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[bytwo.livejournal.com]

[Perhaps you remember from ages ago, when everyone received an egg with their own personal pet in it? Well, River has been very carefully keeping hers safe and warm until finally, finally it has hatched.

Now River is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the plane, watching enchanted as a tiny unicorn about the length of her hand runs around gleefully. BEST. PET. EVER.]

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[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

It's brilliant. Where did you find it?

IT'S MY UNICORN IN A BOX!

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

It hatched. From a present.

I HAS A JEALOUS

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

Quite the present.

[Gwen reaches out to touch it, and then pulls away, as if she's worried it'll grow into some razor-toothed creature and gnaw her arm off.]

Does it have a name?

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[bytwo.livejournal.com]

Not yet.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[Gwen seems pleased by this and teases the unicorn, petting it gently with her fingertips.]

You have a name though, yeah? I'm Gwen.

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

Yes.

River.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[Awwwwe, River. Gwen thinks you're a little strange but still adorable.]

River's a pretty name. You'll have to find a suitably pretty one for your unicorn. Can't say I can complain about havin' something this cute around the Plane... I see a lot of strange things but I don't get much of a chance to play with unicorns.

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

You can.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[Gwen caves and sits down next to River, playing with the unicorn. It seems to lift her spirit substantially.]

Are there a lot of presents like this one on the world you come from?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

It came from the plane. Simon won't be pleased.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

There are certainly worse things in the universe than unicorns. [She pets the unicorn playfully, watching it prance around.] Whose Simon, then?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

My older brother. He's the best doctor in the Core.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

Bless. I always wanted a brother. Only child, me.

What's the core?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

It's the center of civilization. They meddle.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[... omg Gwen has a confused.]

Never heard of it. Is it some kind of government group or somethin'?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

It's the planets. Osiris?

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[Gwen's trying to follow, really.]

The planets, all right. Like, the core group of planets you come from, yeah? Is Osiris your planet?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

I was born there.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

[Yay, gold star for Gwen!]

I was born on a planet called Earth. Don't think I've met anyone from Osiris before. Do they all look human?

[bytwo.livejournal.com]

We are human. We had a mass migration, years ago.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

Oh!

... Why'd you lot leave?