[ trade 01 ] / [ Voice / English ]

[gotyourwallet]

[The comm comes to life with a loud crack. The device just got dropped accidentally. Vie’s muttered voice is heard.]

This is great. I’ve no idea where in Kellos I am and now I’m breaking items that I can’t even start to decipher.

[The comm is picked up and she turns it in her hands. Vie’s voice is louder with the device closer to her face.]

He could have warned me at least before--

[Whatever strength was in her tone dies out and she falls quiet. A second later, sobbing is heard. It takes her a moment to get back under control.]

Dammit. [Muttered] He's gone Vierren. Hold it together.

[The girl is unaware the comm is on, or really what it is.]

Comments

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

[Twelve. Nine. She's marking her room number as well.]

Ele...vatorr? What's that, exactly?

[This ship is weird.]

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

Fer real? Dang. I ferget sometimes that people's worlds are real diff'rent from mine.

Okay, uh... it'll look like a big metal door with a button next to it. You press th'button an' th'door'll open in a short while. Lemme know when y'get that far?

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[Picking her way through the luggage and searching for a big door. Ah-hah! There is is.]

Found it. Pressing the button now. What's next?

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

Arright, when th'door opens, it'll be, like... a little room inside? An' y'go in there an' press th'button that says '9.' An' th'doors'll close.

[Geez, this is really strange, describing something as everyday as an elevator to someone. The strangeness he finds in this is obvious in his voice.]

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

[Warning bells are ringing but Sal has been nothing but helpful until now.

The doors will close, and then?

[The strangeness in his voice is heard, and matched with her own tone of cautiousness. Sorry Sal, she's not going in there until you tell her the next part.]

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

An' then they'll open up an' y'll be on deck 9. S'like a li'l room that moves up an' down from floor t'floor.

Does that even make sense?

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

[Ding! The doors open.]

Oddly enough, yes.

[Button pushed. Doors closing.]

Okay, I'm in. This is rather bizarre. I'm imagining explaining this to me is about as strange for you as describing what I was to you?

[Her tone is definitely lighter. Still cautious, but she can see the humor of it.]

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Elevators're pretty much common knowledge where I'm from. So 'splainin' what it does t'someone's kinda weird.

Is it goin' arright fer ya? I guess I'd be a li'l freaked if it was m'first time on a... thing I don' know 'bout.

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

On another day, I might have thought you were joking when you asked what a Valei was. And until you said the elevator was a box that takes us between floors, there was no way I was going inside.

[Light tap as she wraps a knuckle on the wall of the lift.]

It's sturdy at lea--

[Ding! Doors opening.] That was fast.

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

Grade A engineerin's my guess. Whole boat's pretty sturdy.

An' only piece of advice I got is from now on? Don' 'sume no one's jokin' 'bout nothin'.

Think y'can find Sergei's arright? I got a good friend works there. If ya see a dude with green hair, tha's Herz. He's super nice. But someone's bound t'be there, set ya up nice.

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think I'll manage. Thanks again, Sal.

Oh, one last question. How do I stop this box... thing from doing whatever it's doing to let us talk?

[conquistasal.livejournal.com]

Ah, push th'button on th'side. That should do it fer ya.

[gotyourwallet.livejournal.com]

Until next time.

[She clicks off the comm and pauses. Expression falters before picking up again. Crying never got anyone anywhere. Vie continues on her way. Yay!]