[002] but oh my love don't forsake me;

[commandsthewind]

[Filtered as far away from England/Arthur Kirkland as she can make it.]

[It's all written because she doesn't trust her voice so much, because really nothing shakes her... except this. This is a thing she has no word for. Her usual neat and precise hand writing is a hastily mess.]

Forgive me if this sounds like lunacy, and troubling those here with such a thing, but I have tried to reason this out and I cannot seem too... find an answer by myself. I'm at my wits end with it.

Has anyone had someone appear that... knows them. I understand my own title goes before me, and that many of you know me purely through text and later writings. You can never claim to know me personally. I mean... has someone ever appeared to you, and known you so completely. Spoken of things that you will never speak of to another, claimed things that are... well, your secrets in point of fact. Only you have never seen this person, you have no memory of them. Not a single thing. From their name to their title. 

I know literally nothing of this man. And what he claims otherwise is... he claims to be my country. My England. I cannot fathom such a thing lest it is a trick. It would be a sick one at the very least, given that I am myself married to my country, to give me a husband when I have neither need nor want of one. 

Does anyone at all know anything of this? Anything at all. I have been told that people do have their memories removed.

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[ruined_jaw]

Another one of those, huh? There was some bloke a few months back who claimed to be Italy.

It's entirely possibly that he's from some world where the countries of the world have physical bodies. I know it doesn't make sense, but such is the way of things here, as I'm sure you've noticed.

[commandsthewind]

I find that even harder to be believe. Italy is less unified then England was during the wars.

That brings me no comfort, I'm afraid. For my country to be one man to which I am accountable to.

[ruined_jaw]

Well, I can't say I met the man personally while he was here, but that there's more than one of them suggests that there's something to it, at least. Apparently we've played host to a personification of the United States, as well.

You'll run into that a lot here, Your Majesty. You're really best off getting used to it, as difficult as that might be. Strange things are often the order of the day in Paradisa.

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[save_the_souls]

...Oh no, not this again. [FLASH BACKING TO AMERICA]

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[commandsthewind]

What do you mean 'not again'?

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[save_the_souls]

A long time ago, there was someone here that claimed to be America - a country that will exist in the future.

Though I admit I always thought he was a bit...touched.

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[kalinda]

That's strange. Admittedly. [A sigh, a bit of a pause.] But I am sure if talking ponies and large red men exist, then why not anthropomorphisms of countries?

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[commandsthewind]

.... When put like that, I suppose you are right. But that any man should know so much of me...

I have done much, killed enough to make me ill, to make sure no man has such a claim.

[kalinda]

My condolences. [A breath.] There are many who know how to get inside your head around here. If anything, one's secrets are what the castle itself enjoys playing with.

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[20thcentury]

I've never heard of someone actually being the personification of a country, but similar things happen where I'm from. Personifications of ideas made flesh.

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[commandsthewind]

... This is common then? Personifications like...

[pause, she's actually trying to think of anything that she knows that is similar.] As in the pagans believe the Zeus was the God of Thunder, and Athena the Goddess of Wisdom?

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[20thcentury]

Oh, something like that. More in that they're the spirit of the age they were born into, rather than an element or literal concept.

For example, little old me is the Spirit of the 20th Century.

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[hedonic]

That sounds like quite the elaborate attempt to drag you beneath the sheets. A stalker, perhaps?

[commandsthewind]

[You get a prize. She hadn't actually though of that yet. Great.]

There are younger, prettier and far more idiotic women to try that on. I have been queen far too long for that sort of nonsense.

[hedonic]

Oh, a queen is it? [ Guess that explains the weird 'married to country' commentary. But a queen without a king is something she's familiar with and can definitely get behind. ]

Well than all the more reason that a man would try to take advantage of it. Even when not in her own country, a proper queen commands power and grace wherever she walks. Which is exactly why you ought to teach such a brazen fool a lesson.

I assume none from your court are here with you? Or were you lucky enough to bring friends?

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[the_effect_she_has]

[Oh, well dang. Katniss's lips press together.]

Yes - probably not as much as a Queen - but I thought that was the cost of being a celebrity. People knowing things about your life that you'd rather not know about yourself.

[Her lips pressed even further together.] You ... going to be okay? Need to have this guy, you know, kept away?

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[commandsthewind]

... This is slightly different to being a celebrity, Katniss. I... did not do this for pleasure and wealth. The secrets they have spoken of... they are secrets of such a personal nature, and a state nature as well. No one but my... closest would ever know such things.

[... that reply, for whatever reason, warmed her more then she could possibly say.] I think I shall be fine. He's... well, upon seeing me he knelt and called me by my title, recited poetry at me no less. I do not think I shall need to worry on that account.

It's less being known. People here's reactions are odd enough, but no different to home. It's that... someone could of taken the thought of someone so important from me.

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[onlyanapple]

Oh wonderful. The people who think they're countries are coming back.

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[commandsthewind]

... Forgive me this, but he dressed as ah... many of you do. [that is to say, half undressed as far as Elizabeth was concerned.] But spoke of things that were in my time. At the very least, as far as I can tell, he's exceedingly old.

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[untilmydarknessgoes]

Ever considered the possibility you're looney tunes?

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[commandsthewind]

Forgive me... what is 'looney tunes'?

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[shrugs_a_lot]

[Elizabeth get out of his head... Too bad he doesn't know it's her. At some point she's just describing his awkward relationship with someone that claims to be his friend, while he had no clue of who the guy was, he just knows him too well for comfort. Anyway, he gets it.]

Do you need someone to take care of this guy? [Not in the good way.]

[commandsthewind]

[No, Elizabeth will invade your mind. It's what she does.]

No, I think not. It's quite alright my lord. He is good to me.

... It's just distressing for so many other reasons. [but she takes the offer to heart, at least.]

/dictated, hope this isn't too late!

[cricketycricket]

Oh, dear, that is curious. I'm sorry, but the only thing that's immediately coming to mind is a parallel dimension, some sort of instance where it's possible for a concept or an idea to have a concrete personification. I know that at one point, a couple of years ago, we had a resident who was the personification of Greed. We also had someone, if I recall, who liked to call himself America, though we never really spoke personally.

Do I, then, perchance, have the honour of addressing Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth?

[commandsthewind]

You do, it's a pleasure my lord to speak to another that knows me.

Is it common for these ... types of people to appear? [even though she probably wouldn't care as much. Because everyone else was immaterial to England in the end.]