Naomi steps closer, slowly, to test its flight distance.

If she looks nonthreatening enough, she can get within a couple of meters before it decides to start moving towards a bush nearby.

Itaruko will wait behind patiently.

"So close."

"They are nice creatures," says Itaruko.

"Yep. If I see another one I'm giving it some of the fruit."

"Popular activity in parks, yeah," he smiles.

They aren't very far from the tree.

Naomi grabs some more!

"I only had time to test one of the colors. Here's the safe one."

He grabs some of that color! Then grabs some of various other types and looks around for anything else that could be interesting in the area.

There appears to be a large-ish tree, visible over some of the nearby ones! It is about quadruple, maybe quintuple the size of the surrounding ones.

Naomi is curious so she goes over to look at it.

Itaruko follows!

There is a little clearing nearby, with a small pond (containing a couple of small animals, bathing) and some relatively flat grass and other small creatures around the edge of it.

The tree itself is about as tall as it seemed from afar, and of some approximately-yew-or-oak variety, though the precise genus or species is probably hard to pin down.

Naomi peels some of the fruit and tosses it by the the pond. 

A creature comes down from a nearby tree and fetches it. It looks like a small squirrel.

The other creatures are mostly pretty still near the lake.

(Itaruko eats some of the fruit.)

Naomi sits on the grass, staring at the animals. Generally if mammals eat a fruit it's safe for humans too, which means they're not going to starve immediately.

But that still leaves the question of what they're going to do in the long-term. There's been no sign of any way to get back to their home worlds, and even though they've come across convenient unfamiliar magic, they haven't come across much -- not enough to generalize about what kinds of things are possible.

Naomi thinks seriously about the possibility that she'll be in this weird, uninhabited world forever. Itaruko has been good company so far, but she really wants to -- find more people. 

"Tell me about people from your world." Naomi says after minutes of silence. "Did you have friends? Family?"

"I knew quite a lot of people? A few friends, lots of acquaintances. Family's mostly back in Eiro."

"Anyone you'll miss?"

"– My best friend, probably, is Theira? She was studying math, linguistics on the side."

"I had a fixer set up," Naomi says offhandedly. "She was going to be my go-to for getting a team. A good one, obviously, one that knew how to stay anonymous so I could trust them with stuff I told them. It took so long to find her, I went through dozens, and she ended up being so nice. Even set me up with some munitions contacts."

"And a fixer is… like, an agent? Someone who gets you in contact with people, advertises your skills?"

"Yeah! Well, sort of. They're not just representing you -- they're more like middlepeople or go-betweens. For illegal drek like setting up a shadowrunning team or buying military-spec weapons."

"… That sounds more like some sort of organized crime system than what I was thinking."

"It's not very organized. The networks are very informal."

"I don't think I know any sorts of crime networks," says Itaruko. "Presumably they exist, somewhere – like drugs, there are a few drug networks – but they're pretty quiet about it."

"Ha! Yeah, well, of course they would be, kind of comes with the territory if you're doing something illegal."

"Yeah," he agrees. "But it sounds a little like fixers are more well-known about? Or did you have contacts to get in touch with them first…?"

"They're not, really, you have to know where to find them on the Matrix. The most popular host for shadowrunning is Jackpoint, which is pseudonymous. I know a lot of people but I don't know who the really competent ones actually are because they don't have their information in wireless -- hard to do with all the tech everywhere, but possible."