She Works Hard for the Money [Active/Open]

[alottalottie]

Character(s): Lottie, open
Content: Miss LaBouff starts collecting "money" from around town.
Setting: Paixao Central Station...specifically, on the train heading east.
Time: Afternoon, Week 21
Warnings: None

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[samplethesoul]

From Grace's perspective, it was impossible to be entirely lonely in a place like this. One just never knew when they'd run into something completely out of the ordinary. In Grace's case, she was the something out of the ordinary and she actually enjoyed seeing how the locals reacted to having a blue Avatar that was over nine feet tall wandering around them. It definitely made things interesting.

The only problem was that she couldn't actually fit on the trains as a Na'vi. Too tall for the cab, too big for the seats. So she'd taken to wandering around on foot. And it wasn't so bad. Made things interesting just to see what she had to duck under and what she didn't

[limitbreakpilot]

After so long in Paixao, Cid liked to think that he'd gotten used to pretty much anything that the place had to offer. And if that wasn't enough, the Planet wasn't entirely free of oddities either. Unfortunately, neither of them really prepared him for a Na'vi. It wasn't like the Planet usually had nine-foot-tall blue... whatever the hell that was wondering around.

(Okay, so maybe they had large blue things, if blue was allowed to shade into purple, but it wasn't really like behemoths stood upright. Or wore clothes.)

"...the hell?" he couldn't help but murmuring.

[alottalottie]

"Goodness gracious," Lottie whispered. As the train slowed into the next station, her attention was pulled back into focus by the oddity that was Grace. While she'd already come to the conclusion that Paixao was a very different place indeed, she'd never once considered there'd actually be giant blue creatures running around. Lottie stood up from her seat slowly, almost entranced as she watched Grace outside, and the train stopped entirely.

There was a moment's hesitation -- was the creature hostile? -- but Lottie was clutching her bag and bouncing off the train in a matter of seconds. She was so excited and curious that she dropped her bag, the jewels and metals scattering over the station's pavement. "Shoot!" she shouted, pouting as she knelt to gather her money.

"Excuse me? Lil' blue cat animal thing?" Lottie called out to Grace, hoping to deter her long enough that she'd be able to catch up.

derp

[samplethesoul]

Grace wasn't much of one normally to help anyone, but that was mostly due to her preference of keeping her human work separated from the pleasure she took being an Avatar. Without any of the real Na'vi here to work with, her actual work and desire to do anything wasn't nearly as pronounced. Nor was the problem with... well, everything to do with the RDA. Which was nice. But she still missed the Na'vi. And she had no idea how everything had turned out after she'd seen Eywa. She assumed she was supposed to die, but here she was, walking, talking, and breathing.

That wasn't a particularly pleasant thought and Grace was about to move around the train when she noticed someone semi-close by gathering up things from the pavement... and then calling out to her.

Certainly there were worse things to be called, but a blue cat thing was not on Grace's list of nice nicknames... Nevermind "little." Rolling her eyes inwardly, she turned around and placed a hand on her hip.

"Can I help you?" she asked, looking waaaaaaay far down at Lottie.

[limitbreakpilot]

For all that Cid could have simply left things be and moved on, he had to admit that he might as well see what the hell was going on. Besides, if that woman was going he might as well go too. What if the thing turned out to be hostile? Not that he was particularly sure a spear would be the most effect thing, but hell, it would be a damned sight better than no one.

Still, he was less interested in new things than Lottie was, and if he made less of a hurry to get to the whatsit from the the train station that was only to be expected. It wasn't really going anywhere - or so he hoped.

Unfortunately, his late arrival meant that he missed both Lottie's comment as well as Grace's answer, but no problem. He could wait for a bit easily enough.