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❝Gal Cecil❞ Gailardia Galan Gardios ([personal profile] hopelessdreamer) wrote in [community profile] queenofheartsrp2011-07-24 02:25 pm

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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.]

[identity profile] no-hometown.livejournal.com 2011-07-31 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[She notes the pause, but it doesn't seem like personal recognition. This woman clearly didn't know her--she assumes it is her name that must be familiar in some way, in her world.] And what is your name?

That's more or less correct. People do return home sometimes, but not by their own means. Either the Queen decides to return them, or this place is unstable by nature and loses its grip on us. I, however, have been here some few months.

I've also known people who went home only to be brought back here again, some time later.

[identity profile] no-hometown.livejournal.com 2011-08-01 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sephiroth doesn't comment on the supposed rudeness or a lack thereof.] A pleasure to meet you, Gal.

I wish I could say with more certainty how or why such a thing happens, but the Gardens are not stable. People appear and disappear without warning, and the landscape changes from day to day. We can make things and alter that landscape ourselves--simply by thinking of them, using a certain kind of soil to build.

It is an odd, unreal place.

[identity profile] no-hometown.livejournal.com 2011-08-05 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
There are barriers below and above, in the earth and in the sky. In every other direction, there are areas known as the Wild Places. They can be entered, but they are disorienting and even more unstable than the Gardens proper. You can lose yourself in them, and there can be unpleasant side effects to time spent there.

Eventually, you'll always return--or be returned--to the Gardens.