Scene #1431: A Neuroi and a Light Cruiser walk into an ice cream parlour...

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Shigure	The ice cream parlour clerk wasn't expecting a young looking girl with deep brown eyes, and an adhoge that could kill a man to walk into his shop today, nor did he expect her to be wearing what looks like bits of a ship on her back. Kuma just beams happily. "Kuma will order when her friend gets here, kuma! Please be patient with me, kuma~!" she chirps happily, eyes closed and that happy-go-lucky smile broad on her lips.
Evangeline	It doesn't take long for this friend to arrive. When she does...it is another thing the clerk wasn't expecting. A girl who is black from the tip of her ears to the bottoms of her rounded legs. She doesn't even walk, she just floats through the air. Oh, and she has no facial features. She floats to a stop near Kuma, then turns her head to regard the ship maiden. "...You are...Kuma...?" she asks in a soft voice that seems to come not from her face, but from her wrist. Or, at least where her wrist should be. Her hands are not visible at the moment thanks to those long sleeve-like arms.
Shigure	Kuma remains beaming, "Hi! Yes, I'm Kuma, kuma~!" she replies, then opens her eyes. It takes her a moment before she leans in, scrutinizing the Neuroi. "You're not what I was expecting, kuma." she muses, but then steps forwards and wraps a BIG, TIGHT HUG around the Neuroi. "Doesn't matter to me though, kuma~!"
Evangeline	The little Neuroi Girl is surprised as she is hugged. She is still for a long moment before slowly, she lifts her arms and wraps them around Kuma. "...that is...very kind of you...Kuma..." she says, then tightens the hug similarly to how Kuma is hugging her. "...I am Evangeline...thank you for allowing me to join you for ice cream..." When the hug is finally released, the Neuroi Girl looks at the menu. "...what flavor would you suggest...?"
Shigure	Someone who doesn't squirm or complain when she hugs them! This is the BEST DAY /EVER/! Kuma releases, then scampers up to peer at the menu, much like a little kid might. "Ku~ma~, ku~ma~... Mmm, I want, Chocolate, and fudge!" she chirps merrily, looking over her shoulder at the Neuroi. "What flavours do you like?" she asks.
Evangeline	Evangeline is both confused and comforted by Kuma's behavior. It may not show with her lack of emotional responses, but Evangeline hardly ever has people excited to see her. More now than ever before, but still...not many. Evangeline follows Kuma as the ship girl scampers over, then considers. "...I like..." she pauses, then lowers her head. "...I...do not have a favorite flavor...they all taste the same to me..." she says as she floats there, arms at her sides. "...it is why I asked what flavor you would suggest..." she adds, then raises her head again to look at the server. "...I will also have...chocolate and fudge..."
Shigure	Kuma blinks... her expression shifts from curiosity to outright HORROR. "Y-You can't taste it, kuma!?" she turns, grabbing at Evangeline's arms to bring them up between her hands. "Th-that's terrible, kuma! That'd be like, Kuma being unable to float on water, kuma!" she says, while the server hastily evacuates the area to get the girls their icecream.
Evangeline	Evangeline just floats there as Kuma claims her arms and holds them between her hands. Evangeline's head tilts in curiousity. "...I have never been able to taste...so it does not bother me..." she says. She slides her hands free of her sleeves, then gently holds Kuma's hands. "...but, it is kind of you to be concerned..." she adds before giving Kuma's hands a squeeze. "...but...I do like ice cream...it has lots of energy..."
Shigure	Kuma blinks a little, peering at those emerging hands that take hers between them. She looks from those hands, up at the blank 'face' of the Neuroi. "Moooh, you reminds me of Jintsuu... she's always talking quietly, kuma." she states almost randomly, the sentiment probably totally lost on the Neuroi. The server returns soon enough with two bowls filled with chocolat fudge icecream, and sets them on the counter.
Evangeline	Evangeline tilts her head in curiousity as Kuma says that, then holds up their hands, clasped together now. "...what is a Jintsuu...?" she asks softly before looking over at the server. She releases Kuma's hands, then takes her bowl of ice cream and floats toward a table. She floats down into a chair, but with those solid legs the ends of them stick out onto the chair across from her. She takes her spoon between her fingers, then very slowly and carefully scoops up a bit. She looks as though this sort of thing is unusual, and she is having to concentrate quite a bit to not mess up. She raises the spoon toward her 'face', but before it gets there, the ice cream spoon slips and lands on her chest, sticking there thanks to her metallic skin. She pauses, her hand still held in the air, and looks down at the spoon stuck to her. "...I have not quite learned the proper spoon technique..."
Shigure	"Oh! Jintsuu is a Sendai-class torpedo cruiser! She's really nice, but always has to apologize for her sisters Sendai and Naka..." replies Kuma as she picks up the other bowl. She sits in another chair, leaving Evangeline to use both the others. At the drop of the spoon, Kuma can't help but giggle softly. "Try holding it like this, kuma~." she says, showing Evangeline how she grasps the spoon... it's a /very/ unrefined grip, clamping her entire hand around the handle and using it like a mini shovel.
Evangeline	Evangeline watches Kuma demonstrate the 'proper' spoon technique, then nods. "...I see..." she says, then reaches down to pick the spoon up again. The small amount of ice cream it leaves on her chest glows softly before simply...absorbing into her. Then, she tries again. With a firm grip on the spoon, she scoops up more ice cream, then moves it toward her face. She touches it to her face where a mouth would be, and like the ice cream on her chest it just glows then absorbs into her. It might make one wonder why she is even using a spoon if she just absorbs food like that. But, she continues to dutifully scoop and 'eat'. "...on my world...there are aircraft maidens rather than ship maidens..." she says, a bit randomly.
Shigure	Kuma listens, swallowing her mouthful before replying. "How does that work, kuma? Are they spirits of airplanes that have been shot down, kuma?" she asks, tilting her head to the side, causing her adhoge to flop to the side a bit.
Evangeline	Evangeline shakes her head. "...no...they are witches...they use plane engines powered by magic to fly...and their powers allow them to carry heavy armaments..." she says, talking even as she eats. She pauses a moment, then tilts her head. "...how does...that work...? ..are you sharing a body with a spirit...or are you merged with a spirit...?"
Shigure	Kuma shrugs a bit. "Kuma is Kuma! Just like Nagato is Nagato. We just are!" she replies, rather unhelpfully. Maybe she just honestly doesn't know. "Flying with magic? Kuma wishes she could fly, kuma."
Evangeline	Evangeline continues to eat her ice cream with slow, careful scoops. "...you could fly...with a little help from the Union...they have many flying devices...or I could take you flying..." she says, without ever stopping her scooping.
Shigure	Kuma just sighs. "Kuma's displacement is too high for those flight units." she pouts, scooping up anouth big spoonful of ice cream. "It is a good dream though, kuma... but until we beat the Abyssals, I think it should stay a dream, kuma~."
Evangeline	Evangeline nods, then pauses. Her ice cream dish is empty. She sets her spoon down, then looks over at Kuma. "...displacement...but...you are not as large as a regular ship...are you as heavy...?" she asks, sitting back in her seat and folding her hands in her lap politely. "...I have fought the Abyssals...they are dangerous...perhaps as dangerous as Neuroi..."
Shigure	Polishing off her own bowl, Kuma rests her head on her hands. "Kuma doesn't know... I just fight Abyssals, kuma. I don't think about this stuff, kuma." she mumbles quietly, watching the Neuroi. "What's a Neuroi, kuma?"
Evangeline	Evangeline is quiet for a long moment before finally answer. "...I...am a Neuroi...while I am on a mission of peace...the leaders of the Neuroi think that we should destroy the humans and take their planet..." She pauses again, then looks over at Kuma. "...but...I think we should learn to live together...humans and neuroi...we do not have to fight...we could work together...humans make amazing technological devices and have wonderous powers...if Neuroi keep trying to destroy humans...the humans will eventually destoy the Neuroi...or both will be destroyed..." She pauses again, then headtilts. "...why do you say 'kuma' so often...?"
Shigure	Kuma blinks as she listens. She doesn't judge, because she's seen the same possibility, first hand, with the Abyssals. "That's a noble goal, kuma. I hope you success, kuma~." as her verbal tic is brought up, she headtilts and just asks quizzically, "Kuma?"
Evangeline	Evangeline lowers her head just a bit as Kuma offers her encouragement. "...thank you..." she says before lifting her head again. She tilts her head in response to Kuma's apparent misunderstanding of her question. "...why does Kuma end all of Kuma's sentences with Kuma...kuma...?" she says, trying to imitate Kuma in order to see if she will understand that more effectively.
Shigure	"Kuma always talks that way, kuma~." she replies simply, shrugging a little as she watches Evangeline's reaction. "Why does Evangeline talk from her wrist, kuma?"
Evangeline	Evangeline nods lightly at the response, then pauses before looking over at her own wrist. "Oh...I cannot talk without a communicator, and so my friends gave me a special wrist radio that allows me to broadcast my voice. Without it...I would not be able to communicate except over the multiversal channels and other such radio channels..." "...it took me a while to learn how to speak...before that I had to gesture out what I wanted..." she says.