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( 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.]

It's that or scream.

( She says, hinting at a smile. (Do both. Just do both.)

Then it's onto the airship, which probably looks like a ship in the air (???) and doesn't have the oblong shape of those from her own world. These are honestly nicer, all things told. Or more scenic. Less liable to explode? )

[Okay that gets a chuckle out of Mew Mew.

But yes, airship. Not that she has any idea what they should or should not look like, she was just getting used to seeing the sun and such things back home when she got here... So things in the sky that aren't birds?

Amazing. She might even be trying to find a spot where they can have the best view while the airship flies.]

( The real question is if they can get up that mast because Annie has no fear of heights and Mew Mew is on a mission. Climb, climb, ladies!

Regardless, they do make the journey back to the air station by the central apartments and Welcome Center safely. Somehow, despite the getting lost in the Underground Mall, they have Succeded In Their Goals. Very normally. )

[Probably not, which might get a pout out of Mew Mew when they are denied. But aside from that! A pretty normal trip.

Mew Mew happily gets down to the ground from the air station, and looks at Annie with a big old grin on her face.]

This has been a lot of fun. I've never had a friend to do this kind of stuff with! So, um, thanks Annie.

( Annie feels a little light, and looks more relaxed. She's not quite smiling, but her resting face tends toward neutral, and she's not tense, so that counts as something positive, right? )

... You're welcome, Mew Mew. I... haven't exactly had a lot of friends either.

( At least not many she can be fully honest with. There's a difference when she doesn't need to hide everything about her history, but instead can choose to do so: and the fact she doesn't imagine living where she has to kill anyone around her at any time anymore. It's freeing. )

And my closest one I was particularly bad at being a friend for.

( Hitch... probably counts. Reiner and Bertholdt are a whole different mess, and also friends. It's just a little different, for all she can't really quantify why. )

Glad to be doing better with you at least. See you again?

( Friendship Survives First Mall Encounter, and more news at eleven, because that is new for Annie. )

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