[I/OOC] Incidental Bits

[Black Aeronaut]

A quick scenelet. Arc 2, after the Sol system gets the rosette of "theme Earths":

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The shuttlecraft dropped me off in an open meadow a couple of hours' walk from the nearest city - a walled city, from what we saw on the approach. It was just me - there's too few of us and too many places to go look at for us to be in groups, and I have experience surviving even in a magic-rich environment. My only real concern was whether the Starfleet Universal Translator in my earpiece would work. I started walking.

An hour later, I sat down on a rock  beside the road, grabbed my packed lunch, and dug in. Until I was interrupted a few minutes later. "Excuse me..." Looking up, I turned to see a petite - and cute - girl wearing clerical robes, which made me a bit homesick. It looked like she'd come from the city I was walking toward. "I know that you don't know me, but my god Mylee said I'm to adventure with you now. My name is Anna, and Mylee told me in a revelation that the Hero I'm supposed to serve would appear from the sky, so when we saw your flying box land and let you out, I knew you were the one I was to serve during your adventures."

Aw, crap. And she even pronounced "hero" with a capital H. Well, at least now I knew which story this part of this world was from, and maybe she was friendly. On the other hand, another girl in my life. Just my luck.

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Spoiler

For those who don't recognize Anna, she's a anime-only background character from Rune Soldier Louie. And mister "just my luck" who misses home when he sees a petite cleric is obviously Touma.

Hmmmmm... I just might actually use this in a real story, once we finally get this far in the Metacontinuity.

Pffft.  Once Ben hears about this, he's gonna want to buy Touma a drink at Callahan's.  (Yes, he's under age, but Ben figures they're more or less making the rules now, and he's gonna be taking Touma home afterwards, and DAMMIT, POOR GUY NEEDS A DRINK.)