Zone D -- The Foam

[The Future Warrior]

As eager as she was to get to the safehouse, even she wasn't silly and impetuous enough to try and tackle that mess of jagged rocks. Not in this much water. Not while she was carrying someone. On her own she probably could have navigated it without much incident and scampered through, but with someone else to worry about? Responsibility was admittedly never her strong suit, but in this instance she was going to have to be that. Responsible. She'd agreed to help get Isaac to the safehouse to find somethign to help with his leg and walking problem, and by golly she was gonna do that! Even if she had to skirt around an obstacle.

Luckily, she knew a shortcut! It was a bit longer, distance wise, but with the troubles of navigating a wall of sharp, rock-y death, it would hopefully work out for the best. Less time and less trouble, a winning combination!

"So Isaac, you said you were out there mini—BWUGCH!" She tried to speak again and got a mouthful of water. Salty, dirty and disgusting, and it made her cough and sputter. Ugh, why did she keep trying to talk in all this? Dang curiosity! She had to know these things! "Mining and stuff, and colonizing planets? What's—KAFF—what's that all about?"

"It's, uh..." Isaac faltered in his words, looking up at the sky. "...well, the first part is pretty much self-explanatory. Mining operations, like anywhere else. Tools are a little different, scale's a little bitter, but..." He shrugged, as well as he could in his situation. "Still making holes in things to pull the valuables out. Ores, minerals, unidentified substances, that kind of stuff."

Graowr nodded emphatically. She only understood the basics of it. The idea of value was, admittedly, rather lost on her. She understood the meaning of it. Things were valuable, and some things were more or less so. Valuable things were usually rare, or hard to come by, usually both. So these...ores and minerals and stuff must be both, if they had to go space traveling to other planets to find them!

"The colonization part is, well..." He shifted slightly, going quiet as he bided time for his thoughts. The majin, getting a consistent face-full of shallow waves every now and then, was patient, focusing on her footing and pace as she went. "...it's kind of like going to other planets and checking them for the right conditions to survive. Right gravity, atmospheric pressure and components...if it's not all just right, or close enough to it, we gotta make it so it is. Or build places where we can regulate it. It's all complicated stuff, not really my thing. I just keep the ships that go there to do it running and repaired, you know?"

"Yeah, I getcha!" She didn't get it at all, but she was just excited to learn new things. And she went on for a while, peppering Isaac with questions about this and that, about what he did to repair things, how he did it, what sort of planets he'd been to or seen, and on and on.

Eventually, they reached the island with the safehouse, and Graowr looked up. "We're here!" she said brightly and cheerfully. She hurried forward, solid ground giving her ample footing to pick up her pace and haul Isaac up out of the water. "Hold on, might get a little bumpy. Only for a minute, though!"

"Wait, wha—" Isaac's question was cut off as he grit his teeth against a wave of pain in his injured leg as the gentle dragging through water went to a jostling, uneven gait as the small, blue girl splashed out of the water and onto land, toward the safehouse.

Future Warrior + Isaac: Moving from D14 to Safehouse D