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( Jingyi flops back to be sitting on a bed (large! well, double versus the twins of the cabins, so anyone who's in the doubles carriage is already used to this, lucky buds. He gives the ICP a look after sighing, holding up his hands in a stopping gesture. He keeps his voice lower since, well, this talks into cabins and some people are likely asleep, but: )

Okay, so, right. How do people sleep alone? It's so quiet! The big bed's nice, but I'm waking myself up here.

( He doesn't do pleading as his best look, but here, have a twenty-one year old making a Beseeching Expression to the people awake enough to have noticed the ICP up and talking. )

Anyone up for a four night sleepover or something? Elidibuses need not apply.

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... I'm happy for company, but if you'll want awake company, I'm... going to promise I will fall asleep on you. Either literally or figuratively?

( He doesn't mind, but that's kind of the thing, he doesn't mind talking! He just also knows he's tired and needs to rest and he will end up falling asleep as soon as he's comfortable. )

[Quatre chuckled softly at Jingyi’s comment] That’s fine. Getting sleep is always good thing to do so I don’t mind if one or both of us falls asleep.

[And he didn’t seem concerned about the possibility of him falling asleep on him literally]

Oh, good, then wear your sleepclothes, saves you from waking up in what you wore the day before just in case.

( he falls asleep. jingyi definitely knows he himself will, it's just gonna happen. )

I will do that. I’ll get changed and come right over if that’s okay with you.

[ He did agree. It was better to not wake up in the clothes that you had been wearing all day. Not only did day clothes get wrinkled that way, but there was always something that made the next day feel a little off.

And if Jingyi agreed, he’d go back to his cabin to change and then head to find Jingyi ]

Yeah, that's fine.

( Having agreed, he's not so concerned, talking with a few others but ultimately with his ICP shut down from broadcasting and once more looking through for... music? Well, no, he managed to trip into the media archives and now there's more soothing music playing over landscapes of far off worlds. It's pretty, and sort of lulling in an unexpected way, and he's blinking out of his zone out watching it when Quatre finds his room.

He turns his head to blink at the door, lifting his hand: )

One moment, please!

( Palm flat and held out at the door, Jingyi envisioning the telekinetic shield he wants to form over the surface of his palm and then... pushing. It's small refinement of something that isn't wind, that feels like qi but isn't quite qi used in a familiar way like with his sword being sent from him to fight, and there! The door opens, his hand lowering, while he's perched in lotus position on the bed itself. )

[ Quatre waited patiently at the door, hearing the music just on the other side of the door and finding it quite soothing as well. Seems that the train had good taste in music sometimes. Quatre would definitely agree with that.

Being the polite boy that he was, he didn’t immediately go to open the door when arrived, waiting for Jingyi to come and open it. Well… he definitely opened it, but not the way that Quatre expected. He saw that it opened and Jingyi was still sitting a little further away so Quatre would definitely be glancing to the side to see if there was someone there who had opened it. He was aware there were others with abilities here, but sometime it still caught him off guard.

Seeing that there was no one there, he turned back to Jingyi and smiled ]

Good evening. I don’t think I introduced myself before. I’m Quatre Raberba Winner.

( Jingyi doesn't hide the look of amusement on his face after Quatre tries to find who isn't there, but he does wave a hand; )

Same here, and well met, Quatre Rabera Winner. I'm Lan Jingyi, of Gusu Lan.

( No use of his milkname, and by the heavens, there never will be. Letting his hands settle back in his lap, he inclines his head toward the bed, and all of this would look far more saucy if he didn't also seem entirely too laid back about it. )

What preference do you have in how you're addressed? I'm assuming at least part of your name is a reference to a family name... is it?

( He's met too many people with one name only here, it's Disconcerting. Perhaps Quatre... is more normal..................... than all these one name people he's friends with... )

[ It’s fine. He’s still getting used to the idea that people have abilities like this. Even though he sees them on missions, he doesn’t see it so much in every day life so it took him off guard. But he wasn’t at all offended by the amusement, find it rather amusing as well ]

Nice to meet you too, Lan Jingyi.

[ Since he helped out on the Blue Team a few times, he was well aware that ‘Lan’ was likely his surname, given that the team leader also had the same name and was willing to explain that ‘Lan’ was his family name if someone asked.

Quatre finally did enter the room now and came over to the bed, sitting down on it with a smile ]

Just Quatre is fine. Winner is my family’s name.

Is that Winner as in one who is victorious, or is a homophone for something else, in your language?

( Is it a translation thing, he wants to ask, because sometimes he's run into oddities like that. It's a true question, nothing snide, Jingyi asking with a lift of his brow. )

[ Quatre chuckled at the question ]

Yes, it is the same as one who is victorious. Perhaps, many years ago, before my family went to space, a variation meant something else, but now it is the same.

... Your whole family went into space?

... On a ship? Or...

( help this has only barely been covered by last mission having that whole bogus metal town in space affair! )

What exactly does it mean to have gone to space?

[ Quatre nodded his head in response to that question ]

In my world, we have colonies in space. They are basically large spaceships that orbit the Earth at specific points, called Lagrange points. Long complex science explanation made short, those are points where the colonies will orbit without eventually sinking closer to Earth.

But my family traveled to space when the colonies were originally being built and we’ve been living on the colonies ever since. I had never seen Earth except from a distance until recently.

What, you haven't seen dirt before?

( earth............................... is not a name he knows for a world. and no one's talked about earth to him before. so. hello, quatre, see his look of incredible disbelief over what amounts to a translation error. )

No... I have.

[ He paused for a moment to figure out how to phrase it ]

So, the planets like the ones we visit on our missions The planet that I am from and the one you are likely from too is called Earth. Not just the ground, but the planet itself. I had seen dirt, but I had never been to the planet itself.

... Why assume the whole of a world has the same name?

( He's more baffled on that point, now that the soil vs Name thing is cleared up. )

It is true. Other countries might have different names for the planet, but the actual origin of the name is from a language on my world called “German”. The name of the planet is derived from the word “erde” which does in fact mean “the ground”. In fact, a lot of other languages on my world do use “ground” as their word for planet. So, in a sense, the whole world is “the ground.”

But that also doesn’t mean that the whole planet has the same name. My ancestors are from a portion of the Earth referred to as Arabia. But Arabia is only a small portion of the planet and there are many other countries.

[ Sorry… he knows a bit too much on history, geographic, and science ]

... Yeah so what did your ancestors call the whole world? Probably not Arabia, right?

Honestly, I’m not sure what the ancient name would have been. Most people were not so well traveled in older days, and they didn’t know a lot about the rest of the world so the concept of referring to the entire planet and not just neighboring kingdoms would be strange. Now-a-days, it would be called al’ard.

I guess what I really mean is what word is used to say world, then? Is that al'lard?

[ Quatre nodded ]

If I were to talk someone from that area today, I would use al’ard to refer to the planet.

So you're from Al'ard, also called Earth. Where I'm from, we'd say the whole is Tianxia.

( 'all under heaven.' )

‘Tianxia’… That is a nice name. I like it. It is interesting to hear what other cultures call the planet.

Mm, it's nice hearing the different words. 'Cause I think our worlds are more different than people think, even when they seem so familiar... but the echoes of familiar things, those are nice too.

[ He nodded ]

So far, there haven't been many who can define my world the way I do, and even then it is not the same thing. But I like hearing about the other worlds. My world has changed so much being so heavily based in technology.

[ Not that he was complaining about his world. It was familiar and he had loved having a Gundam except for the fact of having to fight with it, but there was something surprising hearing about worlds that could essentially be his world's past ]

Does that mean you've got flying swords too? Just based on technology instead of cultivation?

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