（ must be lonely. she doesn't say it. she knows a sore spot when she hears one, too. she wrings a bit of dirty water out of one (kinda greasy, kinda dirty) hank of hair and then: ）
Uh... well, Rocket's a cool name. Like space ships, right? Fucking love space.
（ local child desperately searching for common ground. clearly: the answer is space. it doesn't even occur to her 'rocket' could just be a word in another language. she just hears rocket and thinks ship. ）
Like I guess the magic here's cool or whatever, but if I was going to get sucked up by some fucking interdimensional roomba and dumped out somewhere else that's not my own backyard, why couldn't it have been in space?
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（ must be lonely. she doesn't say it. she knows a sore spot when she hears one, too. she wrings a bit of dirty water out of one (kinda greasy, kinda dirty) hank of hair and then: ）
Uh... well, Rocket's a cool name. Like space ships, right? Fucking love space.
（ local child desperately searching for common ground. clearly: the answer is space. it doesn't even occur to her 'rocket' could just be a word in another language. she just hears rocket and thinks ship. ）
Like I guess the magic here's cool or whatever, but if I was going to get sucked up by some fucking interdimensional roomba and dumped out somewhere else that's not my own backyard, why couldn't it have been in space?