Chapter 1 - A New Face

[runawayprincess]

[ The camera is floating along, recording seemingly nothing. the hallway is empty. But then, it gently swings around the corner. Aha. There's a new face. Or, rather, a new back -- long dark hair tied at the bottom, legs in marigold, with little red ankle-high boots. Click, click, click, are her heels as she walks slolwy down the hall, until she comes to the end. She looks left, looks right, gloved fingers reaching up toward her lips in a thoguhtful pose. Then, she turns over her shoulder. Ah, now there's her face. Her gaze lifts to the floating little camera.]

It's a bit unnerving, with you following me like that you know. [yes, she's talking to the camera] I don't suppose you can tell me which way to go? [and the camera swings back and forth, as if shaking it's head 'no'. The girl frowns, and turns back to her dilema. Left.. or Right?]

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[sailorlaughter]

Well, THAT kinda depends on where you wanna get to!

[A pink pony comes merrily bouncing down the rightmost corridor, bearing a cupcake on a platter.] But you don't have to go ANYWHERE to get cupcakes, 'cause I've got one for you right here! Welcome to the Satellite!

[runawayprincess]

[She jumps back a bit. Hadn't the hall been empty just a moment ago? Well, no matter...

Really, she's not as put off by a talking, pink pony, as one might have expected her to be. she regains her composure rather quickly]

Ah... thank you. [she eyes the cupcake warily though, wondering if it's really safe] ...Do you just walk around with a cupcake, just in case? [she's genuinely curious]

[sailorlaughter]

Nopey-dopey! My Pinkie Sense told me there was a new person here, so I came to find you!

[She raises a hoof to her chin thoughtfully.]

Maybe I should start carrying emergency cupcakes...I used to stash them around Ponyville in case of cupcake emergencies, but I had to replace them too often!

[runawayprincess]

Well, if you just go hiding food like that, someone is going to find it and eat it before you know it. ...that, or it'll go stale.

[Hesitantly, she finally reaches down to take the cupcake. No sense being rude.] You said you... have a sense for these things? When new people arrive?

[sailorlaughter]

That's okay! Anypony can eat them - that's what emergency cupcakes are FOR!

You bet! And lots of other stuff, too!

[itsjustthebots]

Crow: Nope, he can't, but Cambot can't talk!

Tom: We can talk, though! I'll tell you all the best ways to go!

[runawayprincess]

Oh! [Pause] Well... alright then... which way should I go?

[itsjustthebots]

Crow: Well, which way do you wanna go?

Tom: I'm feelin' a bit of a Cheshire Cat vibe here...

[runawayprincess]

If I knew which way I wanted to go, I'd just go that way. But I can't know which way I want to go, if I don't know where each way leads.

[colorbymemory]

[Namine recognizes this new person from Zidane's stories about his home.]

Hello, Dagger. Did you just get here?

[runawayprincess]

[she looks a little startled] Yes I --... you know my name?

[colorbymemory]

[Oops, she hadn't meant to do that.]

I'm sorry. Zidane told me about some of his friends, so...

[runawayprincess]

[Oh, you've done it now, Namine. She looks like she's seen a ghost] You... you've met Zidane?

[fatedcircle]

You get used to it.

[runawayprincess]

I just feel like I'm being watched is all. [murmur Not that I'm not used to a lack of privacy]

[fatedcircle]

It could be worse.

[runawayprincess]

Of course it could. It could always be worse. [A pause] You seem like you speak from experience. Do you know which way I should go? They didn't exactly give me a map.

[verygassy]

It depends on where you want to go!

[runawayprincess]

Well, that's sort of the problem. I don't really know where I want to go. I've just gotten here.

[verygassy]

AH! Well, then maybe I can help!

You are on a giant space station orbiting around a planet, so there's not too many places to go. BUT if you ask your Cambot to have Gypsy put up a map of the satellite and where you are up on her camera for you, she will totally oblige!

[runawayprincess]

Oh! I wish they had told me about the map... I'm really not used to this kind of technology.

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[icanhastail]

[There's kind of a wordless shout, and a sudden, very loud crashing sound from Garnet's Cambot overlapping it and hiding most of the voice. Either someone knocked something heavy over or threw something heavy. Gypsy can bug him about breaking something on the Media Deck later. But the picture gets cut off before it can display whoever or whatever made that noise or any more of the voice is heard.]

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[icanhastail]

[About ten minutes after that, there's a... figure... coming down from the direction of the rest of the ship. However, this figure is covered head-to-toe in a long, hooded cloak, so it's impossible to tell who it is. ...Except for the fact that it's really short, so most people on the Satellite would be able to guess immediately, but for a new arrival? Not so much.]

Thou wished to live your life under the sky, a mindless puppet no more. Whether thou so chose to laugh, or chose to cry, you learned that no life is more insincere than that lived as a masquerade. So much consideration thou hast given it - but worry not! Cast away thy trappings of royalty, and I shall swaddle thee in a gown of pure love!

[Oh hey look he's coming closer... This might be mildly creepy, actually. But those lines, modified or not... They should be familiar to her.]

Never again will I pare from thee! Pray, my love, make me thy canary to keep forever in the cage of they bosom! Let us embark on the first ship tomorrow, before dawn can tell of our elopement!

[runawayprincess]

[She's been quite busy, what with navigating all these halls, and all the helpful, if somewhat questionable people she's been dealing with. It's the voice she hears first, and then she sees the figure. Her first instinct is to back away, because who in their right mind walks around cloaked like that, with good intentions.

But those words... They're far too familiar. She pauses. But more than the words... the voice...]

[She's quiet, hesitant... trying to keep the emotion from her voice. She's only reciting lines. Right?] ...'All my fortunes at thy foot, I lay, and I shall follow thee throughout the world.' ... are you--?

[icanhastail]

[Someone who has Drama bred into their blood at this point. The figure gets closer, raising its arms - whatever cloak he found on the Theatre Deck, it's a good one, since it's covering all of him and draping over his face as well.]

No cloud, no squall, shall hinder us! [Admittedly it's kind of difficult to keep from laughing at that line now, but he's a professional. He manages. He also manages to cut to a completely different part of the script, once again modifying the words to make them fit the situation.] I had faith! I knew thou would appear, if only I believed! As the sun lent me no ear [he'll apologize later, Ammy] I prayed instead to the twin moons! I beseeched that wondrous moonlight, to grant me my only wish!