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[arealwoman]

Well since this thing's already decided to announce that I'm here it seems pointless to stay silent on it, although I still don't really know how I feel about the whole thing.

[ If you can hear the sound of chopping in the background? That's because she is. She's making a sandwich ]

I find it hard to believe that I'd be the only one to say this but it's crazy. Magic and castle's that can bring you here? It's not right, although neither is a lot that I've known about but that's slightly different still.

And an even better part than that? I've heard that even worse things can happen, although to whoever told me that's not exactly the kind of thing that you want to hear when you've just been whisked off to some strange place. It's not exactly comforting when you know absolutely nothing about any of this stuff.

And for everyone else here? I don't know how you can handle it. Kids running around and things just happening? It's madder by the minute.

[ There's a pause as Christina thinks, and stops chopping ]

I guess what I want to know is how do you handle it? Especially when this kind of thing just doesn't exist? Because I'm already starting to wonder if I've gone crazy, although I certainly couldn't have come up with anything like this. I hope, anyway.

[ And anyone around? Come find her in the kitchen ]

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[spiritusaequitas]

Makes two've us. [he smiles as he moves toward the fridge with a slight limp] I was really beginnin' to wonder fer a little while here.

[arealwoman]

Aye, and somehow it just manages to spring up on you. I'm not holding my breath against any more.

[spiritusaequitas]

Still tryin' to make sense of it, too, then? [funny how whatever he's in the mood for always ends up being in the fridge. he comes up with a plate of cold pizza] I'm Murphy.

[arealwoman]

I only got here yesterday. [ and that probably said everything ] Christina.

[spiritusaequitas]

I haven' been here much longer, m'self. [he sticks the pizza on a paper towel - which is as close as he gets to table manners - and helps himself to a chair a few down from hers]

Where y' from? Sound Scottish.

[arealwoman]

I am. Edinburgh.

[spiritusaequitas]

Nice. ... Y'know a guy named Carson, 'round here? He's Scottish too...

[arealwoman]

Met him earlier. Amy, too. [ And that was it for Scots ]

[spiritusaequitas]

Amy? [he takes another bite of his pizza] There's a name I dunno yet...

[arealwoman]

She's a nice lass.

[spiritusaequitas]

Yeah? Hopefully I'll run int' her then. Could stand t' broaden my connections with sane people.

[he makes a face] Met some guy who said he was a demon. [and by the look of that face, the thought makes him extremely uncomfortable]

[arealwoman]

Wouldn't be a bad thing. I met a psychic and a dragon my first day. [ The psychic was the worst experience out of the two, at least when she'd been 'psychicy' ]

[spiritusaequitas]

A -- Christ, you're serious.

[he puts his face in his hands for a second. Abel had told him this was The Way Of Things and therefore part of God's plan, somehow, but that doesn't make it any easier to accept]

I gotta tell ya, this is not the sorta thing I ever thought I'd be talkin' about in all seriousness. [when he looks up again, though, he does sound vaguely amused] Dragon didn't breathe fuckin' fire at ya, did it?

[arealwoman]

[ With her expression? Definitely ]

I thought all of this was crap, but oh no.

[ She gives a small shake of her head ]

No, although despite it being small it apparently still can.

[spiritusaequitas]

Small? [an amused snort] What's that, then, the size of a Volkswagen?

[arealwoman]

Try two feet.

[spiritusaequitas]

Two feet?! [he laughs, waving his slice of pizza a little in amusement] That ain't a dragon, that's an iguana ate his Wheaties!

[arealwoman]

I wish. [ Sorry but it walked on two feet and was far more dragony, any people (sorry, ponies) kept calling it one ]

[spiritusaequitas]

... just keeps gettin' weirder and weirder 'round here. .... Where were you b'fore you woke up here? Edinburgh?

[arealwoman]

So much that I don't know if it'll stop. [ Oh she hoped so ] New York.

[spiritusaequitas]

New York? Can't say I've been... m'from Boston, m'self. [he'll just quietly steer this into a normal conversation as a favor to both of them]

[arealwoman]

[ So much appreciated ] Never been to Boston, though I never really got out of New York.

[spiritusaequitas]

No? S'busy, but prob'ly not as crowded as New York. ... Waterfront's really somethin', though. And I'd guess you can walk a lot more've Boston without much trouble.

[arealwoman]

I'll add it to my list for after I get out of this.

[spiritusaequitas]

I'd say y'could look me up, but -- I dunno if I'll be in any position to be tour guidin'.