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I can find my way around

CHARACTERS: Rory [OPEN TO ALL]
LOCATION: Anywhere!
WARNINGS: nada
SUMMARY: Rory is taking a break from the MedBay and is doing a bit of exploring on his own

He had taken to spending a lot of his time in the MedBay reading up on the technology at hand and looking after those few who came in. It was strange how he would look up and realize he'd been in the same position for a day or more. True, he'd gotten used to this plastic body, but he still thought like human Rory and worried a bit at how easy it was for him to just be. Today he wasn't going to worry.

Stepping out of the MedBay he headed in a random direction and decided to explore the ship a bit. He wasn't as adventurous as the Doctor or Amy, but there was still a little boy inside him pointing out that he was on a REAL spaceship and all he'd been doing was reading. Giving into that voice he had decided to give in and go for a walk.

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Oh, he knew this gesture!

Have a brofist. Courtesy of America.

"Asato." A pause before he remembered he should introduce himself like humans do, first and last name. "Asato Kayason." It was a fabricated name given to him because having just a first name seemed silly, and having a name that identified him as being a member of his tribe was even sillier. He didn't really understand it, but if it helped him get along with people, then he couldn't complain.

"I was doing the same."

There was an awkward moment of confusion as Rory tried to brofist. He gave a slightly nervous laugh when he finally managed the greeting and then stuck his hands in his pockets.

"Well, I suppose we can explore together. I've been a bit holed up in the MedBay and decided I needed to stretch my legs before they fell off."

"Are you sick?" he asked the question straight out. "Though I guess you could work there too. It must be hard work."

He nodded a bit. Exploring was the name of the game now, if they wanted to find any way to pass the time and not die of boredom. The ship seemed to have plenty to offer to those who went out an looked.

"Which way were you going?"

"No, I work there." Rory shrugged. "It's not so bad. No one's really been hurt too much which is good, but it makes for a rather boring stay."

He couldn't keep his eyes from roaming over the other man. Forcing himself to look around the corridor he gave another shrug. "Just walking. Looking really. I haven't actually taken to exploring like some, so I'm a bit behind on where things are."

"I'd much rather have it be boring than have people being hurt."

He either doesn't notice Rory staring at him, or he does and just doesn't mind it. It's not like he really has anything to hide.

"Me too. I've just seen the gardens. I haven't explored much in the rest of the ship. You could get lost. But we could go together. It seems more safe."

"That's very true." Rory turns back and raises his eyebrows. "Gardens? I didn't realize there were gardens on the ship."

"There are. They're pretty big, too. I guess it's to give everyone clean air to breathe." He nods down a long hallway leading to one of the lifts.

"They're in that direction if you ever decide to go and look."

He looks back, but doesn't change course. "Can I ask where you're headed?"

"I'm not sure. I was going to go look just a little farther than where I turned back last time." He thinks for a moment about how far that was be.

"Past the swimming hall, then."

"There's a pool?" He didn't really think about the amenities that were probably on board. It was nice that there were some distraction; made the cage seem a lot more gilded.

Rory grins a bit. "Mind if I join you then? Don't really fancy walking around alone."

"No. You can go ahead." He doesn't mind company, not if that company is freely offered. "It's difficult to find your way alone sometimes. Anyway, I was going in this direction."

He begins to walk down the corridors again, in the direction of this deck's swimming hall, beyond which he had not yet ventured.

Rory's always been one to like company, small bits of company, but so long as he wasn't completely alone he was fine.

He can't help side-eyeing the young man. "So, where are you from?"

"Kira," he answers plainly. "In Sisa. I think it's on a place other people call Earth, but I'm not sure about that."

There were traces of human life on Sisa, after all; remnants of skyscrapers in their capital city, Ransen, and a wealth of books that had been left behind by mankind, written in a language the Ribika could not understand.

That was...interesting. Rory scratched his head and grinned. "I'm from Earth. Uh, 2010, well, that's when I'm suppose to be from. It's all a bit complicated."

"I don't know the year, or how it compares to yours. But it seems to be Earth. It's the place where humans were once--I think. We call them two-cane."

But now he knows better.

"So, there aren't any humans anymore in your universe?" That was strange and reminded him too much that something odd was happening back home.

"Yeah. Not anymore. They haven't been around for a long time."

What made them disappear, he has no idea. He didn't even know they were anything other than mythical beings until he was pulled from his home world.

Rory forces himself to look ahead and not at Asato's ears. Amy probably would have poked and prodded the poor guy by now, but Rory was not going to let his curiosity rule him.

"I've never thought about humans being extinct. I figure it will happen someday, but knowing about it is just odd."

"We have a belief in Sisa, that when a Ribika dies, they become a human."

It's the basis of much of their creation myth, actually. "We know they existed, because we have their books."

"Like reincarnation." He pauses and looks over. "You don't, uh, worship humans, do you?"

"In a different world."

He pauses to consider that question, then nods. "I guess, in a way, we do. We believe in a god called Two Cane, who rules over the humans, and Ribika can be reborn as humans in his wold. It's supposed to be wonderful there."

He keeps walking and thinks on this. It isn't his place to point out reality, but he does hope Asato doesn't view the humans on this ship as superior to him.

"We have religion too. Lots of religions in fact." Okay, that was sort of lame.

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