Terra - Ottawantreal

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A huge North American city, built in a mishmash of styles from many eras of architecture. the spaceport is bustling and filled with cruise ships, racing yachts, and transport craft. It's full of shops, clubs, gardens, and tourist attractions.

The weather is currently cool but sunny.

Helen chuckled, since that seemed to confuse the terrans. She looked around once they were outside then pulled the map out to look for an android repair place.

If there was one, it wasn't marked on the map. They might have to search online, or try to find an android to ask or something. Darned tourist maps.

Helen rolled her eyes at that and turned around to ask the guy at the counter if he knew anything about android repair shops nearby

"I really don't ma'am, I don't know much about androids, I'm just a college student," the guy said apologetically.

One of the people who was bowling looked up. "I have an android, there I know of a place where you might have some luck," he gave them the address.

Helen smiled at the kid then at the bowler and thanked them, looking tot he map for the address to see how far it was.

The shop was about a mile away, in the less touristy part of town.

"We can walk, I guess," James said. "If you don't mind."

Helen nodded then shrugged "Yeah, we can" She agreed then looked to him again and smiled, teasing him a little. "Though we could take another taxi too."

James snickered. "We need to save money for body parts. We can't afford another taxi!"

Helen chuckled and shrugged, walking out and heading for the shop with him. "Well, technically it would be Mourn paying for the parts." She countered

"Or him making Vestia pay. He's not the most charitable guy," James said with a laugh. He smiled at Helen, "have you spent much time with Mourn? He's fun, if a bit strange."

Helen chuckled then shook her head "No, not a lot." She said then shrugged. "I didn't have much reason to spend time with him."

"I guess that makes sense. You should totally hang out with him sometime, just for the experience." James matched his pace to Helen's. "Do you do sword fighting? He fights really dirty, it's fun to watch."

Helen shook her head and laughed a little "I haven't done sword fighting in a long long time. Most use guns these days. Maybe I should get back into that though."

James smiled. "But you did? Awesome. I'll totally make you and Mourn meet up sometime, it'll be great." He wanted to watch his friends beat each other up, oh yeah. "Were you any good at it?"

Helen laughed then shrugged a little "Not great but not horrible, of course I didn't have time to practice the right ways back then, so who knows, maybe I could get better at it.

James nodded. "There are a few people on board who could probably teach you. Heck, maybe even Starr knows. From what I've heard, she had quite the questionable past." He paused to look at a stand full of memorabilia with little Canadian flags on it. "You must have had some interesting adventures before, you know, " he waved his hands in a gesture intended to symbolize the destruction of the star dragon empire, although it just looked like a normal hand wave and didn't quite capture the importance of the event he was referring to.

Helen looked to him then to the flags and nodded "Before everything my sister and I were what you would call a duchess. Not that titles mean much of anything now. Back then I was still a child, so I learned childhood things, a little of one and a little of another."

"You have a sister?" James looked curious. "I can't imagine what that would be like, being royalty. Did you have to dress up, or did you just," he lowered his voice, "stay in your other form?"

Helen frowned and looked down at the sidewalk "Had, she was Shane's mother." She said softly then shook her head "We enjoyed dressing up, we were friends with the Vavare, so we could choose clothes from them to fit whatever form we wished. I remember having a pet Ounnant that we begged for clothes for, then dressed up any time there was even an imaginary event to go to." She added and chuckled at that memory. So long ago, it hurt to remember, but it was nice to have a good memory come up.

"Oh. I'm sorry. That sucks." James knew how awful it was to lose a sibling, and he wouldn't wish that on anyone. He smiled again at the story, that was cute, and now he was imagining baby star dragons in dresses. "You even had clothes in your true forms? That's awesome. What's an ounnant?"

Helen chuckled and nodded then looked to him before looking away again. "I would have to try to draw one or something. It's basic form is bat-like, though is is also similar to a cat and an insect. It is not easy to describe them, I will have to show you when we get back." She would shift into one to show him, when they were safely back.

James smiled. "That sounds either adorable, or absolutely terrifying. I'm looking forward to you showing me." He walked slower to look at some shop windows, before speeding up again. "I still wanna know how you wear clothes in your true form. It's hard to picture."

Helen laughed softly at that then shrugged "Something else I would have to show you, though I would have to have some made to show that."

(I put the picture on her profile I finally made)

"We could ask Armin. He's a great tailor," James said. He looked thoughtful, "I haven't seen him as much as usual lately, come to think of it. Hope he's okay."

Helen nodded then smiled "It would be wonderful to wear Vavare fabric again." She said then frowned a little "I hope he isn't getting sick or anything."

"That vavare fabric is great stuff, isn't it?" James said. He frowned, "Yeah, if he got sick, I'm not sure how you'd treat him. Vavare biology is weird."