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[Don fights off the droids just long enough to get an idea of what's going on, then goes with them more or less peacefully.]

[Once in the park, he stakes out the arrivals area, making sure all his friends come through the transporters safely - and learning that a few have departed Luceti in recent weeks.]

[Later, he'll establish a position in the highest place he can reach, and given that he's a ninja, that's pretty high. From this vantage point he surveys the park, studying its geography and figuring out each area's peculiarities. He has his journal with him, and anyone can hail that weird turtle guy perching on the tall flagpole above the park's biggest roller coaster.]

[Eventually, he'll fold the journal backwards and tuck it, still open, into the front of his belt. Somehow in the course of doing so he accidentally turns on the video function, so anyone still watching will get a gut-dropping view of how a ninja travels around a giant amusement park. How's that for a thrill ride?]

[Throughout the rest of the week, Don can most often be found observing the "mini-experiments" in Bubble Land, indulging his aquatic side at the water park in Thrill Land, or consuming outrageous amounts of food at the park's various eateries.]

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The bathtubs in the village suit my needs. [She mistakes villas for village.] We will still need to return to the village for those.

[Oops.]

Ah, no, Xzana, the villas. The houses here in the park.

Villas? Park? [She hadn't actually heard either of those words before, yet she picked up the idea of them fairly easily.] If the bathtubs in this village is the same as the one from where we came then they shall do.

They're even better.

[So heading in that direction!]

[She's a bit skeptical, yet intrigued at the same time as she follows along.] The ones in the village have small waterfalls that can even humans can control when they start and stop easily. Without magic. How are the ones we are seeking even better?

They're bigger.

[Bigger you say? Her eyebrows raise slightly and her steps quicken just a little more as she does her best to not let her hopes up.] How much larger are they? They do not have this tainted water, do they?

No - they're not swimming pools, but they're big enough to stretch out in.

[With her slightly longer than what would be considered normal on a human arms and legs she perks up a bit more excited than what most would be at hearing they can stretch out in a bathtub.

Then again, she is forced to spend several months sleeping in a tub.]

I wish to see these big bathtubs.

We're almost there.

[He leads her around one more corner and then up to the villa he's been staying in. Come inside?]

[She's hesitant a moment. Never been overly confident of going into strange human like buildings, but it does smell like the Kappa. That and she really would like to see this bathtub so she bravely (in her mind) steps over the threshold and continues on into the house.

Head darting here and there. Keeping an open eye out for potential danger.]

[Well, it's a Malnosso-provided house, so who knows what surprising dangers might be lurking. Then again, the same could be said of almost all the buildings in the village.]

[This house is freakishly clean - it hardly looks as though anyone has been living here.]

The bathroom is in the back.

[Freakishly clean to a creature who has grown up in the forest is unnatural. It actually sets her more on edge then a messy house would. Still, this is much what she finds in the buildings when she chooses to venture inside them.]

Alright. [She heads towards the back. Letting her nose guide her to the smell of water. Pushing the door open and-

-awesome! It's HUGE! Maybe she really will be able to stretch out in it! She wastes little time moving across the floor to turn on the tap and stick her arm under it as the tub fills.

Ahhhhh. This was better.]

[Don perches on the edge of the tub - not too close to Xzana - and watches the basin fill up.]

Do you want me to stay?

[She's quiet a moment. She never would trust her life to someone such as Don. No one in the village did she really feel like she could.

However, he was better than a human and more eyes out for danger is better.]

You may stay.

[Hey, Don is totally a gentleman. He'll keep his eyes on danger and not on anything else.]

I take it you're not a big fan of the amusement park?

[Even if Don wasn't a gentleman, Xzana would have no problem with his looking. Being a creature who only wears clothing due to human sensibilities. Once the bath is filled she climbs in without taking any of her clothes off.]

I do not find that place amusing at all. It is loud and filled with bad smells.

I don't know about the bad smells, but I agree about the loud.

It is the smell of the tainted water. I could smell it everywhere. There were so many creatures around. I have not seen so many creatures all in one place.

I used to be from a place with even more people. But I was never... among them.

Even more people? How does your world cope with so many people that must feed?

[Uh.]

Hot dog carts and supermarkets?

Hm, dogs can be useful to humans, but I am not surprise that they eat them as well. [They eat the chickens and cows too after all.] What is a supermarket?

[He starts to correct her, but - who knows what's in a New York hot dog.]

Supermarkets. Or grocery stores. Like the one in the village. You can get all kinds of food, but in my world you have to pay for it.

I do not like the store that is in the village. It is unnatural and strange. How do the humans not become sick from all the plassteec that is on the food?

They don't eat it. It helps keep dangerous things out of the food.

Dangerous? Food is not dangerous if it is eaten as it should be.

Humans have very weak stomachs.

Then they should stop using plasteeic to mess with their food. I only become sick if I eat the plasteeic.

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