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[aunomdedieu]

Characters: aunomdedieu and OPEN.
Date: Backdated to midday, May 26th.
Summary: Caprica returns to the Gardens.
Warnings: Angst and emotional confusion? Spoilers for BSG season three, I guess. Shouldn't be anything else, but I'll warn if it comes up.

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[lovelikelight]

It is among the trees that Epsilon finds Caprica walking. The woman seems lost in thought. If that were all, perhaps Epsilon would not disturb her, but she has a distressed air, and Epsilon can tell that something is wrong, though she has no idea what that could be, or how grave a problem it is. She remembers that Caprica was said to have left the Gardens, but now she is here again.

Epsilon knows the woman, if not well, and so she moves toward her, approaching to a distance close enough to catch Caprica's attention, but far enough away that if Caprica wishes to be alone, she can retreat politely after a brief exchange.

"Good afternoon, Caprica." She doesn't say that it's good she's returned, as people have varying relationships with the Gardens and with their home worlds. "I'm pleased to see you again. It's been some time. Were you lost in the Wild Places, or did you go home?"

[aunomdedieu]

When she's walking through the forested parts of the Gardens, it's easy to believe she is somewhere else - in one of her own projections, perhaps. That illusion is shattered the moment she is addressed, the voice familiar. She goes still, glancing up.

"Epsilon." It's probably an indication of her level of upset that she doesn't smile as she normally would. Her voice is quiet, not unfriendly, but even. "I went home, for a while."

This is probably the one person in the Gardens she could tell about what's wrong, or parts of it. The parts of it that have to do with not being human, and not knowing what she should be feeling. Not knowing what she should want. But she's unsure how much she wants to say, if anything right now.

[lovelikelight]

She smiles, gently. "Your friend Dominique mentioned that you left. She seemed to believe you would not be returning. I imagine she'll be glad to see you again."

Epsilon guesses that leaving the Gardens and then returning to them must be disorienting, so she offers information, neutral and grounding. She does not have a great deal to report. "I'm not sure exactly when you left, but it's been quiet here. Since the robots returned to their home, we haven't heard from the Queen. There have been few developments, aside from more people leaving and arriving. Two of the young women here made an ocean, and it's been causing some slight problems with its side effects for the past few days."

She is not one to press unduly, but she asks, in case Caprica wishes to tell her, "How was home?" A simple, polite question, but if Caprica wishes to talk, she can.

backtags backtags~ also I am sorry for the tl;dr, this tag ran away from me. :x

[aunomdedieu]

There's a little tension in her expression when she hears Epsilon refer to Dominique as her friend. It's not that it's untrue - at least, Caprica does not think it is. But it's the reminder - she has ties here, relationships. Things she doesn't know if she should want for herself. Epsilon is... a little different perhaps, she's more like Caprica herself in the nature of her being, but Dominique and Jackie are human. And in her own world, humans are the enemy. Caprica had tried to create a place where the nature of that relationship was different, where human and Cylon could live together in peace, and she had failed. Catastrophically. The memory of New Caprica, the death and devastation on both sides still leaves a bitter taste in her mouth