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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-04-10 06:25 am

The Endless River

On the morning of day twenty one of the month of Kazoo there is a message on the ICP screens around the train. Their SCA's will light up the colour of the Void and show the following information.

World #398050 is a void nexus known locally as Tshering. As a void nexus this world has strong links with the void and the connection through worlds. World #398050 is home to the Endless River. Legends speak of this river being powerful enough to send thoughts from one heart to another across any distance. All that is needed is for you to know who it is you wish to reach.


On-board

The dressing carriage is open, filled with clothing best suited to a pleasant spring day. Light, airy and in a rainbow of joyful colours and florals. One closet is entirely filled with wide-brimmed hats bedecked with ribbons, feathers and ornaments. A stack of picnic baskets and containers filled with an alarming variety of passenger-suitable foodstuffs and flasked drinks sits in one corner, next to rolls of thick, weatherproof blankets in the four team colours.

The large box marked Do Not Use Yet, filled with small, empty jute bags, is hopefully still sat in the Luggage carriage, ready for passengers to grab handfuls of its contents as directed by the announcement.

Upon landing (after an appropriate countdown), the train remains on the surface, its carriages partially curved to form a gathering site for the day. Welcome to Tshering, the eighth void nexus!



A Day for Picnics

Tshering, system #398050, is a strange place, only habitable by grace of the passengers' SCAs. The sky is shot through with colours, a cascade of sunsets, and through it, the void shimmering through it in seams like a child's painting of the milky way. Still, there's a beauty to the chaotic mash of colours that soaks through its landscape, and in the shelter of the forests of towering funghi that dot its surface, the Void can go unseen by its visitors.

The temperature seems mild, suitable for the provided clothing, and if there are weather patterns around the world they've taken the day off. The funghi are sturdy enough that what air flow there is doesn't disturb their stalks, and carved grooves and holds in some of the larger examples indicate that climbing them to sit atop their glowing crowns is eminently possible, and, in fact, encouraged.

the Endless River

The Endless River is a font of pure chaos, flowing from a multitude of small rivulets across the area to a central reservoir, from which it pours directly upwards, away from Tshering's surface and out of sight, beyond the world's atmosphere.

Anything bagged and placed within the Endless River will also flow upwards and soon be out of sight, passing, presumably, into the Void. Scattered across the surface of Tshering are small, glittering pebbles, as described in the announcement.

The stones are pleasantly cool to the touch, and all passengers need to do is feel. Messages can be in any form that the Voidtreckers wish. Perhaps words, perhaps feelings, perhaps an image from their mind into the stone. Perhaps a mixture. Once they begin their message the stone will glow slightly and continue to glow as they secure it in the bag and cast it into the river. They will feel, almost instinctively, that they need to focus as they do so, thinking of the person they wish to reach all the while.

There are plenty of bags and many more stones; passengers will not be limited in their sendings.
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[personal profile] yondu 2021-04-12 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
He does have a moment where he looks around guiltily, knowing that this is partially his fault. But he makes no effort to stop her from crying, feeling tears soak through to his skin.

"'Salright." He tries to comfort, rubbing her back. But other than a few muttered consolations he doesn't interrupt. The funny thing is the last time something like this happened it had been drunken crew sobbing over some loss or another. He'd redirected it like he was deflecting a missile, aiming the man at Kraglin and leaving to take care of some business or another.

Now he stands there and takes it like the man he needs to be. Whether it's for her or him.
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[personal profile] wishalone 2021-04-12 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
By the time the tears finally stop... Kyoko feels hollow. Raw. She has a headache that she feels in her teeth. Her eyes hurt. Her face is snotty and wet and gross. And... she got all that over his nice clothes, too.

She doesn't know what to do. What to say. This wasn't what she meant to happen. (But isn't that just the story of her life?)

... his shirt... is pink. Stupidly, she finds herself fixating on that, while she can't bring herself to move. If she moves, they have to acknowledge what just happened. She doesn't want it. But she can't just sit here, either.

She lifts her head, first, wiping her face messily with the backs of her arms. (Why didn't she pick something with sleeves?) And then reaches deep down and finds a laugh. It comes out sounding stupid, but whatever.

"You look like an Easter egg in that shirt."

Look, it's the best icebreaker she could think of.
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[personal profile] yondu 2021-04-12 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what an Easter is so don't count on me to hatch notime soon."

He takes it, because the humor might help her. He looks at the wet spot on his shirt and reckons he can take care of that later. Wouldn't be too much trouble.

"Think you cried out a pint. Maybe before you make no more decisions here you go get some water to drink that ain't gonna kill ya." He thumbs to the river.
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[personal profile] wishalone 2021-04-12 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm." It's a good point. And it buys her some time, too. To try to figure out what she really wants to do.

Kyoko opens the top of her picnic basket and rifles around. He said water, but really, she's hoping for juice. When her hand finds a plastic bottle of barley tea, though... She pulls it out, instead of pushing it aside. This isn't going to be anything like what Mami can make, but vending machine teas have been a guilty pleasure ever since she broke off their partnership. Maybe it won't be as guilty this time.

While she's at it... She pulls out a bag of hard candy, melon flavored. She opens it with her teeth, grabs a handful of the wrapped candies, and holds them out to Yondu. A wordless apology... and thank you.
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[personal profile] yondu 2021-04-12 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
He takes the candy, putting the wrapper in his pocket. "Thank ya."

Then he reaches down and picks up one of the rocks again, holds it in his hands, and focuses hard.

You sold me knowin' exactly what I was in for. When I found about Ego? I kept Peter, money be damned. I wasn't much of a good daddy, but I was better than you by light years. An' I know without my crew breathin' down my neck I woulda really put even that to shame.

He reaches down and picks up a little bag to put his stone in, looking determined as he flings it into the river. Dusting off his hands, he looks like he's feeling a little bit better himself. It wasn't loving, but it was something he'd never had the chance to say.