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[Ruby's in the kitchen, nursing a cup of coffee. She looks tired, though not overly so. Adapting to life on board isn't going all that great for her - but thank whatever deity you want to insert here for coffee, because Ruby is just going to survive on that. Hey, Grenny pestered her with early morning diner shifts often enough, and Ruby isn't ashamed to admit that she's addicted. Doesn't mean she's gonna kick the habit anytime soon. She smiles at the camera, friendly as always.]

Hey guys. Ruby here, for those I haven't met yet. Pleasure to meet you, not pleased about the weird circumstances, you know how it goes.

Two things... first of all. I gather I'm not the only one hallucinating. Or... having dreams. Memories. I'm not awake enough to puzzle that out. Is this some sort of... group hallucination, and what's so interesting about two people talking about how hot some prisoner is, anyway? Do I need to be concerned? Do I need to... I don't know, do anything about this, report it to anyone?

[She rubs a face down her hands, smiles, because all this sounds insane, but it seems to be common practice here.]

Second thing... well. I was wondering. I'll admit, I'm not the brightest bulb to ever light the room. So... we're in space. And I was just wondering, if you were. Say. Sensitive to the moon.

[Yeah, this is harder than she'd thought. Crap. Ruby takes a long sip of her coffee, a little too hot for comfort, but the burn is quite welcome right now. She can't exactly go saying that she's a werewolf and very likely to kill anything that moves in front of her during three months a night, because she doesn't think she'll be in control of the wolf after not transforming for a whooping 28 years, plus she doesn't have the magical cloak that'll prevent the transformation - yeah, that's not gonna get her pushed out of an air lock at all. She's had enough angry mobs after her in her own time.]

Are we in any way affected by moon cycles, given that we... well. Have no... moon of our own?

[Yeah, it sounds even more stupid when she says it out loud, but does the truth of her little problem really sound any less stupid?]

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[Oh, you poor summer child, just you wait. Give her a month and she'll adress everyone she finds remotely charming with nicknames. Just you wait.]

I try not to hurt others... but I wouldn't exactly shed a tear, y'know? But yeah, it seems I managed to stumble into some folks who can help... so weird, honestly, I'm more used to... like... pitchforks and torches and angry mobs.

[ there's a whole lot he could talk about here, and he'll definitely come back to the gold thing, but— ]

Sorry, what year are you from, exactly?

[ because that's a very modern look for pitchforks and torches. ]

Uhm.

[Yeah.

So that was smooth.

Ruby sighs a little, pushes her fingers through her hair, and finally shrugs.]

Super long story. I lived somewhere else and then I lived in the modern world, if you wanna hear the short version of it.

[Can't be the craziest thing he's heard on this ship.

Right?]

[ actually, not at all the craziest thing he's heard on this ship. ]

As in you've been subject to dimensional abduction before?

[ you might lose him at the fairytale part. ]

[Yeah, the fairytale part is where she loses most people. Hell, it's where she loses herself if she thinks too hard about the fact that to most people, she's nothing more than a fairy tale.

A very inaccurate one, no less!

But then, that applies to them all, go figure.]

Yep. Was plucked right out of my best friends' kingdom and deposited in a small town in Maine, of all places. All of us were, and we didn't remember until recently. Which is why the whole moon thing... is kind of only now becoming a problem.

Kingdom? Are we talking medieval, or... ? [ because have you met the starks. ]

And what do you mean by recently? Where I come from, it's either a problem or it's not — it doesn't really care if you manage to forget about it.

I'm talking medieval with magic. Like... we got hit with a curse, put in the modern world, and were normal humans until the curse broke. We remembered everything - and got all the non-human stuff like magic and werewolves back.

[Ruby smiles apologetically.]

It sounds insane, I know.

[ josh isn't particularly surprised by that answer. he knew magic would factor in somehow, thanks to gold and the whole werewolf issue, but the information on the curse is new. ] Not the most insane thing I've heard, actually.

[ there's an obvious hesitation before he continues, and the abrupt shift in topic probably makes it clear why. ]

It's that Gold guy, right? He's one of your friends from home.

Friend isn't the right word, exactly. But yeah, he's from home. Not the one who cast the curse, but definitely responsible for plenty of unpleasantness.

[They called him the Dark One, and not for nothing.]

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