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[this entire thing screams of the kind of prank the Emperor would pull, and she managed to find her clothes and sword, so she's not as worried as she could be. Still, the tall young woman keeps a careful hand near her belt as she crouches down to greet the cat that approaches her, not noticing the mirror at first.]

Where did you come from? One of His Majesty's...?

[she unrolls the scroll with gloved hands, frowning at it.]

Queen of--there aren't any Queens, so what--

[a metallic clanking sound interrupts her, and she turns, instantly on guard. She relaxes, however, when the source of the noise comes into view. The metal dog waves its tail creakily and sits down on its haunches, one of the few stray robots left over from Antikythera's unintentional invasion.]

[The woman's expression changes from suspicion to fascination in a matter of seconds, the scroll forgotten. The cat regards her with an offended flick of its ears and wanders off.]

Look at you. You are gorgeous. Could use some oil on those joints, and a good polish, but...what kind of motor are you running on? It must be tiny, and everything's fit together with such precision--

[she crouches by the automaton, reaching out to lift a paw, pat its head, tilting her own to study it from different angles. So much for being concerned about getting kidnapped.]

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There's more of them under the Gardens. Uh, which is what this place is called.

[woah okay disembodied voice. She jumps a little, looking around, and spots--]

A...mirror?

[a mirror with a face in it. A young girl's face that looks...unlike any young girl she's ever seen, really. Sorry, Jessica, you're going to get a familiar-looking stare.]

...yeah. Um, this is how we communicate. It's sort of like a videophone, only with magic. You can do sound only or text if you want to.

[What stare there is absolutely nothing to stare at so therefore there is no staring going on. Jessica: Powers to bend reality!]

Uh, I'm Jessica Boyette, by the way.

Wait, communicate? [she hopes the dog won't leave while she investigates, she wants to examine it more...but she'll tear herself away to crouch in front of the mirror.]

So you're saying you're--another person, somewhere else. [long-distance communication...she's impressed. They haven't managed that yet where she's from. She taps the mirror curiously, finding it solid. She wants to ask about this girl's strange coloration, too, but she's too polite for that, so she'll stick to discussion of plant-based communication for now.] Magic? That's the same thing as fonons, really, so I don't see what the difference is...it doesn't look like any kind of machine at all, though. How does this vine carry your voice and image?

Sorry, Jessica--you can call me Gal. Gal Cecil. [she sees no point in giving her full, real name unless it's absolutely necessary, and rank means nothing in the middle of the wilderness. Besides, this is the name she's gone by for years now.] As you can see, I'm...a little out of my element here. What exactly is going on?

Edited 2011-07-29 16:14 (UTC)

In the fortress right now, yeah. It's near the center of the area.

...fonons? I've never heard that before. It's a magic plant. You'll find out pretty quickly that that's the best answer you're gonna get here. It's a pain in the butt.

Gal, huh? Good to meet you. Sort of.

We're... not totally sure what's going on. The basic gist is, we've all been kidnapped from different worlds and thrown together in this ridiculous place and we're supposed to fall in love and hook up with people. And it's only girls here. I'll give you a minute to get over how totally ridiculous the whole thing is.

A fortress...that sounds like a nice safe place to be.

[that makes her pause, though.] You've never heard of fonons? Really? [it doesn't seem like a joke, either...] They're...the particles that make up all matter, so that's kind of hard to believe...

You know, the first time someone told me that, I almost laughed. Now that I've heard it a few more, I'm actually starting to worry. I tried pinching myself, but that didn't work.

Well, that's the idea. It's usually kind of safe here, but occasionally it gets sort of unpleasant for those of us who aren't supersoldiers or whatever.

...like... atoms? Those aren't magic.

Oh, so you've gotten the welcome spiel already?

No, fonons and atoms are different. Fonons are what hold atoms together, they're pretty much pure energy.

[a small humorless laugh.]

Looks like it...at least, it's less plausible that you're all feeding me a story...no offense, but this whole thing is-- [she gestures a bit helplessly] pretty much outside of my realm of experience. Different worlds: in history they tried to build a tower and a rocket once, to reach them, but it never succeeded.

Like... the charge? Or is this some new quantum thing?

Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable. It's the kind of thing that really shouldn't exist, period. But since I'm here and all...

They're closer to...elements. [she scratches her cheek. Someone who didn't know about fonons...but she doesn't mind explaining.]

There are seven. Shadow, Gnome, Sylph, Undine, Efreet, Rem, and Lorelei. They correspond to darkness, earth, wind, water, fire, light, and sound, respectively.

At least we're all in the same boat, right?

...I'm getting the feeling the place you're from has very different physics from the place I'm from. Not that this is a huge surprise, really.

Yeah, I guess the company's pretty good. I still feel kinda bad about, y'know, delighting in the captivity of others or whatever, but... [shrug]

It's a bit of a surprise to me, since I was under the impression physics were universal...

Hey, don't feel bad. No one wants to be alone, especially in a situation like this.

If it were, this place wouldn't even exist.

[She offers a brief almost-smile] Yeah... I'm just really good at feeling bad.

Well, at least that explanation makes some sort of sense.

[oh boy, low self esteem. Time for big sister mode.]

If you need a reminder to feel good every once in a while, I don't mind giving it to you.

Edited 2011-08-03 16:57 (UTC)

It's possible there's some kind of unknown set of rules that'd explain everything, or something like... dimensions or something, but we don't really have the tools or knowhow to figure it out.

[Whoa wait what] Hah. I'm not sure you know me well enough to pull that off. Not that I don't appreciate the thought.

I'm used to learning new things about the world, but they usually fit in pretty well with the old stuff. At this point, though, I guess the only thing that's certain is "anything is possible".

Unless you object to getting to know each other better, I don't see why that'll be a problem.

[she's being sincere, too. she's just naturally friendly.]

Pretty much, yeah. It's enough to make you want to bang your head on the wall.

Just saying, I don't think you have enough evidence to make a really compelling argument on my behalf. [Her mouth quirks in a flash of amusement.]

Don't mind me; I'm just in a crappy mood lately.

Hey, don't worry about it. And I think you're underestimating me. Let's see...

Well, you've been friendly so far, and you gave me the welcome speech and were pretty patient when I gave you looks like you were crazy. I think that gives you a few points, at least.

I'm used to people thinking I'm crazy. Back home, anyway.

But yeah, I wrote up a brochure that mostly goes over stuff. It's in the library if you wanted to read up on things.

Don't let that kind of stuff bother you. You seem like a pretty intelligent young woman.

Library? How do I find that?

You can be smart and crazy. But yeah, I'm used to it.

Ask a cat or a bird. Things... sort of move around randomly here, so even if you've got an idea of the layout, you can get lost. Just another fantastic feature of this place.

[oh boy, does she know you can. But she won't comment.]

And the...animals understand when you ask? I'm not Aritto...

Yeah. Magic. [That tone of voice is usually reserved for something scatological.]

Magic is more or less science where I'm from, so that's something else entirely.

Nothing scientific about the stuff here, let me tell you. What would you call something that's total bullcrap and shouldn't work but works anyway?

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