[three] | [voice] | wtf trains -- omg TRAINS.

[awfulfirstname]

[At some time around nine in the morning (or whatever serves as nine in the morning in Taxon) there is a loud expression of glee issuing from the tablets. Tonks awoke this morning to an unusual sound, and upon investigation, has discovered the train system that has appeared in Taxon over night

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[voice]

[biverbam]

[There is a long and dubious pause. River wasn't asleep, but that was kind of loud, and trains? What is this nonsense?]

How many tests?

[She'll need to hatch some pencils. Or maybe just a chill pill for Simon should she wander off in the night to investigate randomly appearing transportation.]

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[awfulfirstname]

Er, well, I thought only one test would do. D'you think we need more?

[Oh, Tonks. Your Riverese is rusty.]

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[biverbam]

What kind of test?

[That's fine. River's Tonkese could use work, too.]

[awfulfirstname]

Well, it shouldn't be a very difficult one, it's only taking a ride on them.

[biverbam]

[Oh. Well then, that tosses River's idea for written exams and meticulous checking of engine bits and wheels and tracks right out the window.]

A ride would be acceptable.

[That means she wants to go along. Kind of. Looks like a chill pill for Simon will be in order.]

[awfulfirstname]

[She's welcome to keep on with the written exams, though Tonks wouldn't be any help in that regard.]

So you'd like to go, then? Dawn offered to go as well.

[Troll patrol train ride!]

[biverbam]

[She might try that later, once she knows what questions to ask the trains.]

Yes. ...Please.

[The first part is enthusiastic, with the 'please' tacked on as an afterthought. Now the Troll Brigade can get to you no matter where you may be. Fear, Taxon. Fear.]

[awfulfirstname]

I can come get you, if you'd like! I think I can manage Side-Along Apparation.

[biverbam]

Can walk.

[Sorry, Tonks, she doesn't quite trust that yet. And here go sounds of River off to find the little 'Tonks' labeled dot on her tablet.]

[awfulfirstname]

I'll wait for you, then! [La la la, Tonks is waiting outside a train, staring at it with a big grin.]

[>>>location: tram stop with Tonks]

[biverbam]

It's not a very long walk at all to get to the station Tonks is at from Serenity. River, however, is taking that walk barefooted and still in the clothes she was sleeping in.

Thus, by the time she shows up, looking at the trains like they're about to disappear as quickly as came and running a hand along all the new buildings and pieces, she looks just as out of place as the trains themselves.

"Whose is it?"

[>>>location: tram stop with River]

[awfulfirstname]

Tonks is still wearing her pajamas, which are pretty much the same thing she arrived in, and she's watching the trains with her hands in her flannel pants' pockets.

When River gets there, Tonks grins at her, bouncing excitedly on her heels.

"Whose is what, the trains? No idea."

[>>>location: tram stop with River]

[biverbam]

River's pajamas are less actual pajama, more small black shorts and a rumpled tee-shirt of unknown origin. With matching rumpled hair. It's quite the look.

"Independent anomaly," she says as she touches the side of the bench, eyes on the ground. "Conservation of matter, mass." Then she's looking back up at Tonks very seriously. "Had to come from somewhere."

[awfulfirstname]

It's fashionable. Not like Tonks cares, she's concerned about the trains, not clothes. Psh, clothes.

"Well yes, I'd assume so, but things come out of nowhere from those hatch-things, too." Tonks says thoughtfully, tilting her head at River. "I wouldn't know much about the physics part, though."

[biverbam]

River only gives Tonks a look, somewhere between amused and manic.

"There's instigation-- Promethial. Sparks and even feeding five thousand with more left over required intervention... Causation. Finding the spark is a priority."