Lunar Boot Camp

[Brian]

Makoto giggles quietly, and offers a curtsy. "I'm Makoto de la Joviana!" she introduces herself. She is currently wearing a simple cream/green gown and has long brown hair done up in a pony-tail, tied up with a gold and jade hair ornament, and matching gold and jade earrings. The thing that sticks out about her, however, is that she's a bit... tall. Not quite gangly, or poorly proportioned, but... tall.

Humming softly, she takes a few items of baggage. "We should probably get Lady Luna to the infirmary to get her checked up anyway, so it's no problem at all." Glancing between Rika, who might not be crazy and the granny, she asks, "Have you been here before? I'd never seen a Mau, so... um... are there many of them here?"

[Ebiris]

Rei hefts Vir on her back, bearing his weight with some difficulty, but managing. She smiles up at Makoto, silently cursing the bad first impression she must be making in such a state, but swearing to make it up to the girl when she can be properly introduced to Princess Rei instead of Rika the peasant girl...

"I've never seen a Mau before except in pictures," she says, "As far as I know, they're very rare, but Lady Luna acts as an advisor to Queen Serenity herself. I recognised her by the crescent moon marking."

After a moment, something else clicks. "De la Joviana? As in, the royal family of Jupiter?"

[Brian]

Makoto winces slightly. "Um, well.... Yes," she admits. "It's a bit of a sprawling family, with all of those moons to spread out on, though." Shaking her head, she turns her attention to Rika. "I'd never even head of Mau except in old playtime stories, in the Jovian system."

[Corwin]

"Me? Do menial labor when fit teenagers are around?" Genkai snorts. "Perish the thought!"

[Ebiris]

Rei curses the cruel fates. She had never met another princess from one of the other worlds before, and now that she finally does, instead of dealing with an equal, she has to play the part of the peasant... The universe was certainly conspiring against her lately. And coupled with Luna's presence, this Makoto was likely to be Sailot Jupiter... hopefully her 'disguise' of being covered in white crap would hold out long enough, since she certainly didn't want one of her future team-mates seeing her like this. Especially such a... well formed, team-mate.

With a supreme effort, Rei shakes off the burgeoning fantasy. This is not the time or place. Instead, she bows as much as possible while bearing Vir. "It's an honour for this humble one to meet you, your majesty," she greets the other girl formally.

"I'm a bit of a history buff, so I've heard about the Mau in a few books I've read. I don't know if you get the same news we do on Mars, but I've also heard Lady Luna mentioned from time to time when discussing current events from the Moon Kingdom, although the fact that she is a Mau does tend to be underplayed for some reason."

Rei ignores Genkai, but her expression falls as she realises that she can't force the evil old woman to do anything, her own burden is more than she is comfortable with, and there is no way she is willing to ask Princess Makoto to carry any more...

[Brian]

Makoto nods graciously at Rika's bow. "Well, I will admit... most of the news goes to Metis first," Makoto muses. "But I don't remember hearing as much as you have about it."

Makoto smiles encouragingly at Rika. "What's it like on Mars? Lady Luna said that the Princess of Mars was quite lovely... she used a word... what was it now...." Makoto looks thoughtful. "Precocious! That's the word. Still, I'd like to meet her." Makoto sighs wistfully.

[Ebiris]

Rei twitches a little. Admittedly, precocious is a lot nicer than some of the things she's been called, but still... darn cat!

Struggling to pick up a few more suitcases without dropping Vir, Rei formulates a reply for Makoto. "Mars is a beautiful world... I suppose I can't really compare since this is my first time travelling further than the asteroid belt, and the Moon seems nice enough, but Mars... well, it's home..." Rei has a wistful smile as she speaks, imagining carefree days sailing along the canals with some beautiful girl or another (she couldn't really remember any specific girl - they all tended to blur together after a while).

Frowning slightly, Rei tries to come up with an answer to Makoto's question about the Princess without giving too much away, and fails completely. "I've never met the Princess, so I doubt I could tell you much about her... but I'm sure you'll meet her soon!"

[Corwin]

Eiko shows up, holding all of her and Makoto's baggage with one hand rather easily, Luna carried in the crook of her free arm. "Need help?" she asks simply, glancing at the two girls and Genkai.

[Ebiris]

"Yes please," Rei smiles gratefully at Eiko, taking the opportunity to check her out as well as she steps away from the few remaining suitcases which Genkai could have easily carried if she wasn't such an evil old bint.

[Corwin]

Eiko seems to notice the stare, and smirks, stretching out before picking up more suitcases, handing Luna to Makoto.

[Ebiris]

Rei smiles ever so slightly at Eiko. Now things are looking up... she thinks, though still bitter over the fact that in her current condition she can't actually act on any of her impulses...

With a small sigh, she starts heading towards the terminal with her burden. "Well, we'd best get Mister Vir and Lady Luna to some medical facilities."

As she walks, Rei takes note of the other spacecraft in the Spaceport, trying to pick out the most impressive one so she can later claim she arrived on that...

[Brian]

"Thank you, Eiko-chan," Makoto chirps, patting the unconsious Luna comfortingly. "Poor ki... er... Mau."

"Well, I imagine that the Princess of Mars must be quite impressive, but could you tell me anything about yourself, Rika?"

[Ebiris]

"Ah, me?" Rei gasps in a small voice at Makoto's question, again trying to come up with an answer that won't give too much away.

"Well..." she hesitantly begins, "My family owns a... er... skiing resort on Olympus Mons..." Which was true enough, in fact they owned several. "I, uh... well, I'm not a very interesting person! I'm sure you don't want to be bored by listening to me prattle on..."

Searching for a quick subject change before she can be pressed further, Rei takes the obvious opening. "Why don't you tell me about yourself, Princess Makoto? And you, Lady Eiko? I'm sure you both must have much more interesting lives than I do..."

Plus, I can find out a bit more about you for later on... Rei thinks with a lascvicious grin starting to creep across her filth covered face.

[Brian]

"Me?" Makoto asks, eyeing Rika suspiciously. "Well, I suppose," she murmurs, relaxing when she considers that it's probably more interesting to talk about a Princess from across the solar system than it is to talk about one from the same planet. "Um... I was born on Metis, which is the capital of the Jovian system.

"I... moved to Callisto a few years ago, which is where I met Eiko-chan. Callisto's a nice place, but just recently they gave me a palace on Io and asked me to renovate."

Makoto pauses, and realizes that she's far too used to asking about her political well-being instead of her actual hobbies. "Er... I like to cook," she ekes out, embarrased. "I like to read, and I think martial arts are really neat-- to watch," she catches herself. A proper princess is too graceful to resort to brawling... so her parents insisted, anyway. "Um... I suppose I'm very boring, really."

[Ebiris]

"Boring, not at all!" Rei replies, perhaps a touch too eagerly.

"I'm not a very good cook myself... I can manage, but nothing special..." Besides, normally the servants handle it. "But you say you like martial arts? That's great! I love that too! Some of the ancient Martian forms are very graceful, but my parents always say a Pri-" Rei catches herself and covers her mouth, mortified at her near slip.