Edward meets a bubble.

[waywardtomato]

Who: Radical Edward and Everyone!
When: Day!
Where: The Plaza!
What: Another new arrival!
Type:Starting Prose, Will follow whatever you want!
Status: Open!

With the coral's usual fanfare, another visitor is left lying in a heap in the middle of the plaza. This one appears to be a very androgynous looking girl(?) in her early teens. Sitting alongside her is a very wet looking computer, and a startled Pembroke Welsh Corgi that barks a few times at the girl(?), and then tears off into the city proper after the girl doesn't move.

The unconscious girl(?) continues to lie in the plaza. It is unsure at first glance if she is merely sleeping, or worse.

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[fightforastar]

"I have to ask you, though, Edward: have you noticed where you are?"

Tifa gestures upwards, towards the dome of water above them.

[waywardtomato]

"Edward is here!" She says, matter-of-factly, but then her eyes follow Tifa's gesture. Her head craning back, following the curve of the dome all the way until her head was touching the ground behind her. Ed's legs kick off and she enters a roll, quickly reappearing on her feet.

"OooOOoH! Edward is under the watery stuff. Edward is a mermaid."

[fightforastar]

Tifa can't help a quiet laugh. "You're not a mermaid, sweetie. You've still got your legs, see?"

She shakes her head a bit and goes on. "We are under the ocean, though. I'm not sure where you come from, but it's probably a long, long way from there."

[waywardtomato]

Edward drops to the ground picking her bare feet up to look at them closer. Yep, not a mermaid. Ed knew this, but still managed to be disappointed for second.

"Not a fish person, oh-la-la."

Then she was back on her feet again, just as excited as before.

"It is okay, Ed is a people instead. Edward comes from the round Earth place. Earth, Terra, Erde, Jord, Maa! It has the things that fall from the sky and go sssshhhhhhbblAAAAAM!" Ed accompanies the sound she makes with a wide flailing of her arms.

[fightforastar]

Tifa doesn't recognize any of the names Ed gives, but the description reminds her uncomfortably of Meteor looming in the sky back home. It only shows on her face for an instant.

"I don't think I've heard of your planet, but when we figure out how to get home, I'm sure we'll be able to get you back to it."

[waywardtomato]

"Earth is Earth." It made sense to Ed.

"Oh! Ed thanks the Tifa-Person. Though, Edward doesn't want to go home yet. This place is new! It has the fun new people to meet! Like the Tifa-Person! Besides, Ed doesn't have home right now. Ed left the Bebop. She said goodbye to the Spike-Person and the Jet-Person. Faye-Faye left earlier."

She missed them, in her way. Ed did not like to stay in any given place for too long. She longed to explore... well, just about everything. The time had come to leave, but she would always remember the time she spent with the crew of the Bebop.

[fightforastar]

"I guess that's not such a bad way to look at it."

Tifa isn't completely convinced of Edward's apparent lack of ties to home, but the kid is definitely taking it more in stride than most of them do. And maybe, for those who don't have anything pressing waiting for them back home, this can be more like an adventure than a setback. Except, it's not nearly as safe as it ought to be, for a kid.

"Well, why don't we at least get you dried off, huh?"

[waywardtomato]

Edward blinks, confused. Right! She was wet. She was not entirely sure why, but she was under the water, so it made enough sense for her. If she needed to get dry, she would do what the Ein-Person does. The strange little girl drops to her hands and knees and starts attempting to shake herself dry. All she really manages to do is spray water everywhere, while still being mostly wet.

"Heeeeheeee. Ed is now dry, Tifa-Person." She says, still dripping.

[fightforastar]

"Ah!" Tifa raises up her arms in an attempt to ward off some of the splashing. Well, now they're both wet. "Hey now, I'm pretty sure this place didn't turn you into a dog either."

She walks to the nearest shop with towels out and returns to toss one to Ed, keeping another for herself.

Well, thanks for the idea for the animal curse, haha.

[waywardtomato]

She accepts the towel, and does a ridiculous job of toweling herself off. It takes a bit longer then it should, but soon she is mostly dry.

"Edward knows Edward is not doggy-person. She learned it from the Ein-Person. Ein-Person does it when he gets wet." She stops, sniffing at the air, realizing finally about the missing corgi. "Ein-Person is missing. Edward does not know where he is."

did not intend that when I first typed it but yep. lol

[fightforastar]

"Ein is your dog?" Tifa takes a cursory look around the plaza.

"Sweetie, I'm not sure if he would have come with you. But we can take a look around to be sure."

[waywardtomato]

"Ein is here, Tifa-Person. Ed is sure of it, she can smell him." She makes a show of smelling the air for Tifa.

"Ein-person is probably doing doggy stuff. He always follows Ed, even when she left Bebop."

Actually, Ein was trying get his bearings in the new underwater world and corral someone to come help his (as he still thought) unconscious friend. Ein was quite intelligent for a dog, being that he was the result of a genetic research experiment.

[fightforastar]

Tifa opens her mouth to say something about Ed not really being able to smell the dog, but thinks better of it. For all she knows, Ed has an extraordinary sense of smell. There are stranger folk here.

"Then I'm sure he'll turn up."

[waywardtomato]

"Yes, yes, Tifa-Person! Ed will go look for him she thinks. Ed does not want him to end up in doggy prison. It is a hard life, doggy prison. Edward does not want to have to spring him from the joint."

Edward is soon bouncing around Tifa once more, It was time for edward to explore, and possibly find the Dog-Person.

"Ed thanks the Tifa-Person for the help and the now-being-dry-ness." With one final huge grin at Tifa, Edward turns and picks up the remains of her drenched computer, Tomato. With that on her head, she turns and starts walking towards the general direction she thought Ein might be in.