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[aunomdedieu]

[ Caprica has stayed out of the way during the monster curse - thank God she didn't seem to be affected by it. And she doesn't know anyone involved personally (it has occurred to her how little she knows anyone here, a distance of her own making), but there's so much pain on the Vine right now and she doesn't want to deal with it

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[gravityfists]

[ Stephanie's always the last to know when she's tried. It might be fairly evident on the outside - her eyes are narrowed, with dark, heavy bags beneath them - but it's simply how she's used to feeling. Back home, she attends college in the day and patrols the city of a night, which doesn't leave much time at all for sleep-it's a luxury, one that she hasn't done much in the way of affording herself lately. Now that the trouble with the transformations has apparently died down (and, indeed, her own metamorphosis has worn off), she's finally taken off the Batgirl costume, and is wandering out in the open, lost in her thoughts. One arm is in a sling, though it doesn't seem terribly out of place on her, somehow ]

[ on her way to nowhere in particular, she reaches the lake, and there she spots Caprica, skipping stones. Stephanie doesn't recognise her, and immediately she's curious; even if she's only doing so subconsciously, she's really been embracing the detective side of her role, lately. She's made it her business to know everyone. She'd like to do so in a wholly non-creepy way, but supposes that isn't possible, with what she wears of a night. Instead, she pushes Batgirl to the side, and slowly heads over to the woman. Kneeling down by the edge of the lake, Stephanie picks up a stone of her own, weighing it in her palm for a few moments ]

Hey. Want some company? 'cause it's a big lake, and I can always find my own spot to skip stones.

[aunomdedieu]

[ She glances over at Stephanie, caught off guard for a moment by her approach. But then her expression shifts into something a little more relaxed - just a little - and she smiles slightly. ]

I don't mind at all.

[gravityfists]

'kay. [ pushing herself back to her feet, Stephanie pulls her arm back, tossing the stone towards the water. It skims the surface, skipping two, three, four times, before veering off course ] Enjoying the great outdoors, huh?

[aunomdedieu]

[ Her eyes lower, her smile thinning a little. ]

Something like that.

[ She leans down, picks up another stone, turns it over in her hand, more like she's feeling the texture than anything. ]

What about you?

[gravityfists]

Sure. In so far as I have a choice in it, anyway. Back home, this much open space meant-[ possibly crazy green women claiming the land for their own, raising hoards of homeless kids, and occasionally trying to taken over the city with sentient, tentacle-like plants, but that was probably a story better left for another day ] I dunno, drunk homeless guys making obscene gestures at you. Or Africa. This kinda reminds me of being there.

[aunomdedieu]

[ The name 'Africa' doesn't strike a chord with her, but she files it away for future reference. She tosses the stone in her hand out across the water, watches the ripples it makes as it skims over the lake. ]

I'd never seen anything like this before coming here.

[gravityfists]

Really? [ she kicks at some of the loose stones around her feet, using her toes to dig out a few that are suitable for throwing ] I guess some of this is new to me. The Vine, making stuff with dirt... but it's all just a variation on the same crazy theme. So where're you from, anyway?

[aunomdedieu]

[ Caprica had seen parks, but never anything quite this expansive or open. All her experience on a planetary surface was in Caprica City, or on New Caprica, which was nothing at all like the Gardens - barren, cold, unforgiving. This lush greenery is fully new to her.

The question makes her pause a moment, considering her answer. Considering how she's going to lie to this woman, because telling the truth about this in particular is still beyond her. ]

It's a little bit complicated. Have you heard of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol?

[ It's still very strange to her to ask that. ]

[gravityfists]

I think everyone's world is a little bit complicated. Or a lot complicated, now that we're here. But I've never heard of 'em. Sorry. [ which isn't to say that she rules them entirely out of being in her universe. If this woman isn't human, she wouldn't be particularly surprised; after all, Supergirl doesn't look all that different to her. Then again, technically, everyone she meets here are aliens in their own way ] Are they on Earth, or some other planet?

[aunomdedieu]

[ Earth. If Caprica hadn't heard someone else here talking about being from Earth, she might have been caught utterly flat-footed by just hearing the word. As it is, she does laugh, a brief, startled little sound. ]

Not at all. The Colonies are twelve separate planets.

[ She pauses for a moment, and then she has to ask- ]

... You're from Earth.

[gravityfists]

[ Earth, Stephanie figures, must be a whole lot more interesting when you aren't from it. Like when you go on vacation, and end up wondering why the locals aren't as excited by every nook and cranny as you are. Still, the laughter catches her off-guard ]

Yup, born and raised on Earth. I only had the only planet to pick from.

[aunomdedieu]

[ She presses her lips together, a touch self-conscious. ]

I'm sorry. It's only- Earth is a myth, where I'm from.

[gravityfists]

Huh. Earth's a myth? [ she can't help but laugh a little at that, odd as the thought may be ] Well, lady, I'm here to tell you that it's 100% real. Nothing mythical about it.

'cept for the people with powers of the gods. I guess that is a bit out there.

[aunomdedieu]

[ She arches a brow at that, interested and a little disconcerted to hear that people on Earth are apparently polytheists, and quite unaware that there are actually multiple religions involved in the equation. ]

I've never known anyone to have that kind of power.

[ Idly, she moves a little closer to the lakeshore, bends down to run her fingers through the shallow water there, looking for another stone. ]