{Data Stream 7} - For Want of What We Had

[hisoldgirl]

[the TARDIS is looking forlornly out one of the several windows on the ship, her eyes focused entirely on the planet underneath. she's tapping the glass idly with her nail, expression unreadable, though there's a certain longing in her eyes if one looks close enough. her Sphere pans around her and she ignores it entirely]It is similar to so many

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[celestial_okami]

[Ammy's ears flick forward and she whuffs softly, almost as if she were agreeing with the TARDIS.]

[hisoldgirl]

[glances at the goddess, then simply nods and looks back out] You dislike it here, as well?

[celestial_okami]

I dislike it when I am not allowed to return, and I dislike being separated from Nippon, and I do not like being separated from nature. But I have found important friends upon this ship, so in a way, it is not so bad.

[She looks to the planet and its strange colors.] Though I would not mind finding out what it would be like to run on that planet. I wish I could see it more closely.

[hisoldgirl]

I am still finding it difficult to properly socialise. I have never had to before.

[turns back to the planet] I would enjoy seeing its surface, as well, mapping out its lifeforms. I dislike being barred from doing so.

[celestial_okami]

I have, though up until recently it was very limited. I only regained my ability to speak shortly before I first arrived here. I am still growing accustomed to proper human mannerisms again.

Ahh, it would be interesting to see the animals there. I miss seeing animals. [Her ears droop a little. Oh homesickness.] I would have to agree with you on that.

[hisoldgirl]

Why do you desire to become so accustomed? You are not human. Why behave as they behave?

You favour fauna, then? I have never much cared for such biological entities. They tend to muck about my interior.

[celestial_okami]

I have found behaving as I usually do gets me in more trouble in this form than not, and I learn because it is interesting. I may not be human, but I am fond of my children regardless.

I care for all living things, it is my duty. What of yourself?

[hisoldgirl]

Your children? You fashion yourself a deity, or are you as I am and claim those who are meaningful to you?

I care for the Doctor and a handful of others who travel with him. I do not care for any others than those.

[celestial_okami]

I am what I am, I would not wish to claim I was something I am not. Though there are those who I have met in my travels that are special to me, and I am glad that I have grown to know them better.

The Doctor? [Head tilt.]

[hisoldgirl]

I have never met a true deity, only those lifeforms who believe themselves higher than those around them. Alien species who aim to subjugate peoples of less-advanced worlds.

[nods] My pilot.

[celestial_okami]

[Ammy shakes her head.] I would not know of alien species, though I have always watched over Nippon from the Celestial Plains.

Pilot? [Again the head tilt. That is an unfamiliar term]

[hisoldgirl]

You are from an Earth and a universe vastly different than my own, then. I would be interested in learning more.

Yes. I am his ship. I take him where he will through the galaxies.

[celestial_okami]

I would be happy to speak of it with you, if you wish.

His ship? You do not look like a ship... [Confused goddess is confused.] Though traveling through the galaxies sounds rather exciting. I wonder what it would be like.

[hisoldgirl]

I do not wish, but I would be interested, yes.

I am trapped in this body while here and therefore unable to assume my true shape, but I am certainly a ship. [looks back out the window] It is all I have known. It is all I desire, to see the stars with my Doctor. It is freedom.

[celestial_okami]

Ah, it was a figure of speech.

I know that feeling. [She pauses for a moment.] There is a way back. I am not sure how, but I do know that I was returned to Nippon. It is possible, though the means are beyond my knowledge. I am sure that someday we will all be returned home.

[hisoldgirl]

You returned? How did you manage such a thing as that?