I read about Valentine's Day. [ Because who cares about Separation anyway Valentine's Day is more important. She has her priorities. ]

It is a day... for lovers. Am I correct? Or can it be celebrated with friends? What about those in between? Oh, I don't know what I'm saying. Keep yourself together, Kougyoku! A-anyway. Who is this Saint Valentine? What sort of gifts does one give on this day? Has anyone had any... pleasant experiences with it? That is, I mean - I'm just wondering how proper celebration of Valentine's Day is done! Th-that's all.

And, if, anyone is interested in watching the fireworks with me... Ahah, nevermind. [ She's too shy to offer. ]

Judal is not allowed to reply to this.

[ The voice is hushed and small, but no less direct for it. ]

Reporting. Met with Ikari-kun and the pilot of Unit-02. [ Kaworu Nagisa, the Fifth Child - she omits him, as something unsettles her still. ] Housing was located, according to instructions. No status problems. I will wait.

[ Silence, as if she forgot to end the recording, until: ]

Requesting information on where to buy clothes. My plugsuit is not useful here.

Hi, I'm Shu Ouma. You can call me Shu.

Nice to see you all.

[After Shu's self introduction there was an awkward silence lingering in the air.  The silence made him assume he messed up somehow. Shu's  completely nervous about showing his face to the network.  ]

Um.

[At this point he'd pretty much be okay with saying anything as long as it filled in the silence and didn't make him look bad. Here goes nothing.]

Does anyone here want to play a word game? 

The rules are easy.  All you have to do is take the last letter of a word and make a new word with it.  

For example "Happy"  ends in "Y" so you can only pick words that start with "Y". A word like "Yard" would work well I guess.

There's a couple more rules but they're simple. You're only allowed to pick nouns and you can't repeat words that were said already.  That's all.

Is anyone interested?

[ The video feed opens up showing what looks almost like a traditional snowman wearing a scarf. It has pebbles for eyes and a mouth, but instead of a smile, it's in a frown. It has no carrot for a nose, but bananas... no, banana-mangos on the side of its head. Are those supposed to be horns? And the mun is sorry. She doesn't know how to draw banana-mangos. ]

...au, au, au♪

[ Snowmen don't make that kind of noise, but for some reason, Rika's horned snowman does. Rika, who's almost a head shorter than the snowman, leans out from behind it, flashing a big smile at the feed. It's the biggest, happiest smile she has made since first arriving in Exsilium. She's also bundled up in some new warm clothes more suitable for cold weather. ]

Nipa~☆

I didn't think I would ever see snow again! Before I arrived here, it was the summer season in my world. It felt endless.

[ It might sound like an over exaggeration, but it really did last years for her. She bounds up to her tablet, scooping it up in her gloves and switching it to audio. She only wanted to use video to show off her snowman. ]

If anyone wants to come out and play, we can have a snowball fight. To make it even more exciting, maybe we can have a penalty at the end for the loser.

[ And before she ends the feed, she has one last message. ]

And thank you for the stuffed penguin, Santa Claus. [ OR SHOULD I SAY SAYAKA CLAUS. ]