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[sheriffing]

Uh, hi.

[ can she have points for effort? the wave she gives is more uncertain than friendly, like she's not entirely comfortable addressing the entire network (she's not). she figures it'll work for everyone else the same way it does for her. when Emma has something to offer, she answers. when she doesn't, she leaves it to someone else.]

My name's Emma, and as a lot of you have already noticed, I'm new here.

[ she's been called out on it enough to know that it's obvious. some part of her still doubts everything here and it bleeds into conversation too easily. most people have been here long enough to accept this reality, but Emma's still thinking of home.]

I'm not gonna pretend that my first instinct wasn't to wallow in my disappointment until my family wakes up, but I know there's a lot to be done here. I've seen all of you getting things done here, and I just wondered... how have you been able to use the skills you learned in your home world to keep you busy in this one?

[ because it's time for her to think about taking on a job, and making a difference, and she's pretty sure that doesn't mean a sheriff's badge and a cruiser anymore. so far, she's been part of the clean-up effort, but she needs something else to get by on.]

Back home, I was the sheriff in a town called Storybrooke, Maine. Here, I don't know. How did you know where to start?

Comments

[romancekiller]

Yeah, definitely. [clarke understands what she means and given that the other woman just arrived, she knows it's a lot to take in]

From that description though, it sounds like the Royal Guard might be good option to check out.

[sheriffing]

I've heard that, yeah. I'm going to look into it.

[ she's grateful for the suggestion. honestly, she wasn't sure where to start.]

What did you do in your world that required medical training?

[romancekiller]

That's good— I'm sure there are still opening too so I hope it works out.

[she nods, still smiling though hearing the question she pauses slightly] It wasn't a requirement— it's just something I've been studying since I was younger. I was interning under my mother who is the Chief Medical Officer back home before all this. [she isn't as skilled as her mother but she's still learning even in this place. it wasn't exactly a requirement but it's just what she liked to do which was helping people and taking care of them. ]

[sheriffing]

[ it makes a little more sense for her to have learned under someone else. that's not the kind of relationship Emma's ever really seen in action; her father was her deputy but she was the sheriff first, so she can't claim there's any sort of legacy involved in what they do.

for Emma, it was always more of a team effort than those skills being taught to her, but it explains a little more about how Clarke decided to pitch in here.] Are you training under someone now, too?

[romancekiller]

Not exactly but I'm learning what I can from the others who work at the clinic.

[sheriffing]

How long have you been here?

[ she can't help wondering if Clarke's seen the worst of their medical concerns; she's heard rumblings of what happened shortly before her group woke up.]

[romancekiller]

I've been here for almost six months now— I was part of the first group of people that woke up from stasis. [she has been definitely seen a lot given she had been here from the start of whatever the hell this situation is]

[sheriffing]

How much has changed in that time?

[ it might not matter, those changes might not be indicative of what's ahead - but she'd like to get a sense of what to expect here. Emma's own limited experience hasn't offered much understanding of what's typical in this world (other than two sides of an inevitable war trying to (or not to) butt heads.]

[romancekiller]

Well the only thing that has changed is that now we're at least able to go a bit further out between Olympia and Wyver.

[sheriffing]

What was it like before, when you first arrived?

[romancekiller]

We were on the station for a few days at first before we were suddenly send in groups of individual escape pods to the ground.

[sheriffing]

Sent in what way?

[ gently floated down, right? right?]

[romancekiller]

In a way that we crash landed on the planet basically. [so no it definitely wasn't gentle or even something she was aware happening until it did]