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Wellspring Arms and Meditation Center, Friday

Friday, and they were still in the frozen nowhere wastelands, but at least penguin-hunting had been pretty fun. So Rikku wasn't entirely grumpy as she opened the Wellspring Arms.

Well, Rikku could never stay grumpy for long, anyway.

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She's here, upgrading some armor.

After her class ended, Momoko had dropped her stuff off and once again gone exploring the town. A little bit. Eventually she wandered her way into the Wellspring Arms.

"Wow! This place has... a lot of guns." Momoko wasn't too bouncy about the idea of a weapons store so close to the school. Not that she knew much about the guns in this world. "And I somehow don't think that this one is meant to shoot banana peels and orange rinds."

"Hiya!" Rikku bounced, waving cheerfully to her little sib. "Nope, those all shoot bullets. I think. Unless we got any flamethrowers in. Man, now I want a flamethrower. Heyyyyy, how's your first week been??"

Momoko looked up and "YAY! RIKKUUUUU!" She bounced over to her big sister and grinned. "It's been AWESOME. I've got a roommate who's a boy - did I tell you that before? His name is Lucas. And he's a writer and a basketball player. We haven't really talked much but he seems nice. And I met a girl named Turtle the other day at the dorms. And there's a boy named Sora who has a friend named Riku and I thought he meant you, but his Riku's a boy. And I went to Turtle's store and bought some stuff and I've had two classes!" She paused for a moment, then remembered, "Oh, and at the picnic I met a yellow alien who's a living robot!"

Rikku cracked up, amused by the other girl's energy. "Turtle's awesome," she announced. "And so's Sora, and he also knows a Rikku who's a girl who isn't me. Uh. She's a little fairy-thing who steals stuff? It's kinda weird. I think I met Lucas, and whoa, are you okay with a boy roommate? Ooooh, and the robot! I've met two this week! Robots are so cool."

Well, they were.

"Everyone's been awesome so far!" Momoko smiled. "And yeah. It was kind of weird at first to know I was going to have a boy for a roommate, but I thought, well, Kaoru - that's one of my friends back home - she lives with her two brothers, so I guess I could just think of Lucas like that?" She shrugged. "Bumblebee is cool! I haven't met a second robot. Does he sing, like Bumblebee? I thought he was a mecha at first, but he doesn't have a pilot inside, and he said he was alive and from another planet. Which is way cooler than having mecha at the school, really!"

She looked around. "So, do you own this place, like Turtle owns her store?"

"Oh, no, not even," Rikku laughed. "This is Cable's store. I just work here on Fridays. If it were my store, it'd have a funkier name. Possibly in Al Bhed. Is Lucas nice about letting you have the room to yourself for ... you know. Changing and all that?!"

"Somehow, it's been working out. We have a bathroom in our room, with a tub too! and if I need to I can go in there, but it's been okay. He's not nearly as messy as my little sister!" Momoko grinned. "Cable? There's a girl in my class named Ino, I met her at the welcome picnic! Her home uses some of the same language as mine does and she mentioned a person named 'Cable' this morning in her class introduction. I think. I was kind of distracted by Mr Durden's apron. Is Cable nice?"

"He's very nice," she giggled, following along as best she could. "Ino works here, too. Same Cable. I don't have a bathroom in my room, oh, man, that'd be neat. Kinda helps with the whole boy/girl deal, too, huh?"

She grinned. "I'm glad you're settling in okay, then. Not too homesick or anything?"

"That's good. That he's nice. And that Ino works here. I think. I kinda worried because of the guns and all." Momoko said, gesturing around the room. "My world doesn't have much in the way of guns, and they're mostly used by bad guys and monsters and they usually mean lots of annoying trouble and property damage for the citizens."

Then she got quiet and looked down at her finger drawing imaginary circles on the countertop. "It happened so fast, my coming here, that I haven't had the chance to get homesick yet. Everything is so new and amazingly cool. It still feels like I'm dreaming, like I'm really at home and I've fallen asleep reading a comic book or watching one of my tv shows. And any minute someone's gonna call my name and I'm gonna wake up - " She stopped and shook her head, a smile growing back to her face.

"Sorry! No, I'm not really homesick, yet. Just dazed at being here at all."

"It's okay, really," Rikku said, looking around the room and back at Momoko. "It's kinda ... we have guns, in my world, but it's not the monsters who have them. It's the people fighting the monsters, to make it safe for everyone else, you know?"

And for the fighter-monks, in Bevelle, but that wasn't going to help her argument any, so she skipped it.

"Cable ... doesn't actually sell most of the guns here. I mean. He won't sell to just anybody, and I'm not allowed to sell them, either. You have to be someone with a really good reason for wanting a gun, you know? He takes it seriously." Which, with Cable, was an understatement.

She smiled softly at the rest. "It's kinda a shock, I know. It takes a month or so just to get your head around it. But you can write your friends, right? The ones back home? And if you ever need me, come knock on my door. Ice cream does wonders for homesickness."

"I'm going to try this weekend! To contact my friends, that is. I promised I'd try as soon as I got settled in." Momoko replied. "And I will definitely come and visit you! Even if you don't have ice cream."

"Do they have phones?" Rikku grinned. "It's way easier if they do. Nobody has phones, where I'm from, so I have to write letters and it takes forever."

Or, you know, a few days, which felt like forever when you were a hyperspaz.

"If you come visit, I'll make sure I have ice cream," she promised. "Room 308. Ella's there, too, and she's very nice. Uh. And if you really, really need me and I'm not there, try ... 429? With Reno? But that's kinda emergency-only."

As they might need to get dressed in order to answer the door, and all.

Moddable Zen.

Stick 'em up!

I have nothing witty for this. Woe.

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