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( She takes another swig from the water bottle, screws the cap back on, tosses it in her bag, then nods.

And takes off jogging, bags tossed over her shoulder, a woman on a mission.

Mission: Get the Hell Out of the Mall. She recalls where the next node was supposed to be and doesn't allow herself to hesitate in tracking that bad boy down like it owes her personally for the inconvenience of getting lost in a uber-mall. )

[Mew Mew lets out a soft "geh" at Annie taking off like that, as she does her best to follow. And considering her boots are heeled and most certainly not made for running, she's actually doing a good job of keeping up with the other young woman. She is trusting Annie fully to know where to go too.

Since Mew Mew was not paying that much attention to where the nodes are inside the mall.]

( Annie, the small force of single-woman espionage in enemy territory, ends up being right on the nose, slowing down as they hit the larger area with the node standing at ready. No one's in line here, possibly because they're in Collector's Hell, and she slaps her palm on the activation next to the node, bringing up the destination screen. )

It's a longer distance and a bigger drain to get back where we started. Shorter that gets us above ground plops us in Nightwake. Preference?

( Longer means more drained, shorter means less drained. No time difference as far as they'll note. She looks to Mew Mew for confirmation: Annie knows what she'd pick, but she's also not running solo in Operation: Get the Hell Out of the Mall. )

[Phew, it's a good thing there isn't a line here or else she has a hunch someone would get hurt. The question though gives her some pause before she answers;]

Outside, I might be used to being underground, but this has gotten ridiculous.

[She is done with the mall for today.]

( Annie nods, tapping her finger on the most immediate way out. The node primes itself, and she gestures for both of them to step within its circle, the world flashing away in that peculiar blink and you miss it fashion.

Then they're in the free air above, stepping into a notably different time of day, with a milling group of people walking past on the sidewalk. Nowhere near one of the official gateways down into the whole Underground Mall.

Annie practically leaps away from the node platform and turns her face up toward the sky, so glad there's sky up there to see. So very, very glad. )

I really don't feel like getting stuck underground anymore.

[Freedom! Sure, Mew Mew still isn't used to using the nodes so she's a bit off from it but also... Watching Annie look to the sky like that?

Kind of reminds her of when she first went up to the Surface back home... It's making her blush a little as she looks away to not get caught staring at Annie.]

Y-yeah, once you know what it's like to not be looking at a cave roof? You really don't want to go back to it.

Mmm. Feels similar to when you see nothing at all. Once you open your eyes again, you never want to keep them closed.

( By the time she looks away from the sky, Mew Mew has been given the gift of time to let her blush fade away. Not that Annie would question it hard, given she has a hair-trigger blush for the few times she's really aware of herself and certain things. )

Now we're that much freer. At least for the time being, right?

Mm, yeah. Although I don't think I'll be going back down there anytime soon.

[She means it, if she has to she will find a clothing store outside of the mall or learn to sew herself!]

( Annie grimaces, hoping she can end up saying the same. )

Next time, we'll definitely stay above ground. Let's see about finding an airship or something back to the apartment complex?

[Poor Annie, even though Mew Mew wants to never go back there anytime soon? She's probably going to end up there sooner rather than later.]

... an airship? Like flying?

[As she will admit later to Annie over text, Mew Mew doesn't look up that often and didn't notice the airships.]

( Annie nods, brushing her hair back off her face. )

Yeah. There's a few different types and sizes, but the smallest ones are moving all over Nightwake and out into the other city sections. Then the skies clear up a bit. The longest airship rides take you out into the Segments, from what I understand.

( Also, it saves energy for her personally compared to using another the teleportation nodes to get back to the starting apartments. )

Are you afraid of heights?

[She listens to Annie with rapt attention as she explains everything about the airships.]

I see. [It's all very interesting! As to fear of heights whelp.]

Not really? I mean I don't think so? I've never been up really high before.

( Giving a small shrug of her shoulders, and the bags she's carrying, Annie says: )

One easy way to find out. Shall we?

Right, the worst outcome is I can just walk back myself!

[She means it, she will walk alone back to the apartments just so Annie doesn't have to stick around any longer.]

( Annie takes that at face value, taking another look at the sky before she pulls out her phone and slowly, achingly slowly, pulls up a map. At least she started walking before the whole slow process began, based on her judgments and seeing a few of the consistent angles of the airships in the sky, so sooner rather than later, she guides them to one of the smaller airship docking stations. Then it's a matter of paying mooncoins for a ticket on the short shuttle run toward the general Welcome Center area, climbing the stairs versus the lift (Annie doesn't even ask, she refuses to be in a small enclosed space right now), and achieving the docking level, with its wraparound viewing windows and walkway out into the city.

Not high enough for some portions, with the area they're in right now, there's a semi-decent view. )

Looking out not bothering you?

[Mew Mew follows, not saying anything about map pulling up time. It's not her place, after all. Once they're at the station and she's paid for herself, she stops looking at the lift when Annie goes for the stairs.

But she follows her up the stairs, maybe being cheeky and taking two at a time. Once at the docking level she looks out the windows with awe on her face.]

Nope! And... I didn't think anything could go up this high?

( Annie raises her eyebrows at the two at a time, but her own lack of hurry up the stairs is having to run up and down stairs as part of training. Why do so now?

Annie catches sight of her expression, finding herself with a sort of smile on her face. It's nice to see someone just enjoying something that Annie hadn't so much taken for granted as simply stopped seeing as wondrous, and instead only saw as practical or a problem to surmount. )

Strange to think they go even taller, isn't it? We had forests of trees back where I'm from that stood taller than any building in this part of the city.

( She nods out one of the windows, looking toward some of the not so distant skyscraper-esque buildings. )

Fascinating to see people constructing something so massive on their own... especially with all those windows.

Mmhmm, humans are interesting like that? I mean, we had big buildings in New Home in the Underground? But kind of restricted by the ceiling.

[Her gaze follows the direction that Annie nods in, taking in the sight.]

You'd think all those windows would like, get flown into by birds.

( As if the universe heard Mew Mew, a pigeon flutters past, turns, and bumps with a gentle thud into the window, before falling a few feet, catching itself with its wings, and flapping off again. There's a nice imprint of dusted wings and a impression of a head on the glass in front of her now.

Annie blinks. Then she has a hand at her mouth, and she's laughing. )

[Universe why?! Although Mew Mew is more stunned by what just happened than anything else, and drawn out of it by looking at Annie and... Is she laughing?]

... Ha.

[It's catching, although she might just be laughing because Annie is laughing.]

( Is there really any better time to laugh? Possibly it's also some stress relief, but the sheer absurdity of a pigeon slamming into the window right then just had her that off guard. )

I'm sorry, that was just so stupid.

( She manages to stop laughing, shaking her head and pressing one hand to her stomach. Ouch. She hasn't laughed like that in a long, long time. Over the loudspeakers, the approach of the central airship is announced, and Annie looks up, scanning around for the right "gate" out to the walkway. )

That one should be ours.

( That said, she and her bags will head in the right direction, to where the airship has docked and tied off, some passengers trickling off as they disembark. )

It's fine, sometimes you gotta laugh at the stupid stuff?

[That feels like the right thing to say, as she adjusts her hold on her own bag. Her ear flicks at the announcement of an airship and she follows Annie's gaze with her own.]

Alright.

[And she shall follow, trusting that Annie knows where to go.]

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