Sign Nexus. Sign Area. I Roam Around Around Around

[misslucysleeches]

There's a newcomer to the Nexus today -- a woman in her very early thirties, with bright red hair and a forest-green sweater, sitting on one of the provided couches and looking at travel brochures. She wandered in earlier, and after the obligatory "?!?/can I get back" moment, has decided that she might as well do as the sign asks and ask a question. She spreads out her brochures on a table in front of her and looks up.

"So, random strangers! I'm a wanderer, and I've wandered almost all of the United States. So I think it's time I broke into international travel. Since it's my first time in this regard, I figured I'd at least start out by going to one of the more well-known cities, and see where adventure leads me from there."

She holds up three brochures.

"The question of the day is, then: London, Paris, or Rome?"

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[random_xtras]

"I've seen pictures at the library," says the little one seriously. "In some places in Rome, trucks are too wide to go through the streets. The trucks with motors."

Then she tips her head up and scrutinizes Lucy closely, seeming to look inside her. "What's your name? I'm Silver, and this is Love."

Love doesn't seem to be following the conversation, and doesn't show any response to her name being spoken.

[misslucysleeches]

"Really? How weird," Lucy says. "Then again, when you're designing a city before the days of trucks with motors. . ." This is actually a tick for Rome in her head -- she kind of wants to see just how narrow those streets really are now.

The staring makes Lucy a bit uneasy, but she does her best to hide it. "Lucy Leech," she says, tentatively holding out a hand to Silver. She glances at Love, not sure what to say to her -- if anything.

[blindlovegirl]

Love responds before Silver does, setting one warm, slightly calloused hand into Lucy's with the faintly uncertain attitude of one who cannot see. The small, quick movements of her hand in Lucy's may show the red haired girl that Love also cannot hear.

"She says hi," says Silver, smiling. "She says that she likes narrow streets because they're easier to remember."

[misslucysleeches]

Oh -- oh! Lucy doesn't really know any sign language, but she can guess from what's going on that Love is deaf and blind. She bites her lip, feeling just a touch awkward.

She nods gratefully to Silver for the translation. "I see. Hello Love," she says, hoping Silver will translate back. "Sorry, I don't know much sign. . ."

[random_xtras]

"Don't worry, I'm telling her what you say with my mind, and she's thinking what she'd like me to say back to you. She's just signing because she thinks with her hands." Silver rubs the end of her little pug nose with a flat hand, and then pushes her hair out of her face. In the process of doing so she reveals herself to be the owner of very cute little ears with tiny points.

Love, meanwhile, having shaken hands and made sure of where the person she's talking to is, then smiled at Lucy, will now take her hand back and fold it together with its mate as she turns her face toward Silver.

[misslucysleeches]

"Oh! Well, that's good," she says with a smile. She does note the ears, but -- again, just talked with giant robots. If this girl is an elf -- or some creature that happens to look like an elf -- then she thinks she can handle it.

She smiles back at Love on instinct -- though, really, if Silver's telling her what she's saying with her mind, she can tell her Lucy gave her a smile too. "You two just come by because of the question, or did you see any of the other stop by and get interested?"

[random_xtras]

"We came to answer the question," says Silver. "And Love likes to meet new people."

Love, apparently staring at the floor now, though really listening to what Silver is relaying of the conversation, lifts a fist and nods it at this point, agreeing with what the little girl has said.

"We're on our way to the Black Dog," Silver continues. "Do you want to come?"

[misslucysleeches]

"Well, I like to meet new people too," Lucy nods. "And I've been meeting plenty of them here. Guess that's only to be expected if this is a multiversal meeting point like everybody tells me, though."

Lucy tilts her head, looking thoughtful. "The last guys mentioned it -- that's the place that's got the LOL encyclopedia and such, right? Also a rock band, I think?" Yes, Optimus already gave her all the pamphlets and the encyclopedia, but gathering as much info as she can is probably the best thing to do in these circumstances. Besides, she's curious to see the place after the boys talked about it.

[random_xtras]

"It is a multiv... one of those." Silver nods, then grins a little bit. "Optimus and Uncle Sam don't play till tomorrow."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy giggles -- too cute -- then arches an eyebrow. "Oh, I seeee. . . And uncle Sam, huh?" Are you part-bot too, little girl?

[random_xtras]

Silver snerks and shakes her head, eyes dancing. "No, I'm a Guardian Fae Dragon. That's the name of the band."

[misslucysleeches]

Ooooh. Well. That explains a few things. "That'll make two I've met today -- which is more than I ever expected to meet," Lucy says.

[random_xtras]

"That Optimus is a Changeling," says Silver, shaking her head with childish vigour. "I'm not."

A small point, but little girls are often sticklers for such things.

[misslucysleeches]

"Yeah, he said, more or less," Lucy allows with a nod. "So you were born as one, huh? All natural, you could say."

[random_xtras]

Childlike, by way of answer Silver reaches into her pocket and takes out a little bit of broken something that shimmers exquisitely silver.

Yes. It's a bit of eggshell.

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy has to admit, she wasn't expecting that. She looks at the broken bit of shell. "Wow," she murmurs. "It's pretty." Maybe not the most intelligent thing she could say, but. . .

[random_xtras]

Silver thoughtfully studies the shard like she'd earlier studied Lucy.

"Yes, but I was really tired of looking at it before I finally got to come out."

Love's mouth twitches at the corners, and her blind eyes smile as she pat pats her small friend with sympathy.

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy can't help a tiny laugh. "Yeah, I guess the view would get pretty dull if you were stuck in there," she allows. "But hey -- you're out and about in the wide world now."

[random_xtras]

Silver grins as she puts away her bit of shell. "Yeah, but I just learned to look like this a little while ago. Before that all I could do was lift my head up and cheep."

[misslucysleeches]

"Well, human babies can't do much more than wave their limbs randomly and cry, so. . ." Lucy shrugs.

[random_xtras]

"I was already this smart, so I didn't like being so floppy." Silver looks at Lucy's tray. "Do you know what poutine is?"

[misslucysleeches]

"Ahh -- yeah, I can imagine that would get really annoying really fast," Lucy allows. She glances at what remains of her impromptu lunch. "French fries with brown gravy and cheese curds. Had it once in a greasy spoon near the Canadian border. Didn't really click with me." She thinks she likes ketchup best.

[random_xtras]

"You can put ketchup on too," says Silver, and then looks up, her eyes wide and her little face red with blush as she realizes what she just did.

Love senses the tension in Silver's hand and lifts her head, frowning uncertainly as she tries to figure out what just happened.

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy's struck silent for a moment, but only a moment. Okay. Telepathic. Perhaps she should have expected that. "I -- don't think it goes well with the gravy stuff," she says, deciding the best thing is just to go along with it. "I can't imagine it on cheese either."

[random_xtras]

"I thought I heard it with my ears." Silver is all quietly apologetic little girl dignity as she absently hugs the now understanding and relaxed Love's hand. "Sometimes when people think loud I can't tell unless I'm looking at them."

Maybe a bit much explaining for someone who seems to have accepted it. But Silver has met a lot of epic fits about 'get out of my head!' in her life.