Ternifac, Planet Yamatai
Earlier
Thia admired the simple red dress that lay on the bed in front of her. She smiled a little at the thought that the dress was hers only as of a few hours ago, and the bed would no longer be hers in a few hours from now. Then she looked down at her still-sore ankle which she had wrapped in an ugly medical compressor cuff on her doctor's orders. She thought about it for a minute, then glanced back at the dress and saw what she needed. She untied a ribbon that had been intended to go around her neck, and instead proceeded to wrap it around and hide the cuff. Once the cuff was sufficiently hidden, she tied the ribbon into a pretty bow.
Satisfied, she pulled the dress over her head and smoothed it over the slender curves of her dark-skinned body before she looked in a mirror. The dress clung tightly and was longer than she was used to, extending to just above her knees but a slit up one leg to her hip allowed for a wide range of movement and she thought that it made her look damn good while doing so. Bringing a hand up, she ran her fingers over her usually straight but now curly permed black hair. Next, she slipped her feet into a pair of golden flats. Despite her already above-average height of 5'10", she enjoyed every opportunity to tower over those around her, but she had been warned against wearing high heels after nearly breaking her ankle last month in a bar. She pulled on a long, fluffy white overcoat that fell almost to her ankles and made her feel like she was a polar bear. Normally, she wouldn't mind the cold, but she reached into her purse and pulled out a datapad with an itinerary that showed her spending long periods at several public transit stations on her journey. It read:
Aquarius Itinerary
Train: Ternifac -> Uesereryan Fields
Train: Uesereryan Fields -> Teisenjou
Elevator: Teisenjou -> Amatsu-Yamatai
PAINT SA 009: Amatsu-Yamatai -> Jiyuu System
PAINT YC 003: Jiyuu System -> Koukotsu System Note: get off at Star Fortress Aquarius
The Nepleslian woman groaned slightly, both at how complicated the trip was and how much time she would be spending in space. But she wasn't one to let things like that keep her from having fun, so she put her datapad back into her purse and slung it over her shoulder. Having done so, she was now wearing everything she owned, so she turned and nearly made it out the door before she stopped and remembered to pull her apartment keys out of her purse and toss them onto the bed where her now ex-landlord could find them.
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Star Fortress Aquarius
Thia stepped off the Spirit of the Colonies commuter ferry, which had carried her for the final leg of her trip and breathed a sigh of relief. She realized, of course, that she was still in space, but the massive star fortress was certainly more like a planet than the starships she had been on for the last few hours. The Nepleslian woman no longer wore the fluffy white overcoat she had brought for the cold weather, having traded it in Jiyuu to someone who was travelling to Yamatai in exchange for a big pair of black sunglasses, which helped her get some rest and went a long way to hide how tired she felt.
"Alright, Aquarius," she announced before taking a deep breath, then continued in her best approximation of a prima donna.
"I'm ready for my inspection now."