New Worlds

VG looked at Authenti as she said that he was a bad influence, and prepared a counter-example, "I'll have you know that I have saved many children in my time! In fact, just the other eon I--" Then he realized she was unconscious. "Hmm, do you want to help her?" VG hesitantly asked Sveltt. He was partial to leaving her to rot.

Sveltt looked completely nonplussed. "I... don't know. No. Yes...? It seems likely that we may gain something from helping her. People don't fall out of the sky every day. I have a feeling her insults are misplaced." He nudged his face under her stomach and shoved, flipping her over. "Odd-looking specimen, though." Sveltt pawed at her face once and she wrinkled her nose in disdain at being woken up.

Authenti winced and slowly opened her eyes, blinking several times. The air of confusion was leaving her more quickly, and eventually vanished altogether. "Oh, dear. It happened again. Hello, there." She shifted and stumbled to one side as she attempted to stand. "Almost broke a collarbone, I think. Okay, do I have some explaining to do, or are you like those foreign tourists who just give you an odd look and continue on their way as if nothing happened?"

VG sat and began to turn some knobs and dials on a strange metallic object. He shrugged and said, "Either way is fine with me Miss." The masked man smiled and slowly brought out a tea set, piece by piece.

Authenti stared at the odd figure as he began producing a tea set from god knows where. "Oh jeez tell me you have tea in there too I really freaking hope so anyway I was exploring the buildings and it turns out you can only reach a few floors up and then it's as if that were the end of the building, only they're obviously a lot taller than a few floors because you can see it from the outside. Anyway I climbed out of a window, up one floor, and in that window, and from there everything is just empty old rooms with stairs going up. And I got quite far up and then started hearing a machine-y humming noise and then after that I started to get confused. I think," she paused for breath, "there's something at the top of the buildings no one wants you to see. Dunno what it is, but the higher I went, the further away I felt from my own brain. By the way, I'm Authenti. Did I say this already?" She gave a maniacal laugh and then fixed her eyes on the building she'd fallen from, studying it carefully.

Sveltt, meanwhile, was talking to someone at a market stall just within the city limits. He returned when Authenti had finished her speech, carrying a new container around his neck. Some liquid inside it was making watery noises, and he bit the top with his teeth and lifted it to take a swig quickly before releasing it to hang back around his neck. "Well, whatever you just said, my name is Sveltt. I was taking VG here to Primia, and, er, here we are. What are your next plans, by the way?" he asked, turning to face VG.

"Well, now that we're in town, I will have to have a party of some sort. After that, I have to get to a place of worship." VG looked solemnly at a strange cloud formation in the distance. He snapped back to their current position with a chirp of joy, "For now though, let's find some people to party with!" VG then happily poured some tea for everyone, "Tea time!"

Authenti glanced in the general direction of the cloud formation, looking very confused about something although she wasn't quite sure what. All of a sudden, however, her ears perked up and her head snapped back round to eye up the tea she'd been offered. In one fell swoop, the tea was accepted and she was sipping quietly, eyes gently shut. "Ooh, that's lovely. Haven't had tea in a good long while. Lost my flint so that meant no heat of any kind. I'm so disorganised..." She seemed to be continuing to make idle chatter, but her voice lapsed into an incomprehensible murmur and ceased entirely whenever she took a sip of tea.

Sveltt took the teacup in his jaws, head turned sideways, and daintily set it on the ground. From there he stuck his nose in the stuff and drained the entire thing in one noiseless gulp. "You land-dwellers drink this regularly?" he queried, brow furrowed. "I do not see what is so special about i-"
This earned him a light cuff about the ear from Authenti and a warning glance. Apparently she would defend that particular beverage to the death. "Ouch. I, er... never mind. So... er... yes."