#iris watson 01

Kay loves shopping in this city. There’s so much cool stuff she could never get back home! She’s looking up at the shelves, (which seem way too tall, in her opinion), when she spots another kid in the same aisle.

Woah, she’s never seen a human with hair like that! Especially not one around the same age as her. She ventures closer, standing to look at the same shelf as the human girl.

“I like your hair, it’s a pretty color!”

          -- A lot of water?

          At least the atmosphere is steady. They could have dropped her friends off in different sections; despite a lot of yelling and asking, Fibonacci had none of them and that only steels her resolve to look elsewhere. She highly doubts this is Astra, or any old variation of the Earth, and the government would have made it known if they were terraforming another planet. ... Right?

          No. Considering everything they lied about and suppressed, apparently not. Most people she meets claim to have been brought here against their will -- but can’t seem to understand how. 

          The tide is low for the time being; given the state of the ward, and her previous experience in Arispade, Aries knows it’ll rise -- she’ll have to make this as short as possible, but how? The sections of this place are so big, and it’s not the same when she doesn’t have the ship at hand!

          “Oh -- !” A flash of pink hair -- a child retreating into a tall building, and something prompts her to follow. If she’s hiding out in there, it could be occupied with one or more of the others! Her entrance, however, is a little disappointing; Aries enters into a near-deserted ground floor lobby, with only the stairs and an elevator to signify that there is a lot more to search and almost no good initiative to do so. She pales. 

          “Is there... nobody else in here?”