Ming: COMING
THROUGH!
Important person here, life and death situation, don't make me spill
this water all over you.
Ekco: Just
put it down Ming,
you're sloshing enough of it about on your own.
Ayu: So you
really just found
her in the garden?
Aiken:
Seriously. I couldn't
cook up a story like that to smuggle a chick in here on purpose.
Ayu:
Couldn't
rather than
wouldn't, I notice.
Aiken: Errr,
did I say that?
Slip of the tongue I'm sure.
Ekco:
Quiet! She's coming around.
?: Urrrrrggghhhh. *lids
flutter* Where am I?
Ming: Pft,
how cliché.
Try some originality.
Pip: You
could try being a
little more sensitive. You'd be confused too.
Ekco: Hey
there, looks like you
took a tumble.
?: Uh?
Ekco:
What's
the last thing you
remember?
?: Um...
I.... fell.
Y.. Yes.
It was a long way down.
Ekco: Here,
sit up. You want a
drink?
?: Uh, I
think so...
Ekco: Ming,
fetch. Pip, would
you go get her some painkillers?
Pip: Sure.
Come on Ming, stop
fuming.
Ming: Hmph.
Ayu: Sorry
about her... She's
like that with just about everyone. It's the candy floss throttling her
brain.
?: Candy...
floss? What's that?
Aiken: Oh,
you must be foreign!
Everyone else learns the American version and calls it cotton candy
instead.
?: *blank
look*
Ekco:
*cough*
Want to tell us
your name?
?: Oh....
it's Eri'ta.
Ekco: Nice
to
meet you then
Eri'ta. How'd you fall over? You've got a big bump on your head.
Eri'ta: I
just... fell.
Ayu: That's
not very specific.
Eri'ta: Oh.
Well.... I was
sitting and
admiring the view and then, I don't know, I think I must have leant
over too far and suddenly I was falling... Everything was going sort
of.. woosh and then it went dark for a bit. When I opened my eyes
again, he *waves at Aiken* was leaning over me asking me if I was
alright. And then it went dark again. I don't really know what else to
say.
Aiken: *peers
at Eri'ta* Hell
of a bump for a little tumble like that.
Eri'ta:
Oh,
it wasn't little at
all. Over 200,000 miles.
Aiken:
*laughs* Where'd you
think you fell from? The moon?
Eri'ta:
Yes,
I was standing by
the Sea of Tranquility, looking down at the Earth and then... um...

All: .....

Eri'ta:
Is that.... not
right?