Upon Vestia: Chapter Thirty

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Skye nodded and smiled a little "It's a little scary though, when you only see your own kind then see a city with the others."

Dawn smiled again and nodded, looking back to Matt and Ellie on the stage. "Yeah, the way some come to the med bay after getting drunk is not good. We should probably give them two painkillers before they go to bed tonight so they can take it in the morning."

James nodded. "Maybe so. We'll see how drunk they get, who knows, maybe they'll stop at one beer this time. For once." He laughed, he kind of doubted that.

Dawn chuckled and shook her head a little "I doubt that. I think they've already had more than one anyway."

Matt grinned "Yeah, I learned a lot." Okay some of it was not good or fun, but he liked to ignore those bits.

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Mourn grinned. "I go back to work now." He declared. "Bye bye other robot."

"You're probably right. I haven't really been keeping track, but past patterns suggest they've probably gone through a couple already," James agreed. He smiled. "We can approach them real casual-like at some point with offers of painkillers in exchange for their friendship."

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"Good for you, man. I've learned, like, nothing. Well, before Vestia, anyway," Ellie said with a grin. She slapped Matt's shoulder companionably. "Since I joined Vestia, I've learned, like, three things!"

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"Bye," Ethan told Mourn. He smiled a little, the guy was so dedicated to his work.

Matt laughed. "Hey you know all about like... fungus extraction or whatever." He forgot what Ellie's parent's farm did okay?

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Mourn waved and headed off to return to his code. He preferred coding to parties, and he was pretty obsessed with beating this terran united problem.

Dawn chuckled and nodded, smiling at James again "Yeah, we could do that, though we would have to do it without Kay finding out. He likes to give them that look when they come in for hurting themselves so much."

"Oh yeah, I'm a PRO with algae stuff," Ellie agreed. "Of course, we're too fancy here on Vestia to eat algae cakes and stuff, but hey, life skills!" she snickered.

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"Kay's a cruel dictator," James joked. He actually kind of liked Kay, even if the guy was intimidating sometimes. "Maybe we shouldn't deprive him of that chance to scold them for drinking."

Dawn chuckled and shrugged "Not that his scolding does much of anything to stop them."

"True, but it seems to make Kay happy," James said. He shook his head, amused.

"You totally have some awesome skills." Matt decided. "We just haven't had a chance to discover them all yet."

"Oh, I know I do, baby," Ellie said brightly. She grinned at Matt. "Between the two of us, we're like, the most talented people on the ship. You got the water powers and the music, I got the plant powers and the hats. Oh! And Shane has the power of eternal hotness and making amusement parks."

Matt laughed "you also have the glitter, and a great capacity for booze. Oh! and fort making!" Hey, he remembered that time they got drunk and built a fort.

"Oh man! I forgot the fort making!" Ellie laughed. "So many talents, right? I'm surprised people don't spend more time flattering us."

Dawn chuckled and nodded. Kay did like his sour looks at people.

Shane looked over to Matt and Ellie, smiling as he listened to their conversation. Those two could go on about just about anything.

James sighed, settling into a more comfortable-looking pose in his chair."Regardless, I'm sure it's gonna be entertaining."

Dawn nodded and looked over to the others again. "That it should be." She agreed softly.

"i'll drink to that!" Matt held up his bottle and took a long swig. He glanced over at Shane. "What about you? any hidden talents we don't know about yet?"

Shane chuckled and shrugged a little "I don't know, I think you know all of mine that I'm aware of."

Ellie drank too. "He's totally hiding some cool trick up his sleeve for a rainy day, I just know it." She went over to Shane and kissed him briefly on the cheek. "Talented cutie."

Shane flushed a little at that then shrugged. "Thanks, but I never learned to play an instrument or anything like that."

Ellie shrugged. "We're not just looking for musical talent. At this point, any talent is good as far as we're concerned."

"Yeah man, for all we know you can like, do circus tricks or are some master contortionist or something." Matt grinned at the idea. "oo what about sports? "

"Oh, I bet Shane would be an incredible sports player! Like, Dalmatian-ball, or running-ball!" Ellie grinned. "Just imagine the possibilities."

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Ethan decided to look for Esk. Just to see if he was still scratching like Mourn had said, you know.

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James sat next to Dawn, watching the drinking buddy trio for a while. "So have you seen the new med bay since you came back?" he asked her.

Esk had found somewhere quiet to eat and attempt, emphasis on attempt, to read a psychology text book. He had a dictionary too, which he was using to periodically look up a complicated word he didn't recognise.

Ethan found Esk, and looked at him curiously, seeing the startlingly large books he had. Huh, he hadn't figured Esk to be much of a reader. At all.
He hesitated, it felt kind of wrong to interrupt someone when they were pretty clearly studying, but at the same time, he was so curious about this. "Hey," he said awkwardly.

Dawn shook her head and looked to James again "No, I was just putting my things away then came here." She replied. Now she wanted to see it though.

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Shane chuckled then shrugged "I've never had a chance to play sports like that. I don't know how I would be at it."