Meat n' Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a tall

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[hisfathersstaff]

Floating overhead, Negi noticed the head of pink hair. His heart leaped into his throat as he though he recognized the mop of hair.

Zooming down he nearly grabbed Sakura in a hug yelling "Makie-san~!" when he stopped short. The girl was far too tall to be Makie, if not by much. And her eyes were the wrong color. And Makie wouldn't wear what she was wearing. Wow, it looked good though.

Coloring in embarrassment, he stammered, "Sorry! I thought you were someone else!"

[hisfathersstaff]

"Yeah. They're not hard to work at any rate." Negi really had no concept of illusions other than spells anyhow.

"It does at that. Free service is great, but doing other things for people in repayment does help out a lot," agreed Negi.

[haruno]

"It builds a sense of give and take," she said, thinking of it more in terms of what service exchanges worked like back home. One wasn't always paid enough to get things done, and the exchange of one service for another could often act as a bridge where finances otherwise would have stood. "A sense of greater community, in a way."