Stacy's voice speaks over the whole of the ship. What she has to say has become very familiar over the the podlings have spent here ( Read more... )

San knew that when people wanted to go to the Sensorium it was for two reasons. The first was to escape the oppressive strangeness of Stacy's body. She could hardly blame them, wanting some memory made reality, some fantastic setting for training or celebration. After all, even she wanted the forest's embrace more and more with every passing day. ( Read more... )

San's shoulder was not healed. But pain was relative, and if she'd been at home, in her forest, then this would be nothing next to the pit in her stomach. It was more important to stay sharp, to hunt this simulation of the Wilds instead of laying on her back and feeling her stomach burn with shame or guilt ( Read more... )

The daily trek down into the City to the Drunken Dragon tavern was something Kang had come to consider normal on Stacy. Even if he only spent a few minutes there, it was still exercise, and a piece of home for him. Sometimes, like that day, Kaylee would walk with him, and they'd talk about various happenings on the ship, or share stories from ( Read more... )

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home ( Read more... )

Several buildings in the City had been completely destroyed during Aang's rampage, but a few had survived relatively unscathed. It had only taken Kang two days to repair the Drunken Dragon; he'd done so by himself, not even waiting for his leg to heal up a bit first ( Read more... )

San had, in her agitated boredom, in distress over the nightmare, begun hunting through the too-dead city like a pup after squirrels. 'Exploring' was too harsh a word, but after enough miles of semi-paved streets and decrepit, abandoned human dwellings, she had begun overturning paving stones to let the soil underneath breathe. A few times, she'd ( Read more... )

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home ( Read more... )