Jane likes to think of herself as a polite person. She has been raised to be gracious and tolerant of the people around her. Certainly, she has never had a problem with manners before, not even in the face of Roxy's drunken mishaps, Dirk's mysterious insinuations or Jake's infuriating obliviousness.
But then, this has been something of an unusual day. Jane did not expect to find herself and her abode transported to some unknown location directly adjacent to a large crater, and nor did she expect the meteor's four former inhabitants – four that she had met, although they insisted two more were nearby somewhere. There had been a blonde girl who spouted polysyballic explanations, the boy in sunglasses who muttered elaborate tangents, the radiant vampire who issued precise statements, and the grinning alien who did not say a word, but who laughed, high and loud.
"But you have a great deal ahead of you," she had been told. "You need to go. Terezi can explain more on the way."
Terezi, it had transpired, was the alien girl, and although her former silence was most definitely broken, nothing which could be called an explanation had been in any way forthcoming. Instead, she dances ahead of Jane on the path, refusing to give a straight answer on anything.
"Could you at least point out to me where we're going?"
"Objection!" Terezi says with a smile. "The prosecution cannot see our destination! She's blind!"
Jane sighs. She had not forgotten this fact, but, considering the prosecution has had no problem with battling imps or deciding their path with coin flips, she is no longer sure it's at all relevant to anything.
"What do we need to do when we arrive?" Jane tries again.
"Objection!" Jane has quickly come to despise those three syllables. "Miss Skaia Skies already knows that must wait until we arrive!"
Jane cannot stand any more of this. She strides forwards and catches Terezi on the shoulder.
"Tell me what's going on!" she shouts. "This is supposed to be my quest, but the only thing you've told me is what to do!"
The grin stretches by a couple more pointed teeth. "Ob –"
Jane cannot bear to hear that word again, so she shuts Terezi up in the only way she can think of: with a kiss.
It works. Terezi stops talking, and turns a bright teal.
"Any objections?" Jane asks, as politely as she can bear.
Terezi shakes her head, and they continue their journey in silence.