“More than on a rare occasion…? But, I thought Ari was not rich, yes…?”
When you’re a poor, unemployed twenty something year old with an inability to pay rent, a terrible gambling habit and a fourteen year old girl who eats quadruple as much as a normal person would, you have to take what you can get…
Which, unfortunately, turns out to be ‘the cheapest possible’.
“…Where else but from space?”
Deep, long blinks. Kagura tilts her head to the side, staring at her master with the slightest of bewilderment. In retrospect, perhaps, it’s understandable that Ari would be stunned, but to Kagura, who has lived her whole life in a world where space travel was commonplace…
It was weird for her to imagine anyone questioning the idea.
“Oh, are you asking where I grew up, yes? Um…”
She’s hesitating to say it. But, then she looks up to Ari and meets her master’s eyes.
“A planet called Rakuyou. It always rained, so the sun never came out.”
Absentmindedly, Kagura’s fingers run across the hilt of the umbrella she always carries with her.
“Well, technically, ‘alien’ can be used t’ mean somethin’ strange or unfamiliar; foreign, y’ know? It’s also used for folks from different countries in some places, rather than jus’ other planets entirely. I mean, I can see why it might have an exclusive meanin’ once folks became space-farin’ but…” Halting herself, she shakes her head away from the minor ramble, and sighs. “Well, never mind that. An’ well– I’m not rich here, so that’s gonna take some gettin’ used t’. I’ve always had plenty’a money back home. But…”
Well, Kagura’s question raises some questions in return.
“Is anythin’ but rice an’ eggs real expensive where you’re from? Cause I mean…” She’s never been that lacking in money, but she knows people have been– and it’s never a good thing. “Well– it shouldn’t be a problem t’ feed ya, if we’re careful, but we gotta mind our spendin’. Never know when y’ might need t’ buy or replace somethin’ important.”
“Huh… well, there’s not much in th’ way of folks goin’ t’ other planets where I’m from– not jus’ yet, anyway. It must be interestin’, bein’ able t’ go from planet t’ planet…” She trails off, and sets a hand on Kagura’s shoulder, patting it and then using a careful grip there to begin steering her in the direction of their temporary ‘home’. “Well, Earth’s got more varied weather than that at least, so y’ ain’t gotta worry about bein’ rained on all th’ time.”
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