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[ Della's face pops up looking... well, like everyone else - exhausted physically, mentally, and emotionally. She smacks her beak a bit, before speaking. ]

... So. That sucked.

[ Fully aware that's the understatement of the century, Della draws a breath, and tries again. ]

I think we could all use a nice, long breather after everything... and, gosh darn it, as Train Mom, that is my sacred duty. Hugs? Head on the lap? Head-pats telling you that you did a good job? A shoulder to cry on? Venting out all your feelings without judgement? I'm right here.

[ She slaps her chest, then slaps a small sign on on the sports/gym car. It reads

EXHAUST PILE WITHIN

But as she does this, Tidus enters the scene - Della jumps, surprised, almost forgetting his presence.

He just smiles, holding up two cups with steam coming off them, then addresses the video feed as well. ]

We're also making big batches of cocoa too. Any of you that're gonna stress bake? There's room for that room - s'long as you don't need a nap first.

[ It's a small chide though, his smile small but sympathetic. ]

I've gotten out some incense pots from the supplies - you guys who got your head thrown into a blender by that aash-- uh, that jerk, [ he takes a swift glance at Della, then back ] --it'll help you relax. Just some, but better than nothin'. I'll set some off in Momma Duck's air nest, but if you're not doing great and you think you need a pot? Tell me. Raven made a lot of good stuff for good nights sleep if you need any in the medcar, too.

... So, yes. Cocoa. Incense. Hugging. And if you want to sleep with friends for a couple nights, we got air beds and extra pillows in here. Nobody has to get up and go until they feel ready.

And if that's not enough, that's fine too. Maybe next month we do something a little more organized, if you have any suggestions - movie night, sleepover night, big eat night, whatever, I'm listening. And I'm here for you.

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And inside the sports gym, the pair can be found. They have a few airbeds blown up, but there's more that still need airing up if you pop in straight after their message. There's also a tremendous amount of pillows. If you want to help, get blowing, and make these airbeds look nice and comfy!

The transgate from the standard coach has mysteriously been moved to the sports gym's outer hallway. Who did that? But it makes it easier to bring in the cups of hot chocolate from the kitchens, and for anyone who wants to bring snacks to do so. Take a seat, remember to bring your sleeping bag and whatever else you want. Plushes, your own musical instrument to offer some de-stress medication of your own with a melody.

And there's an area where small incense pots burn away, a gentle mist rising up. It won't heal the mind completely, but it will offer it some peace. And if you're worried about nightmares, a few of Raven's sachets and teas are available.

So come get a mom hug. Come and offer hugs. Just come and get something out of the company, whatever it is. Tidus and Della - and others - will be here to give a hand.

The life you had might've been fake, but the people around you aren't.

((OOC: consider this a mingling post, where everyone is free to tag everyone else! be the comforter, the one offering comfort, both, whatever!))

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Leia was exhausted, but had to admit, this was a wonderful idea. And something that a lot of people sorely needed. Maybe they should make things like this a regular post-mission event in the future; even missions that weren't quite as... intense as the last one tended to leave everyone exhausted by the end in one form or another.

That was something to consider when she had more energy, though. At the moment, all she was up for was getting a cup of cocoa and finding a comfortable place to sit. And that would be where she stayed, mostly, soaking up and adding too the warm vibes in the room as she sipped her cocoa, though she was perfectly willing to sit and talk awhile with anyone who wanted to approach her.

She doesn't need to be the one to get a cup of anything, as when Tidus sees her come in, he walks over with the stride of someone ready to greet her, a nod and smile already on his face.

"Hey, gonna stick around? All ages welcome! Tell me if you want a bite to eat or drink, 'n' how you're feeling. We've got some of the tea or hot chocolate ready."

Were you ready for a host in the sports gym from the face and physique of someone who looked like they lived in the sports gym? Leia's likely had funnier situations in her long life.

Yes, she'd seen much funnier situations. But that didn't mean this one failed to get a smile out of her, even if it was a tired one. "In a word? Tired," she said with regards to how she felt. "And it seems like that will be the case for awhile yet. But some hot chocolate would be lovely, thank you." Normally she was more of a tea person, but at the moment, she couldn't quite say no to chocolate.

"Then get yourself comfortable," he gestures with a lilt, putting on some of a voice, over to the portion of the airbeds aired up, the pillows plentiful. "One hot chocolate coming right up!"

And with the transgate right outside the gym, Tidus doesn't have to worry about taking long, and neither will Leia before the youth returns. His hands are first empty, but as he gets close enough, he brings them together - and with a golden colouring, a cup appears in his hands; along with the sound cue-

"Ta-da."

Heheh. He finishes coming to her, lowering carefully. "Okay, now's the time not to fall over and make a mess...!"

Leia chuckled slightly and found a spot to sit, waiting for him to return with the hot chocolate. It wasn't a long wait, though she was mildly surprised to se him empty handed at first. The sudden appearance of the drink, she smiled and applauded lightly before reaching up to take it. "Thank you," she said. "That's quite a trick. Are objects teleported differently than people with these gates?"

"Huh? Oh, no-" he almost didn't understand there! "-I've got my own thing to stick stuff away in. This." With his hands empty, he can twist his right wrist, a golden band around it.

"I just stuck the drink in there so I didn't have to carry it! Those gates can send anything through them- fun, huh? You got anything like them back where you come from?"

"Ah, I see," she said. "And no we don't. I believe there have been a few experiments a long those lines, but nothing deemed safe or stable enough to be anything close to usable. The nearest thing we have would likely be hyperspace, and that's closer to void travel than teleportation; it's significantly faster, but not instantaneous. And it's considered too dangerous to use inside an atmosphere."

"Hyperspace," he repeats slowly. "So it's more of a craft that blips over to somewhere? ...outside of atmosphere."

...does the void have atmosphere? No? Tidus has little reason to ever think about space.

Leia nodded. "It's the only way spacecraft and communications are able to travel around the galaxy as easily as they do," she said. "There's also a species of space-dwelling animals call purrgil who are able to enter hyperspace naturally. Some people believe they were the inspiration behind the development of hyperdrives to begin with."

"Sound fast!" It's a simple assessment, but it's not untrue, right. Granted, he barely gets still what hyperspace is, but nevermind that. "Always wonder what my planet could do, before we lost all our technology. We used to have some pretty cool cities back in the day, but I don't know if we did anything with space!"

He leans back some, at least slouching his back. "But, I guess if we'd been talking to different planets like everyone else does, they would have noticed when we stopped going up and seeing them."

Leia nodded and took a careful sip of her cocoa, smiling slightly when she found it the perfect temperature for drinking. "Yes, a whole world suddenly losing contact with the rest of the galaxy isn't generally the sort of thing that can go unnoticed," she said. "Though if you don't mind my asking, how did your world lose its technology?"

"Mhhr," he grumbles, a wrinkle of his nose. "A stupid war, back a thousand years ago. People used magic before machines started to be built, and the people who could use magic and couldn't started bumping heads. A war broke out, and the machine side was winning, 'til the summoners left made a giant fiend that went around destroying everything."

He waves out a hand. "Long story short, a bunch of people made everyone believe the fiend was punishment for using machines, so they outlawed them, and anyone who used them were treated bad. Which were an entire group of people who didn't believe their religion."

She frowned a bit. Of course it would be something like that. Not that losing it due to some sort of natural disaster or outside force would be much better, but at least they stood less chance of creating a deliberately marginalized group like the one he described.

"It certainly sounds stupid," she said. "If those who could use magic were being discriminated against, they certainly had a right to protest, but not to create what amounts to a living weapon to destroy anyone they disagreed with. Or to discriminate against those with different beliefs than themselves."

He shakes his head, mouth pursing as his brow dips. "It was dumb, but everyone on that side figured that using any machina would mean they'd never make up for having it in the first place. It doesn't excuse them, but-" a sigh, and a quicker shake of his head. "--everyone was being lied to from the top."

Tidus pauses, before sharing on a lighter note, "But they got rid of the fiend finally a few years back, so now they don't need to worry about it anymore. And hopefully, people are being better about the Al Bhed! They know their way around technology better than anyone in Spira!"

Leia frowned around a sip of her cocoa. "That's an unfortunately familiar scenario," she said, regarding people being lied to from the top. "But I'm glad things have improved, for both the world and hopefully the Al Bhed. It sounds like they'll be more needed, but being needed doesn't always equal being respected."

"Well, people better start respecting them!" Tidus huffs, but confidently. "If they want the experts to help them out, these guys deserve it. Spira owes them a lot, that's for sure."

He says it all with full confident, certainty, seeing the loss and destruction the Al Bhed had to go through first hand. If any of the people in Spira deserved some extra sympathy, it was them - and the Ronso.

"But I heard things had been going pretty easy. 'Least... in some version of Spira?" He sighs, shaking his head a little. "Ugh, all this... being from different of the same worlds thing is weird."

"Here's hoping the people of Spira agree with you," Leia said, lifting her cocoa briefly as if in a toast. In her own experience, it could go either way; old prejudices were often difficult to get rid of. But for Tidus' sake and theirs, she hoped things would work out for the best.

The bit about different versions of worlds made her chuckle slightly though. "It certainly is that. To date, I've met relatives of mine from at least three different versions of my galaxy."

Hera is famously bad at getting enough rest, but she does tend to be able to assess when someone else could do with some. And Leia looks positively exhausted. The fact that it's showing is not generally a good sign.

She, for her part, is just regular tired, not anchor tired. Plenty fit to fetch snacks, at any rate. "I found a few options."

Leia wasn't quite as badly off as some anchors, thanks in part to the Force. But it was still significantly more than regular tired, and more persistent too. Hera was met with a tired but appreciative smile as she came bearing snacks. "Options are always good," she said, looking over the snacks Hera had selected and taking a fairly simple spice cookie.

Before eating it though, she looked around the room for a moment. "This gathering was a good idea," she said. "I think it's something a lot of people needed after everything that happened."

She nods and nibbles at one of the other cookies. It's possible she hasn't stopped to eat much herself with so many people down from anchoring. "Everyone needs the chance to reconnect on our own terms after that. The false lives muddle so much."

Leia nodded. "I suppose I should be used to it, after living in Nautilus," she said. "Though when it happened there it didn't feel so... manufactured, for lack of a better term. It could certainly be jarring when you came back to yourself, especially the first time it happened, but it was more like stepping into the shoes of another version of yourself for a week, rather than having another identity imposed on you. The memories and experiences weren't false, they just weren't your own."

"Is it really the sort of thing anyone can get used to?" It doesn't seem like it. Not if it's different every time.

But she can figure this out. "More like... Jaisyn's world compared to what you remember? Instead of something unrelated?"

"It never really got any less strange," Leia said. "But you did get used to the strangeness, after awhile. More or less, anyway." Nautilus never really ceased being a bizarre place to live. But getting comfortable with the general weirdness level was just part of acclimating.

She shook her head at Hera's semi-question. "No. It was more like..." She paused, and made a thoughtful sound considering how to explain it. "The entity could only deal in illusions, however realistic it could make them. In Nautilus, reality itself could be shaped and changed. You didn't seem to be a different version of yourself, you were that version of yourself, if only for a week. It was a complete change, not just an overlay."

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