It can't be all bad. Kanaya hadn't strayed too far from the bomb shelter in her first hour here, actually enjoying sitting in the threshold typing away on her laptop and catching up with old acquaintances before closing it up, captchaloguing it, and heading back downstairs for a drink.
She had not noticed Vriska huddled in one of the beanbag chairs before, and delicate eyebrows raise when she recognizes her old moirail. Her blood-pumping valve went a-flutter, and the auspisticer tried too hard not to smile.
"Vriska! I did not see you there. Did you just get here too?"
"Kanaya!" Vriska practically leaped out of her chair, straight into a hug with Kanaya. "Oh Jegus, Kanaya, thank god you're here, I just don't know what to do, Terezi and Gamzee and Karkat and Tavros are here too but Tavros is being retarded and changed his name or something, and Terezi's just being an asshole and so is Karkat and they're just making me so fucking mad I can't think-"
Vriska paused and slowly let go of Kanaya. Why the hell did she hug her?
Kanaya stumbles back when she's pulled up into a hug, eyes widening with surprise as she braces an arm on Vriska for balance. The stronger girl had almost knocked the breath out of the fragile troll (relatively speaking, as 'fragile troll' is an oxymoron).
She smiles fondly as she's let go, smoothing out her shirt and otherwise looking completely unruffled. Without thinking, she reaches over and smoothes out Vriska's sleeve, adjusting the collar of her jacket just right so she'd look presentable, politely nodding as she listened to the list of problems.
Problems that she could help with!
Kanaya gives Vriska a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "You should not worry yourself too much about them, Vriska. And you should respect Tavros's lifestyle changes if it makes him happier. Are you doing well for yourself besides that?"
"Fucking terrible! I get teleported out of the veil and into another stupid hell hole where people I hate are! Business as usual, I guess! I mean, Karkat insulted my love life! My fucking love life! I can't believe the NERVE of that asshole! Just my luck I guess, falling out of one hell and right into another! Life is nothing but a delight for me, that's for fucking sure!"
Vriska rambled on, comfortably falling into her usual pattern of using Kanaya as her emotional drainpipe.
"It takes one to know one!" Vriska actually having fun makes Kanaya happy, something she doesn't bother hiding. And having so badly missed her old moirail, it's even better. She smiles again, grabbing on to Vriska's hand and pulling herself up. There's no time wasted in between being on the ground and back on her feet, the Virgo immediately reaches out and starts picking chunks of mulch off the blueblood's coat.
Her light grip lingers on Vriska's hand for a little bit, before she catches what she's doing and quickly lets go with a sheepish bowing of her head as she attempts to steer the conversation in a different direction. "I wonder what else this place has. We will have to find somewhere to live at some point."
"Fuuuuuuuuck, we are gonna have to find something, aren't we?" Vriska's smile slipped off her face. "And food, too. Where the hell are we going to get that? There's nothing here!"
Vriska groaned and rubbed the bridge of her nose. "Man, we are totally fucked. Does this place even have food? I don't think computer constructs need to eat or anything."
"It would be insane to construct a hive in this particular clearing," Kanaya nods with agreement, turning to look out at the edge of the park where greenery meets asphalt. "Maybe we can see if we can't inhabit one of those empty hivestems... but I'm not so sure about food. There are stores here, but I don't exactly know how to get to them. Perhaps we can look further?"
Vriska sighed. "Damn it. Might as well, this ground of recreation isn't going to start sprouting candy anytime soon." Vriska strolls back to the road, walking toward the blocks they had yet to see. "I bet the food that would be here would suck anyway. Like, all simulated shit. Yuuuuuuuuck."
"A place to live would be good, yes," Kanaya nods in agreement. "I can't imagine it being too hard to just... move in somewhere. The place is mostly empty, so why not?"
Sometime later, after they left the grocery store, the two trolls set out to investigate the nearby apartment buildings. They eventually settle on a spacious loft apartment, with wide open windows allowing for plenty of sunlight to filter in and a good view of the streets below. Kanaya smiles as she stands in the threshold, surveying the front room.
Vriska gazes out the window, looking over the cityscape below. "Yeah! This is totally awesome." She walks over to the bedroom and peers inside... at only one bed. "Aww, fuck. Uh, Kanaya? This place doesn't have a recuperacoon. You know what beds are, right? We slept on them in the Veil?"
"You didn't really think there'd be recuperacoons here, did you? This is a human city..."
Kanaya shrugs and does her shuffling walk over to the kitchen, de-captchaloguing her various food items and setting them out on the counter to put them in their proper places. Mannnn, this kitchen is nice~ Granite countertops and one of those shiny new fridges. The whole place is nice, really, for a communal hivestem.
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She had not noticed Vriska huddled in one of the beanbag chairs before, and delicate eyebrows raise when she recognizes her old moirail. Her blood-pumping valve went a-flutter, and the auspisticer tried too hard not to smile.
"Vriska! I did not see you there. Did you just get here too?"
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Vriska paused and slowly let go of Kanaya. Why the hell did she hug her?
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She smiles fondly as she's let go, smoothing out her shirt and otherwise looking completely unruffled. Without thinking, she reaches over and smoothes out Vriska's sleeve, adjusting the collar of her jacket just right so she'd look presentable, politely nodding as she listened to the list of problems.
Problems that she could help with!
Kanaya gives Vriska a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "You should not worry yourself too much about them, Vriska. And you should respect Tavros's lifestyle changes if it makes him happier. Are you doing well for yourself besides that?"
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Vriska rambled on, comfortably falling into her usual pattern of using Kanaya as her emotional drainpipe.
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Her light grip lingers on Vriska's hand for a little bit, before she catches what she's doing and quickly lets go with a sheepish bowing of her head as she attempts to steer the conversation in a different direction. "I wonder what else this place has. We will have to find somewhere to live at some point."
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Vriska groaned and rubbed the bridge of her nose. "Man, we are totally fucked. Does this place even have food? I don't think computer constructs need to eat or anything."
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Sometime later, after they left the grocery store, the two trolls set out to investigate the nearby apartment buildings. They eventually settle on a spacious loft apartment, with wide open windows allowing for plenty of sunlight to filter in and a good view of the streets below. Kanaya smiles as she stands in the threshold, surveying the front room.
"What do you think?"
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Kanaya shrugs and does her shuffling walk over to the kitchen, de-captchaloguing her various food items and setting them out on the counter to put them in their proper places. Mannnn, this kitchen is nice~ Granite countertops and one of those shiny new fridges. The whole place is nice, really, for a communal hivestem.
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Vriska also begins unpacking her groceries, smashing open the magic eight balls that her sylladex contains them in. "Oh, god, I needed that..."
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