Spaceship Parking (and Beyond!), Sunday

[firstofitskind]

The weekend, Liam felt, had been a pretty good success so far. Sure, Sarah hadn't really been up to anything involving crowds, but that was fine. There were plenty of things they could do that didn't involve lots of people.

Like go flying in Liam's shuttle. Sure, for three out of the four of them it was not actually a new experience, but Liam never got tired of flying and besides, this time it would be Verity behind the controls for the majority of the flight.

(And okay, he genuinely liked Antimony, but he had to admit that picturing her face when she found out that not only did Sarah get to go to space but she did so in a ship that Verity was piloting was pretty damn funny.)

Of course, just out of habit he headed right for the pilot's seat, but then stopped, shook his head, and settled in to the front passenger seat instead, twisting around to grin at Sarah and Renee. "I promise she's a more patient pilot than she is a driver," he said, mostly for Sarah's benefit since it wasn't like Renee had ever had to experience Verity on the road.

[ooc: for two blondes and a cuckoo! posted early for SP purposes.]

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[cryptidsandkinfolk]

Sarah also liked Antimony more than Verity did and concurred with Liam's assessment.

"It's like being prepared for a tornado," she said, nodding. "And that's if she likes you."

[arboreal_priestess]

"Hmph," Verity muttered. And then louder, "Oh look! Jupiter!"

[thejourneysend]

Renee let out a soft snort of laughter, because that was far from subtle as far as subject changes went. Still...

"It is gorgeous, isn't it?" she had to admit.

[firstofitskind]

"Renee's never been up here just for the sake of being up here," Liam shared. "She was always just traveling between the Mothership and Earth."

[cryptidsandkinfolk]

"Amazing, isn't it?" Sarah asked, wide-eyed, nose pressed to the port. "To have stood on the earth and still been able to calculate the tilt and the grade of the elliptical..."

[arboreal_priestess]

"What strange new world, to have such wonders in it!" Verity murmured, deliberately misquoting.

[thejourneysend]

Renee smiled crookedly at that. "When I think about how close we came to losing it," she said, reaching forward to grab Liam's hand and squeeze it, briefly. "I'm glad you came back. Couldn't have pulled it off without you."

[firstofitskind]

Liam shrugged. "It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time," he insisted. "Not really my doing."

[cryptidsandkinfolk]

"That's not how I remember it," Sarah insisted.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Problematic," Verity decided, "but not wrong."

[thejourneysend]

"Not how you-" Renee started to say, and then shook her head. "Stop that," she told Liam, hand leaving his to punch him in the shoulder.

[firstofitskind]

"The universe had a plan, Renee," Liam retorted. This was an old argument, and it always went in the same circles.

[arboreal_priestess]

"So?" Verity asked. "So what? Plans change all the time. Just because it's the universe's doesn't mean it's good."

[cryptidsandkinfolk]

"You know Verity would argue with the universe - or even math - if she disagreed with what it was saying," Sarah advised.

[thejourneysend]

"I don't really care if it was the universe or fate or your alien father kicking you out of the afterlife," Renee rolled her eyes. "You came back."

[firstofitskind]

"Verity, where did you want to go next?" Liam asked abruptly. Yeah, now he was the one executing an extremely subtle topic change.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Somewhere they explain you don't have to be beholden to bullshit and that it doesn't affect your own achievements," Verity muttered.

[cryptidsandkinfolk]

"She said Saturn," Sarah reported with a small grin.

[thejourneysend]

"Certainly what I heard," Renee said with a nod.

[firstofitskind]

"Sounds fake, but okay."

Liam, you were picking up internet slang from the mice again.

[cryptidsandkinfolk]

"Would the three of us lie?" Sarah asked.

A Cuckoo asking that was almost laughable.

[arboreal_priestess]

"We're far too cute to do anything like that," Verity added.

Just adding to the growing collection of untruths.

[thejourneysend]

"We would never," Renee insisted.

[firstofitskind]

Liam just rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Oh yes, that's right, paragons of truth, all of you," he grumbled.

[arboreal_priestess]

"See? You are educable," Verity said with a cheerful smile. "At least about some things."