"Exactly." Her smile grew a little wider, and was joined by another chuckle. "We call ourselves the "warrior race", but there's more to Saiyans than just fighting. Hell, there's more to strength than the size of your muscles. If battle power were all that mattered, our parents and grandparents would've wiped out the Tuffle as Oozaru long ago, but we're still here, fighting." A part of her was truly glad that someone else understood her point of view. There were far too many idealists who thought they could simply stop the fighting because they so wished, but fighting was inherent to life. One fought to live. One fought to eat. One fought because it was fun.
The fighting wasn't going to stop until there was nothing left to fight over.
"While we're on the subject," Rosemary veered the conversation off and away from her own people for a moment. "Who was it that named the planet... Earth, of all things? Were they just running out of ideas, or was "dirt" the only thing they could think of at the time?" She chuckled, and her shoulders and tail shook in kind with her laughter. "Or, do the worms secretly rule, and named the entire planet for their home?"
Phakk couldn't help but giggle a little at Rosemary's worm idea. That was definitely a thing, somewhere out in this wide, wide universe. "No... I don't think it's the worms." She smiles, shaking her head a little at the idea. "But... I'm not sure. Then again, Plant is called Plant. Earth, Plant, maybe when it comes down to it it's just based on what people place more importance on? Of course, Earth has other names. Terra. Gaia. It depends on the culture, really." Phakk was mostly just realising all of this as she went, nodding along with her own words. It seemed to make sense, right? Then again, that made her wonder.
"...Carcear. Namek. Arcose. Now those are curious, no? Distinct names for a planet. Granted, I think Namek is the name of the sort of... spirit, in Namekian culture? Sort of like giving their planet a personality. The other two, however... I don't know. Maybe it's something only time really remembers anymore. Or, maybe, it's just a really simple and banal answer. Wouldn't that be funny? Arcose. All intimidating, but it actually means like... ice. Or something?" The idea of it all has her giggling again, shaking her head somewhat, before the Shinjin comes to a pause. "Oh." She murmurs, looking out at the end of the street they were on. A... ramen restaurant. How... oddly fitting? Turning back to Rosemary, she simply shrugs. Unsure of what to do now.
And it was at that moment that she felt her powers begin to act up, finally sated on the energies of hell, and the moment Rosemary finished talking the girl quickly needed to bolt away.
It was easy to get caught up in the conversation, and laugh along with Phakk and her musing about planet names. How long had they spent talking and walking, anyways? Time was a suspiciously difficult thing to tell here, she felt. Sometimes, she could spend what felt like days before she wake up back on Plant, but at others, it was only a few minutes.
Speaking of which, the faint hum of an alarm at the back of her mind warned the hybrid that this particular jaunt across reality was soon to come to an end. She could already feel her senses dull and sharpen at once. She could feel the blanket draped over her even as she walked entirely upright beside the other woman. It was time to go.
"Ah, shit." Rosemary exclaimed with a soft breath. "I've got a few moments, at best, before I wake up." She deigned to give an explanation, not when time was short. "Come find me in Sadala some time, won't you?" She offered the woman a fading smile as sleep both took and left her at once, and the landscape of Hell all around her began to fade from her sight. Likewise, the hybrid's metaphysical body began to turn translucent, and was unceremoniously blown away like smoke on a subtle breeze.
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