[color=00FFFF]Here, let me help you.[/color]

Ciel wore a sympathetic smile and waved at the still-shellshocked girl from the corner of her HUD.

[color=00FFFF]I'm going to bring up some options for you. Go ahead and hit accept on all of the changes, okay? This interface is new to me too, so we may need to tweak it over time.[/color]

Her ginger voice navigated Aki through the labyrinthian menu of the Expanse Caller to modify a handful of arcane settings that might as well have been written in hieroglyphics. Aki could make out changes in notification layout and suppression, chip folder defaults, and... navi access control permissions? Whatever Ciel was doing, she seemed to know her way around these things.

[color=00FFFF]I'm going to look for any info I can find about this world. Stick with the others, okay? I won't be going anywhere.[/color]

In a flash like the sweep of a lighthouse, the navi broke apart into large azure pixels of data, evaporating from the corner of the strange interface. Aki's newly-rearranged HUD lit up with a new icon, bearing a solid diamond in the corner of her vision, probably indicating that Ciel had returned to the depths of her PET—er, her Expanse Caller. Aki pushed the flood of new information to the side. She had much more important questions to answer; for example, why was this girl carried in by a personal angel? Maybe she really was a spy, or some kind of plant...

[color=FF7276]H-hey there.[/color]

Aki flashed a toothy smile at Octavia.

[color=FF7276]Where'd you come from? Do you have any idea what this place is?[/color]

She panned her gaze to the rest of the group.

[color=FF7276]And... where in the world should we go?[/color]