1st Tail

[whatthefoxsay]

[Kira sits under the camera, grinning a bit in expectation. She takes a deep breath as she looks around, and then addresses her audience, such as it is.]

Okay, so after getting settled in the first thing I did was go up on the deck. It's funny how you see movies and look at pictures in books, but it's totally true that nothing can prepare you for how vast space actually is. It seems like people have two reactions to it, either they're completely overwhelmed by it, like in a bad 'I can't take this' way, or they think it's amazing.

[She leans forward earnestly.]

It's amaaaaazing!

[She bounces in her chair, though gradually she slows down, and settles into a more serious expression.]

I haven't been assigned an inmate yet, and to be honest, I'm nervous. I mean, I'm supposed to help them, right? But what if I can't? What if they don't want to be helped? What if I have to - I don't know, I'm not particularly mean or anything. But what if I have to be?

[Her mouth scrunches up a little.]

I'll figure this out. I have to.

[Maybe indicating she has doubts or worries about her performance as a warden is a mistake, but well, live and learn, little kitsune.]

Comments

[whatthefoxsay]

I've heard that.

[She doesn't necessarily believe you're one of them, Doc.]

I didn't catch your name?

[changeitroundsome]

Doctor Facilier, at your most humble service.

[whatthefoxsay]

[Suffice to say, wary kitsune is wary.]

What are you a doctor of?

[changeitroundsome]

I get that question a lot. I'm a bokor, darlin'. A witch doctor.

[whatthefoxsay]

A practitioner of voudoun.

[She says it with a faint French accent. If she isn't fluent, she at least knows how to pronounce it properly.]

Do you follow an orisha? Am I pronouncing it correctly?

[changeitroundsome]

Voodoo. I practise the Louisiana sort. They share the same roots, but the branches are different.

So no, I don;t follow an orisha. But I gotta admit, I'm impressed ya'll got an idea of what you're taking about.

[whatthefoxsay]

I like reading about the strange and unusual.

[She vaguely remembers a quote from a movie she's seen, adding kiddingly,]

I myself am strange and unusual.

[changeitroundsome]

I did notice, but I thought I'd be polite about it. Can't say I've seen anything like you before.

[whatthefoxsay]

[While it's true Facilier creeps her out, he's been nothing but courteous, and she has received no additional warnings about him. The others are out of their respective closets so to speak, so there's no reason not to share.]

I'm a kitsune. Specifically a thunder kitsune.

[changeitroundsome]

[He's very careful to appear nothing but friendly and hospitable. It's how to get people on your side, after all.]

Ahh, I think I cam across a book with that word in before. I take it you got power over thunder, then?

[whatthefoxsay]

Not quite. It's...a bit hard to explain and doesn't exactly line up with the traditional abilities you'd expect.

[changeitroundsome]

I've only been here a month, and I can already believe that. This place looks like a magnet for unusual folk.

[whatthefoxsay]

I guess unusual folk are the ones who need the sort of help that the Barge provides.

[changeitroundsome]

Suppose it is. I'm sure most of the unusual sort of folk here wouldn't be moved to redemption without being trapped in a ship floating through space.