008, video;

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[The video clicks on to show RIkku sitting on a small bed up against a wall. Next to her is a burlap sack, her daggers, a tool box, and a pile of textbooks (history, English for Dummies, four volumes of Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, and others,) all of which have oil and grease stains on them. She has very little worldly possessions, as people

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[namiwasheretoo]

Brother?

[Oh don't mind her. She just happened to come in for the end of her recording, and Brother, nice dead guy, and some very interesting words she couldn't even begin to know caught her attention.]

[Enter Nami, pulling a messenger bag over her head and tossing it to her own bed.] Hey, you must be Rikku! [Smiles! Long orange hair in pig tails, bikini top, long pants and heels. Say hello to one of your room mates]

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[namiwasheretoo]

Pretty much. I've gotten good about the streets here, and I know how to use the NV well now. If we were at sea though I could manage with out the stars. Hnnn though this sea feels wrong. [She hates the water and tide around here. Doesn't feel right]

So you had big machines back home? You used to build them too? Is there nothing like that here? [A pause...] We don't have things like that back home. Not really.

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[A lot of things about this city feel wrong, but Rikku tries not to let that get to her. At least, she hopes nothing goes wrong enough to make her crazy.]

Lots of 'em! Most of them were buried in the desert though. We dug them up and started putting them together to see how they worked. My teachers tell me that's called reverse engineering. [It's a long story about Machina. She won't get into it just yet.] There's some stuff like that here, but I haven't seen anything that looks like what I know back home. ...does that mean your ship didn't have an engine?