Nephry Osborne (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silversnowfall) wrote2011-12-06 01:23 am
silversnowfall) wrote2011-12-06 01:23 am
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While I can't speak for other worlds, in Auldrant we celebrate the "new year" in the middle of winter, shortly after the longest night. It's a bit different from the way things work here...but regardless, I am curious as to how many other worlds share a similar tradition.
[filtered to the Auldrant folks with whom she has made conversation]
Would you like to have dinner, at this house, for the new year? We have some new arrivals, and I think it might be good for all of us to visit with each other. ...You are, of course, free to decline. It's just a thought.
[and further filtered, away from Asch and Luke]
...And to an extent I thought we might...be able to celebrate. Even if time here is a bit different.
[Then? Then she's out and about town, doing things. She'll stop at the bakery, the grocery store...briefly at the battledome, pausing at the programming station but not really doing anything there. Once, she thinks about visiting Professor Nebilim, but she can't be sure of how late the woman stays at the school after class, and she wouldn't want to interrupt.
In short, she's a little bit of everywhere, ending that evening at Good Spirits. For a change of pace. And a drink, of course. Facades can be such a strain on the system.]
[filtered to the Auldrant folks with whom she has made conversation]
Would you like to have dinner, at this house, for the new year? We have some new arrivals, and I think it might be good for all of us to visit with each other. ...You are, of course, free to decline. It's just a thought.
[and further filtered, away from Asch and Luke]
...And to an extent I thought we might...be able to celebrate. Even if time here is a bit different.
[Then? Then she's out and about town, doing things. She'll stop at the bakery, the grocery store...briefly at the battledome, pausing at the programming station but not really doing anything there. Once, she thinks about visiting Professor Nebilim, but she can't be sure of how late the woman stays at the school after class, and she wouldn't want to interrupt.
In short, she's a little bit of everywhere, ending that evening at Good Spirits. For a change of pace. And a drink, of course. Facades can be such a strain on the system.]
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There's something more to it, that you would prefer not to share. [She seems to realize how that might have sounded.] And I'm not asking.
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[And she really shouldn't be hiding all of it. But with Mithos there, and Nephry's own experience with him, let alone the others from her world... she always feels compelled to, somehow.]
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I see. ...Though if you ever would like to tell that story in full, I would be very interested in hearing it.
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[Though Nephry herself, may have to prompt it again somehow.]
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... but he had attacked her, so ... perhaps she did deserve to know just what she had been up against. Surely Nephry, at least, could be trusted to remain ... rational in face of it. Even if it was hard to believe.]
... one could say that he was the reason the worlds were separated from one another in the first place.
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But didn't you say it had been thousands of years?
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[She should elaborate more, but for the moment doesn't have the words. She'll let that sink in for a moment, anyway.]
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I meant...to warn you, in return. Someone is here, now, who caused quite a bit of trouble in my world as well. He's asked for a truce...and I'd like to hope he will hold up his end of it. I don't think he's as openly dangerous as your acquaintance is.
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How can he be so young and live for...millennia?
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...There are more problems in your world than most people would feel they could ever handle. [Her respect for Raine, already considerable, is growing.]
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[Well then what did you mean, Nephry?]
...It's only that I...I respect that you could handle so many things with the potential to be...devastating.
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We had a lot on our plate, but... I do feel that it's mostly thanks to my students and companions that we were able to strive forward. If... events hadn't happened in the way they had, I... don't imagine the outcome would be even close to the same.
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But they did happen that way.
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