Zoe 'verse 3. The Rock. New resources.

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Dalla looks around the busy factory room, her expression showing her satisfaction as the human workers busily grind rock and mix gum and have the occasional argument with their protective gear.

"This makes me very happy," she says to the mech who is there in the interests of taste testing.

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"Yes," Blitzwing says, a smile on his own face, "I'm glad we could find something you could help us with."

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"The meat plant is nearly ready to start, too. We've made the changes that Zoe suggested in sanitation and space." Dalla pauses to pick up an energon dumpling in her hand and then offers it to Blitzwing.

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Blitzwing really had no idea about the meat plant, but he'd let Zoe know once he got home. Instead, he took the dumpling Dalla offered and tasted it. "Not too bad," he says, "But then, these are supposed to be on the bland side. It's the sauce that makes the dish."

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"Hmm." She reaches across a bank of work stations and snags a bit of purple rock powder, then dusts the rest of the dumpling with it for him.

And then her ears go back with surprise as a rather pale and ratty looking young human man comes running in shouting that there's a ship overhead!

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"Much better," Blitzwing says as he finishes the dumpling, and then pauses. Ship? "Swindle wasn't planning any deliveries today..." he said, curious.

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"That's what we call the planet, friend," says D'rng'tla, then falls silent for a moment before he speaks again. "Who is in charge on the island?"

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"I believe that would be Dalla," Icy returns to the front, and relays the information to Dalla as well.

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The Lu woman blinks. "Well, I'm not in charge of the whole Rock. But I'll talk to them."

"Is there somewhere we could land, friend? Or where some of us could disembark?"

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"How large is your ship?" Blitzwing asks, "Landing..may be difficult."

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D'rng'tla relates the dimensions of his vessel as Dalla shakes her head.

"I don't think this roof would hold it," says the Lu woman. "Can they come off of it?"

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D'rng'tla looks a little surprised, but when he sees Dalla drop gracefully to her knees he hunkers comfortably himself and waits till his companions are also comfortably settled before he replies.

"Ran's people were involved in helping the people of two islands that fell back into the sea a little time ago. Shortly after the islands disappeared they noticed a jet that started venturing into the space over their homeland, so they were curious and sent someone to tell my people and the Seevölker."

Dalla blinks a bit at this and looks at Blitzwing, knowing who that jet was.

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"Two Islands?" Blitzwing said. He knew of the one that exploded, not the other, "And...that jet was me. I was doing a bit of exploring, for trade reasons."

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"Yes." Ran nods. "One was high and the other low, but when the volcano on the higher one erupted both islands went back into the sea. The air people helped them to find homes on a larger island further south of where theirs had been."

Seefunkeln has her ears back in a puzzled frown, though her finely sculpted face is impassive.

"You vere ze jet?," she asks, one ear perking forward. "How can zat be?"

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"Oh, that's easy!" Random takes control, then steps back to give himself room before transforming into his jet form to show, "We can transform!"

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"Yes," says Dalla. "It will take a little while for them to be made."

"Ahh." Kkr'tz nods and then looks at Blitzwing. "Do you have books about your people?"

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"Not books, but there are datachips and vids of our history," Blitzwing says.

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The white-haired woman nods. "Ours are a similar kind, but we can make paper copies for you, Dalla."

"That might be best." The big furry woman chuckles. "Or else they might wind up turning into Nroo at the next spawn."

Then she twitches her ears thoughtfully. "Is there anything else you'd like to trade? Or have made?"

"Ah no, I don't think so, friend."

Ran, meanwhile, is looking at Blitzwing, his black eyes quizzical. "Would you be interested in information from my people too?"

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"If it is not too much trouble," Blitzwing says, "I'd have to return home in order to get my half of the trades, though."

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"They never come out," notes Dalla, looking at that nearest one with her ears back in a frown. "I can't imagine not feeling the wind on my face or seeing the sky with nothing in front of it."

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"Neither could I," Blitzwing agreed.

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"Well, I seldom see the sky or feel the wind," says Ran. "But I imagine locking myself away from the currents would be similar... and I wouldn't like that at all."

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Blitzwing agrees with that, "Though now I'm curious about them.."

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"As he said," says Dalla quietly. "It's the part that makes them alive. Since they're different from meat people, they probably act after death differently than we do, too."

The visitors all nod their understanding and agreement of this.

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Blitzwing nods at that, though he'd never heard of a case quite like Swindle's. Of course, he wasn't THAT familiar with organics that he knew what they did after death except stop moving. Kinda like them.

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The gathered beings speak for awhile longer, but then the Rock seems to tell them it's time to break things up and cuts loose with one of its rain storms. Dalla removes back to the factory after thanking her visitors, who laugh and signal that they're ready to return to their ship.