can_has_vodka | for lastvoyages: First Vision [video+spam]

[Have a spritely young bald woman in filmy clothes, perching on a scratched wooden desk and beaming at you. Her eyes are bright, bright purple and almost seem to glow slightly, and she is very pale.]

Hullo everybody! I'm Arkady, and I'm from the Island of Whitechapel. Of course, for most of you Whitechapel isn't an island, but we had a little problem with the Thames getting loose from its banks, and ever since then things have been a bit wet in London. Whitechapel has about twice as many people as this place, and we just took on a hundred more. We'll make do, though. We just need to pull together. [It's not clear whether she's speaking of Whitechapel or the Barge. Both maybe?]

I'm to be a Warden here, and if there's a need for help anywhere, do let me know! [She pauses, blinks at the screen, and then leeeeans forward and peers into it as if she can see some of you on the other side. A giggle; the purple eyes blink and she pulls back again.]

I'll be up on Deck in the gardens if anyone wants to say hello! Yay flowers!

[A few seconds later she literally appears a few feet from the Colour Garden, which she immediately crouches down to inspect.] Hello flowers!

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Perhaps you should ask after future things instead. They're fairly useful.

[It's better not to know the future, because you can't change it and you find out what it is quickly enough.] Can you tell me something else? About that man you saw? [She needs to know this.]

The big bloke?

[She closes her eyes again. Then peeks.]

He's alive...he's okay...he's...bored. Really, really bored. Cooling his heels. But not forever. And besides, this is someone who knows how to take care of himself. Himself and some kid. Or at least he thinks of that person as a kid.

[She has just met you but you've made her everything, Arkady.] He's all right?

He's all right. He's going to be all right no matter what happens, so you just focus on taking care of you. Okay?

[This is so good. Such a relief. She hadn't known what would happen to him, what he would do after he'd followed her off.

oh no she's going to start crying and she can't right now. ]

Oh luv. It'll be all right! That one's tough. Don't you worry about him, worry about being strong for yourself. And maybe some others here. I can't see that part yet, it's not set.

[She takes a breath.] I'll make it.

O'course you will. You're stronger than you credit yourself. And you're already making friends. I'll be about if you need someone. Just call my name very loud or think very very hard of me.

[...she doubts she'll take the offer, but Lua does well with the kind of loud and weird that isn't trying to kill her at the moment.] That's... kind of you.

Kindness is part of my job luv!

You think so.

People here are starved for it. A little kindness and thoughtfulness, a strawberry, a spot of tea. Besides, would you ever trust a psychic who wasn't kind?

...I wouldn't trust any. Not until now.

Don't you worry! I'll be here when needed. That's my job too!

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