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[After thinking about it for a while, Griffin decides he'll start out on the text setting. If he's here, then they could be too.]

Okay, I'm bored. Ten bucks to the person who gives me their escape pod.

[He's not expecting anything out of this besides some new perspective. If there's one thing he's learned in his many years of travel, it's that locals are always eager to correct a tourist.]

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One, no one has escape pods; two, currency is of little to no value here; three, that is a remarkably low price to pay for your freedom; four, "his or her" and not "their."

Ten bucks is the most exciting thing that came with you? :(

[ Oh, why hasn't she learned the vernacular yet. ]

You— you were given stags by the ship?

[ CAUSE BUCKS ARE TOTALLY MALE DEER AND SHE'S A MEDIEVAL PRINCESS. ]

[See? All the correcting. Even if this person't attitude makes Griffin want to shove an ice pick through his or her eye for the trouble.]

At least the Asshole Brigade made it here. Thank God. I was really worried about that.

How was I supposed to know about the genders? It's space, there could be alien genders I don't even know about.

[hi5, old timers.]

..If he was, I would like to know where he is keeping them.

[so he can go pay them a visit...]

I'm the most exciting thing that came with me. But I'm not for sale.

[ Medieval fantasy what up, what up. ]

It seems very many to be given at one time. [ A pause, sympathetically: ] And the ship is a poorly place for them, I am certain.

[... wut]

That something that happens a lot around here?

NGL, I was kinda hoping for a milkshake.

So, what makes you more exciting than the 10$?

[ Oh god, she still thinks he's got a pack of deer. Why is this happening. ]

The ship gives all manner of things. Clothes, weapons, and oftentimes animals. But— [ Um. ] —this is precedent, to my knowledge.

Ten bucks all you got?

[Sure there aren't any escape pods. But that doesn't mean he can't fuck with someone today.]

He means money, not deer. A 'buck' is an American colloquialism for a dollar.

[representing!!]

There is a garden and a.. jungle. [that.. is what they called it. right?] But it is not a forest.

[...pause.]

Surely they could not all have fit inside those lockers. [oh no those poor bucks.]

A lot of things.

[But first things first, she just brought something much more important to his attention.]

No milkshakes? That mean it's all that powdered moon food stuff?

There aren't any. Not that we can access, anyway. If there were, no one would be here.

Money—? [ Oh god, now she feels completely silly, as evidenced by the bright flush to her cheeks and the way her chin dips down in embarrassment. How could I be so foolish? ] And what— is an American?

[Because Griffin finds new information more important than correcting old timey terms.]

Weapons?

I packed light.

What else you want?

[Alex smirks, giving a bit of a shrug.]

I dunno. What else you got?

I have been to the garden many times in the past and have long since become acquainted with its paths. Though it is not fit for a young maid to traverse the deeper wilds alone and so they remain strange to me and frightening.

I do not think they would be comforted by the— 'jungle'. Though dirt beneath their feet is better than metal, and though there is no sky, the light is warmer there. Less cold.

[ And now Alayne frowns. ] Perhaps they were simply left free to roam the halls of holding— [ Um. ] That is how the direwolves were found, and the rooks.

[ She's actually not surprised that this would be what he focuses on. ]

Swords, knives, blades of different kinds. A crossbow, once. [ Then, she remembers: ] A gun.

An American is a citizen - or a native, I suppose - of the United States of America. It's a country, with the US Dollar being their currency. Though this man has an English accent, so I'm assuming he's either picked up 'buck' through media or through travel.

[A pause, and then, in an attempt to reassure her against that flush in her cheeks,]

You weren't to know, Alayne. We all stumble across things we're ignorant of, here.

wtf why would anyone give u an escape pod id use it right away, keep ur money

I am at home in nature as others are in cities, yet I have passed them and also find that they are.. strange. Unnatural, if nature can be so called; and empty, but for the insects.

Not at all fit for such creatures. Though I worry more for what they would have for sustenance, were they to dwell in such a place.

[musing silently, very large halls.. or very small deer. then picking up slightly.] You have-- wolves? And crows?

[crows being a.. westron equivalent of 'rooks'. courtesy of nanite translation.]

[ She nods, obediently, as she listens (Do you see where the septas taught her well, Josias? Do you see her father's hand upon her, making her to be a dutiful daughter?) though she continues to look chastised by her own ignorance. Alayne commits what he says to memory so as to never make the same mistake again. ]

—you do not think me foolish?

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