Ladybuggin' Out

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Who| Marinette and YOU
What| Marinette exploring Legion World after waking up
Where| All around Legion World, you can pick a location
When| After Whistling in the Dark plot
Warnings/Notes| N/A

Marinette had been shown around the ship already but that was when she was still in the wide-eyed stages of denial one found themselves in when they were spirited to another universe. She'd gone along with it, listened to the descriptions of different places, talked to them about that whole swearing an oath thing and had done it all pretty much on automatic.

Just because she was a superhero back home didn't mean she was prepared for all this so she'd spent her days in the Medbay and her days right after in a quiet state of shock, one that had apparently been mistaken for calm because of her capacity to still talk to people despite it.

It was only now after she was free to wander around alone that she started to come out of it a little, looking at everything with new eyes the second time.

"Wooow."

She had no one to really say it to but she was used to Tikki always being with her so thinking out loud was a force of habit.

"Woooooow."

That was really all she could say as she wandered from place to place and from thing to scientific-looking...thing. She put her hands on her cheeks and stared and let out a "woooow" at no one, and then walked onto the next thing. Whether it was the threshold gate hub, or the science labs, or the many habitats that had been built for everyone on board -- including one that had the Champ De Mars and the entire Eiffel Tower for her -- all she could do was stare wide-eyed and "woooow" at herself.

And maybe touch things she probably shouldn't touch. In a few places she even smushed her face against windows to look at the view of Earth or space outside.

"Woooooooow!"

People might possibly notice the new girl in any number of places and given all the 'wow'ing and the flight ring on her finger she was very obviously new.

Comments

[lightcatcher]

The habitat that she has wandered into consists mostly of a lightly forested area that seems very peaceful. The only exception is a large shed in a small clearing. The light is strange, both natural and very clearly not emanating from a sun or moon - it rather seems to come from one of the walls and to be a mingling of silver and golden light, as if someone had hid both sun and moon behind that wall.

Someone is cooking inside the shed or perhaps behind it - a quite delicious scent is wafting towards the entrance of the habitat.

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Marinette had really been enjoying the forest as she'd quietly walked through it. There were plenty of green places in Paris but none that really gave the illusion that you were somewhere untamed and wild. The city was forever creeping in at the edges -- and that was fine! She loved her city.

But it was still a nice change. She felt like she'd stepped into the pages of a book of fairy tales.

Then she saw the shed and the light. She had to take a look at that. How could she not? Her life pretty much had her trained to poke her nose into strange things, if only because strange things possibly meant akumatized people wreaking havoc that she had to stop.

Also, that food smelled really good! She wasn't someone that was easily tempted by the smell of good food -- that was what happened when the house you grew up in was over your parents' bakery -- but it was good enough for her to want to peak around and see what was cooking.

But was she even supposed to be here? These places were supposed to be habitats that belonged to people, just like one had been designed for her. Did that mean she was trespassing?

It can't hurt to take a look, right? she almost said the words aloud before remembering that Tikki wasn't with her. Just one teeny, tiny peek...

She crept over very slowly and carefully, pressing against the wall of the shed and peeking around to see what was there. If it seemed like it was a situation she wouldn't be welcome in, she planned on just leaving before she was seen.

[lightcatcher]

Inside, the shed is a forge for the most part, or rather a workshop that also has a forge in it. In a corner, a bed can be spotted, and a small kitchenette is occupied by a tall man with long, dark hair, dressed in simple pants and a tunic, currently cooking up something.

There is nothing hostile about the environment, but as the only occupant is busy with something else and hasn't noticed her yet, he isn't inviting her inside, either.

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Now that was strange. Why would the man want to live in a shack in the middle of the habitats instead of in the crew quarters where you could have a TV?

It was nice out here though, she had to give it that.

It felt wrong to spy on the man, or sneak up on him, so she decided that it was best to maybe leave -- but then she noticed something that made her eyes pop open wide.

Wait, did he have pointed ears? Like an elf?

She leaned a little more around the wall she was pressed against to try to get a closer peek and that was when she lost her balance and flopped down pretty noisily to the ground, half of her body visible to Feanor.

"Aaaoomph!" was the noise she made and then she stared up at him with wide eyes, wincing.

"Um. Hiii?"

She could practically hear her best friend Alya laughing at her for being ridiculous.