clear her head after... everything.

She'd stopped to soothe Luke after Leia had accidentally hit him with one flailing fist. Holding him in one arm, she was gently rocking him when she noticed the pair. She laughed, "It seems like you've made a friend."

[lionunchained]

Shiro had been distracted looking at the Glownie that was following along with him that he didn't immediately notice the others nearby, having crossed their path with as he walked backward. As she spoke, he turned to face her, seeing that she saw had two young ones who had accompanied her.

He smiled, both at her and at the children. "It seems I have. This little Glownie decided he wanted to follow me home." The tiny horse moved over to stand next to him as though curious who had his attention now. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind meeting the children there."

[no_applause]

It was a fair thing to be distracted by. She was still beaming as she nodded. "I see no harm in that."

She came from a planet with far more bizarre creatures than that, and it would be good for the children to interact with animals. They were a little too young to do much beyond stare and burble at them, but as long as the Glownies behaved, that would be fine.

[lionunchained]

Shiro nodded, gently beckoning the Glownie to walk a little closer so that it could see the children and the children could see it better. He kept his hand on the Glownie just on the off chance it did something odd. Luckily, it was small enough he could pick the Glownie up if he had to.

But it certainly seemed well-behaved, standing and looking at the children, tail flicking a bit as though it were happy.

"What are their names?"

[no_applause]

Their eyes widened when they saw the creature close up. Leia reached out one chubby little hand, her fingers making grabby motions in the air. Padme smiled, appreciating Shiro's attentiveness with the creature.

"Luke and Leia." She gestured to indicate which was which. Though how she could tell them apart was anyone's guess.

[lionunchained]

The Glownie was certainly happy seeing that it had the attention of the children, bobbing its head and making some happy noises. It didn’t move close enough for Leia to touch, but that was probably for the best, Shiro thought. Young children tended to be grabby by nature and chances are most of the domesticated animals here had not seen children so young before so grabby was not something they would be expecting.

So both for the Glownie and the children, it was better that way in the long run.

“Well, it is nice to meet both of you,” Shiro said to the children. He would certainly try to remember which was which, but he knew he’d probably fail at that. “And it’s nice to meet you as well,” he said this time to Padme. “I’m Shiro.”

[no_applause]

It was certainly better to keep the Glownie out of the way of the grabby infant. The last thing they needed was for her to grab on and the poor creature to buck or try to bite her.

Padme nodded, her smile widening. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Shiro. I'm Padme."

[lionunchained]

The Glownie was happy to keep them entertained with noise and looking cute at least even if it was too far away for babies to touch.

"Padme," he repeated, committing her name to memory. "Have you been here long?"