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[sailorwings]

[The video starts focused on the space a few inches above Usagi's head, showing the obviously alien decor of one of the pod rooms on the ship. Someone is not quite sure how to aim the camera on her cool new communicator at the moment, but she corrects the angle a bit ham-handedly as she starts to talk. Usagi looks tired, and nervous, and she's speaking Japanese.]

Everybody? Are you getting this? I'm-- I think I'm some place pretty weird.

[She glances around. Yeah. Weird is an understatement. She lowers her arm a little, showing a wider angle: Usagi is seated, slouched, on the floor near where she emerged from her pod, with her transformation compact in her lap. She's got that 'about to cry' trembly face going on.]

And just--just when we were all back together again. Is this some kind of enemy? Could I just be having a nightmare instead?

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[video]

[growingwild]

[she's not talking a language Briar understands, but her distress doesn't need a translation.]

You alright? Can you understand me? [He firsts asks her in Common - or 'English', as she'd see it - then repeats it in various languages: Trader, Chammuri, and Narmonese amoung others. Hopefully she knew at least one of them, or this could be a tricky conversation]

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[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee frowns. That's not English or Mandarin, that's for sure.]

You alright?

[And because it's worth a try, being common and all...]

Ni mei shi ba?

[video]

[gtfostalker]

[That.

Is a girl that is about to cry. Which isn't something that Strelok is used to at all. One that speaks a language he doesn't quite recognize. Also, there's now video on his PDA, what's up with that? He fiddles with said PDA until he manages to turn on the video on his end, and responds in English. He's had the best luck with that, so far.]

Ah. Please don't cry, miss. Do you know English? Or...

[He asks more or less the same question in Russian and Ukrainian, and some very broken German. Something has to work, he hopes.]

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[kazeninaru]

[It takes a couple minutes for Haruka to scramble to get a response-- because she'd only been half listening to her communicator, because she'd been driving a tank of an all-terrain vehicle out in the mountains, not quite yet returned to what passes for civilization.

But respond she does, once the vehicle is stopped and she's tumbled out, to the protests and confusion of the other people within, with a hurried and shocked:]

Usagi??

[Voice]

[nodavinci]

[Tony's Japanese is...passable, if pretty accented.]

No enemies. You're safe.

[For the moment. Until the next raid. Or dinosaurs. But he's pretty sure that won't go over well, even if he could figure out how to explain those issues without having to resort to interpretive dance.]

Do you speak English?

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[sadandsingle]

[Tosh remembers feeling much the same way when she first woke up on Verdana, and so she replies in fluent Japanese.]

It's not a nightmare - you're in a crashed spaceship on a different planet.

[...she's not very good at being reassuring.]

Are you all right?