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extramural) wrote2014-08-04 06:04 pm
extramural) wrote2014-08-04 06:04 pm
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CONTACT ;;
via locket, shrine, or other
video | voice | text | action
[The letter comes with a small pile of sea glass.]
To The Outsider,
I hope the new year is seeing you well. I'm not used to the new year starting so early in the winter. In my world it is celebrated near the end of the winter, when the winter starts to break but has not yet given way to spring. The tracking of this world's year is strange to me. I'm sure I'll get used to it. It's just strange. It makes me curious how the years are tracked in other worlds.
I've been staying in the small town near here for the last couple weeks and will be for the rest of the winter. Until the end of the second month, February. If you decide you want to visit, come to The Barrel after dark and ask to be shown to Rin Tohsaka's office. She has one above the coffee house and we meet there after dark. She's been teaching me about the magic theory of her world.
If you come closer to the dawn, in the time before the sun rises, I'm usually at the camp I set up. It's a quarter mile or so from here, just on the other side of the windbreak the cliffs make between the ocean and the land. It's a small area, protected by the rocks. Should be easy to find if you walk straight from here toward the town.
I have two friends with me for the winter. Qing Lin is a snakedog that Zuko found this summer at the Treun Tourney. She's very sweet and very protective of ZhenZhen. ZhenZhen is a chocobo that Lumina gave to me last month when I was traveling south. I'm not used to having an actual 'pet' animal around. One that depends on me so much, like a small child would a parent. Even Qing Lin doesn't depend on me entirely for survival. But all Zhen Zhen has known in her short life is humans taking care of her. Choosing when to feed her and when to see to her cleaning. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to teach her to care for herself should something happen to me, though. She's still very young. Only five months now.
Speaking of friends, how are yours? The maidenfish and the wolfhounds. Are they well since we last traveled together? How big are Firtha and Varian now? Are they fully grown yet? If I don't see them this winter, I hope to see them in the spring.
萬
To The Outsider,
I hope the new year is seeing you well. I'm not used to the new year starting so early in the winter. In my world it is celebrated near the end of the winter, when the winter starts to break but has not yet given way to spring. The tracking of this world's year is strange to me. I'm sure I'll get used to it. It's just strange. It makes me curious how the years are tracked in other worlds.
I've been staying in the small town near here for the last couple weeks and will be for the rest of the winter. Until the end of the second month, February. If you decide you want to visit, come to The Barrel after dark and ask to be shown to Rin Tohsaka's office. She has one above the coffee house and we meet there after dark. She's been teaching me about the magic theory of her world.
If you come closer to the dawn, in the time before the sun rises, I'm usually at the camp I set up. It's a quarter mile or so from here, just on the other side of the windbreak the cliffs make between the ocean and the land. It's a small area, protected by the rocks. Should be easy to find if you walk straight from here toward the town.
I have two friends with me for the winter. Qing Lin is a snakedog that Zuko found this summer at the Treun Tourney. She's very sweet and very protective of ZhenZhen. ZhenZhen is a chocobo that Lumina gave to me last month when I was traveling south. I'm not used to having an actual 'pet' animal around. One that depends on me so much, like a small child would a parent. Even Qing Lin doesn't depend on me entirely for survival. But all Zhen Zhen has known in her short life is humans taking care of her. Choosing when to feed her and when to see to her cleaning. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to teach her to care for herself should something happen to me, though. She's still very young. Only five months now.
Speaking of friends, how are yours? The maidenfish and the wolfhounds. Are they well since we last traveled together? How big are Firtha and Varian now? Are they fully grown yet? If I don't see them this winter, I hope to see them in the spring.
萬
[Every couple days, Wan shows up to tend to the shrine and keep it clean of sand and debris. He says hello without expectation of a visit in return. Sometimes he leaves more sea glass or an interesting thing he found that the thinks the Outsider will like. More often he leaves gifts for the Maidenfish and Wolfhounds. Small bits of dried meat as treats and chew toys made of scrap cloth for the dogs. Colorful wooden rings to swim through as a game and small charms made of sea glass for them to wear like necklaces if they're able. (He's not really sure what to get fish, but he's trying).
Sometimes Wan won't say anything and will simply leave a short letter with a random update about who he's met and what stories he's heard lately, give a bow, and then walk away.
He visits because he can, not for anything else.]
Sometimes Wan won't say anything and will simply leave a short letter with a random update about who he's met and what stories he's heard lately, give a bow, and then walk away.
He visits because he can, not for anything else.]
[Wan set the gift he'd brought very carefully on the ground in front of the shrine. He took the time to brew the tea he'd brought as well, then bowed.]
I'm going to be leaving the area in the next couple days. I though we could share some tea if you were up for it. If not, it's okay. The tea set is for you to keep. It was made pretty hastily by the potter El-Melloi II and I found earlier this winter, so it's a little lumpy in places. But it's a decent pot for brewing tea in.
[After that, and without waiting to see if the Outsider showed up, Wan poured himself a cup and started to drink.]
I'm going to be leaving the area in the next couple days. I though we could share some tea if you were up for it. If not, it's okay. The tea set is for you to keep. It was made pretty hastily by the potter El-Melloi II and I found earlier this winter, so it's a little lumpy in places. But it's a decent pot for brewing tea in.
[After that, and without waiting to see if the Outsider showed up, Wan poured himself a cup and started to drink.]
[ This is extremely important. ]
Outsider, you wouldn't happen to know about those children by the seashore, do you?
[ There is really one other black-eyed person she knows and she distinctly remembers giving him courting advice. Her mind is going too all the wrong places. ]
Outsider, you wouldn't happen to know about those children by the seashore, do you?
[ There is really one other black-eyed person she knows and she distinctly remembers giving him courting advice. Her mind is going too all the wrong places. ]
[ That confirmation made it tent times worse. OH, GOD, WHY. ]
I suspected as much. I didn't realize you were that fond of her.
I suspected as much. I didn't realize you were that fond of her.
The harps were rather... effective.
[ Better than Cialis, since thanks to Sam Wilson he knows what that is. ]
They hatched this spring.
[ Better than Cialis, since thanks to Sam Wilson he knows what that is. ]
They hatched this spring.
[ She knows. Being the modest person that she is, she doesn't delve in deeper to that. ]
They were a bit of a nuisance, yes, as much as they were enjoyable.
[ Really, Outsider, are you going to complain? ]
But... hatch?
They were a bit of a nuisance, yes, as much as they were enjoyable.
[ Really, Outsider, are you going to complain? ]
But... hatch?
[ That's probably good, he has no problem with oversharing. ]
Their mother is a siren. They lay eggs.
[ He didn't bang five hundred million ladies, okay, this is all from one go. ]
Their mother is a siren. They lay eggs.
[ He didn't bang five hundred million ladies, okay, this is all from one go. ]
[ That makes sense, if they are part fish and if they're part fish- wait no, Alice doesn't want to think about that when things are starting to get confusing for her. ]
Well, I know. So the bones and her hair... I take it that worked?
[ Please never do, BFF. ]
Well, I know. So the bones and her hair... I take it that worked?
[ Please never do, BFF. ]
Gifts of gold, a bone charm braided in her hair... yes. Though I wonder, now, if I needed them.
[ It's hard to say. ]
[ It's hard to say. ]
I cannot say for her, but I never need those things with Lancelot.
[ It's cute, in a weird, weird way, if she ignores the amount of kids. ]
She must really adore you.
[ It's cute, in a weird, weird way, if she ignores the amount of kids. ]
She must really adore you.
[ He's not blushing. It doesn't occur to him that it might even be a possibility, under other circumstances. But he does make a slight noise like a clearing of his throat. ]
I suppose we will see, will we not?
I suppose we will see, will we not?
"We will see?" Doesn't she love you?
[ For her, intimacy happens in two ways: prostitution or love. Anything else hasn't occurred to her. ]
[ For her, intimacy happens in two ways: prostitution or love. Anything else hasn't occurred to her. ]
[ an uncomfortable pause. ]
Why not? You should ask, I mean-
[ you're an old, old god. Even the elves had family and she's sure they didn't pop up. ]
Why not? You should ask, I mean-
[ you're an old, old god. Even the elves had family and she's sure they didn't pop up. ]
I am not used to having this investment in the world, in people.
[ And now that he does... now that he does, the Void is creeping in ever-closer. ]
[ And now that he does... now that he does, the Void is creeping in ever-closer. ]
Neither am I, but it isn't that all bad.
[ She knows. As weird as it is there's Wan unknown number of children by him and the siren, there is a genuine concern for him.
That's lost in cultural differences. ]
Is it?
[ She knows. As weird as it is there's Wan unknown number of children by him and the siren, there is a genuine concern for him.
That's lost in cultural differences. ]
Is it?
Ah, you really are like my Cheshire Cat. No way is ever certain with you.
[ She doesn't sound as annoyed as she would be with the cat, only fond. It's why she's so fond of the Outsider. ]
[ She doesn't sound as annoyed as she would be with the cat, only fond. It's why she's so fond of the Outsider. ]
Few things are ever certain, Alice.
[ But he sounds fond as well. ]
[ But he sounds fond as well. ]
They are.
[ This is an odd conversation, one that's already mortified her, but if she didn't feel so comfortable with him, she would have kept it short. ]
Sometimes uncertain things become clearer, in due time.
[ This is an odd conversation, one that's already mortified her, but if she didn't feel so comfortable with him, she would have kept it short. ]
Sometimes uncertain things become clearer, in due time.
Perhaps I will ask. That does tend to make things less uncertain, should the other party be telling the truth.
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