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[lonewolflives]

Arya was watching the sky, but not because she was trying to spot the space station she'd been told was up there. She couldn't quite wrap her head around the idea, no matter that she'd had space and the idea of travel in it explained to her years ago, she still ended up picturing it like a black sea with a kind of raft in it. Made of metal, she

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[babyviper]

"I wish I had wings," O-Ren remarked from where she stood beside the bird. The live one, anyway. "Except then I might have to sit on someone's hand and wear something on my eyes."

She sat down, sprawling her legs out in front of her, mindful for a moment or two not of the blood nearby, but that her legs were getting longer.

[lonewolflives]

"Don't be silly," Arya said, crouching down beside Colette and carefully interposing a piece of meat from a previous kill between her and the pheasant, so she could lure the bird back onto her arm. "You'd never fit on my hand. I'd have to work something else out."

[babyviper]

O-Ren laughed quietly, and watches Arya tempt the bird back onto her hand. "I think some parts of me fit your hand quite well," she said, and then lifted her face to the sky. "Did you hear that there's a space station up there?"

[lonewolflives]

"I heard," she said, lifting her head to look in the same direction. "It's like a house in the sky? Or not a house, like the compound. And it just... stays up."

She knew about gravity, she'd taken physics, she still found it hard to imagine. She half-figured it was all to with magic, anyway, no matter however they'd done it back in the worlds they had things like that. Here, magic, seemed as reasonable an answer as any.

[babyviper]

"A house made of metal," O-Ren said, expanding on the idea. "I wonder if--" She had to really stop and think, and it was a little worrying, how hard she had to search for the words and the idea. "If they have something that creates gravity there, or if they all float around?"