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Meelia goes to Amenta
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Meelia stops snoozing really quick and tears up when she sees the two blues. She nods, hurriedly.

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"We found you some guards who will go with you to your planet and see you off. We think that we found some that won't be - too unpleasant about you having wanted to help the reds. You can send us an email later to let us know how they did - you can have your pocket everything back, to bring with you, and hopefully you'll be able to get internet at some point without going into the city radius."

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Nod nod nod.

"I'll email you soon as I can if that's okay."

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"Yes, that's fine. Do you want to meet your guards now?"

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Meelia will blink some of the tears out of her eyes.

"Um. Haemi do you want a hug first..."

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Haemi hugs her.

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Meelia hugs back, tearfully. She's ready to see the guards now, if that's what Tish and Haemi want.

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They're waiting in the hall. Tish goes and gets them, and introduces them as Kamu Kessa and Pelape - "Do you still prefer Milath?"

"I haven't wanted to replace it, I'm fond of it."

"Pelape Milath."

"Pleased to meet you, Meelia," says Pelape. She has an accent in Tapap.

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Meelia is skeptical of Amentans by this point.

"I don't know whether I'm happy to meet you yet."

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"It's just a saying," says Pelape.

"I hear you're surprisingly dangerous for such a little person," says Kessa, "so even though word is you're happy to go back home at this point we're going to attach you to a wheelchair and wheel you, on the way to the spaceship. We'll be able to let you loose in your quarters as long as the door's locked. Your mouse will be on the ship too but they want to keep him locked up till we're letting you two off at Keetim, we're not as used to keeping mice where we can see them any other way." He's got a wheelchair ready.

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Meelia rolls her eyes a little bit but doesn't say aloud that she can definitely get out of the wheelchair if she wanted to.

"Okay."

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They haul her into the wheelchair by a laborious process that involves listing a checklist of security procedures out loud as they perform each step so she's never loose, and then Pelape takes a position behind the chair and pushes to the elevator, nodding politely at Tish and Haemi on the way out.

"We're taking a hospital transport to the shuttleport and we'll transfer to a warper in spacedock," Pelape tells her. "Let me know if you have any questions."

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Meelia is distracting herself by figuring out how she could escape. She's not gonna but. It's fun to figure out and actually not to easy. Eventually, she picks up the trick of imagining how things are meant to work if someone doesn't want to get broken and is big and then figuring out how she might be an ex-ception to those things. She almost describes aloud what she's thinkin bout cause it's actually sorta interesting but she doesn't. 

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They get in a truck in the hospital garage; not an ambulance, but a van that appears to normally haul medications and bandages and such. There are protrusions they can secure the wheelchair to and fold-down shelf-benches for the greys to sit on and a driver ready to take them to the shuttleport.

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Meelia sits quietly. She is having to work really hard not to start conversations about the cool gymnastics she could use to escape if she wanted to.

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The greys aren't going to start conversations under these conditions either.

The drive takes half an hour and then they disembark at a service entrance to the shuttleport, present credentials to the security there, and wheel her in to a small shuttle.

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The shuttle goes up to the spaceport. There is an opportunity for a bathroom break if she wants one and then they put her on the next ship to the amalien world.

"We're going to trade off shifts so one of us will always be with you," Milath explains, as Kessa peels off. "So these are your quarters and I'll be here till it's Kessa's shift and then vice versa. You comfy?"

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"No. I didn't like being trapped in one place but I imagined different ways to get out so that helped a bit."

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"Would you rather sleep the whole way? I was hoping to talk to you but if you're miserable about the quarters I don't mean to insist you stay up."

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"I can move around in here so it's better. I don't think I want to nap just cause things are being hard. That's usually when its most important to be awake."

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"Okay. ...what made you interested in helping the reds, if I may ask?"

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"I want to help people and I thought they might need it since people were mean to them and they seemed scared. Usually there's a reason for that and I was trying to figure it out but then people were way meanier to them then I expected and it made it hard for me to figure things out."

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"How come you chose that way to figure it out?"

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"Talking to people is usually a good way of figuring things out about them?"

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"Why did you decide to try to talk to them in person?"

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