[AU] an evening like any other
Nov. 21st, 2021 07:15 pmSunset's long come and gone, the horses are settled for the night, but it's too early by far to sleep. Susan Delgado's in the bar, curled up on the couch near the fireplace, a basket of golden straw nearby and a second one with dark leather strips beside it.
Bit by bit, she braids the golden straw, shaping it into a long plait that coils back into the basket on the floor. It's a contrast of sorts to her own sun-gold hair, which as usual she'd unbraided and brushed into a long smooth fall for the evening when she changed from her work-clothes into a simple chambray dress in a light denim blue.
Susan's humming softly under her breath as she works.
Bit by bit, she braids the golden straw, shaping it into a long plait that coils back into the basket on the floor. It's a contrast of sorts to her own sun-gold hair, which as usual she'd unbraided and brushed into a long smooth fall for the evening when she changed from her work-clothes into a simple chambray dress in a light denim blue.
Susan's humming softly under her breath as she works.
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Date: 2023-03-13 01:12 pm (UTC)She’s counting on her fingers now, ticking off as she does so as not to forget. “And those that ye’d think are animals, but who speak and are as smart as any person, say true. Sir Reepicheep, for one, he’s a Mouse, and Jah-lila a red unicorn.”
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Date: 2023-03-13 01:39 pm (UTC)It's all more than he can quite absorb, after the shock of the last week. He shakes his head and rubs at his temple, unsure even how to respond.
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Date: 2023-03-13 02:14 pm (UTC)Not sure how well lip-reading could work with a mouse or unicorn, but I guess we'll see how it goes.
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Date: 2023-03-13 02:21 pm (UTC)"Or mayhap Kaylee'd have some trick ye could use. She's that clever, she is, and those of Serenity have things I'd have never thought possible."
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Date: 2023-03-13 02:46 pm (UTC)And maybe he won't see the mouse or unicorn, anyway.
What's Serenity?
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Date: 2023-03-13 02:49 pm (UTC)Talking mice? Spaceships? Unicorns? His head is spinning.
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Date: 2023-03-13 02:54 pm (UTC)He looks more than a little glazed, as though he's taken a blow to the head, and Susan bites her lip. "Would'ee want another glass?" she ventures, checking the level of his lemonade and retreating to simpler things.
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:06 pm (UTC)You're impressively well-adjusted about all of this. I feel like the top of my head is about to come off.
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:17 pm (UTC)On reading his note, she looks up at him with a smile. "I've been here near a year," she explains. More than a year since she died, now, but she's aware it'd been some months between that and her arrival. Time is a face on the water, say true. "I were just as overwhelmed at first, mayhap worse."
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:26 pm (UTC)How he can be conversing (so to speak) with a dead girl in a place connecting all the worlds, where the dead and living mingle and the impossible is possible, is bizarre in the extreme to him.
He lifts his refreshed glass to her in a toast, then writes again.
I guess most people would be. It's not like anything I've ever heard of before. The religious zealots and philosophers back home would lose their minds if they knew about it. (If there were any left.)
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:32 pm (UTC)"Religious - oh, ye have the Jesus-man followers in yer world too?" she asks. "We have some of them, and the Manni, but mostly they keep to themselves. The Manni ken doors, though."
Susan shrugs. "I've not met a philosopher. Some few who've been taught of it, aye, or who ken it through reading, but I've not known anyone who that's all they did."
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:44 pm (UTC)He pauses there, thinking of the other half of his dream. He'd been pushed from the heights, and fell into a cornfield. And in the cornfield...
Sorry to change subjects, but I'm curious. You know of the dark man. Have you ever heard of someone called Mother Abagail?
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:54 pm (UTC)"There were a note, I think," she murmurs, her gaze a little distant as she tries to remember. "Eddie said Jake found it. They weren't sure if it had aught to do with them or not. It said the dark man were in the west, and... and the old woman was Abagail."
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Date: 2023-03-13 05:15 pm (UTC)Seems like I should definitely try to meet this Eddie.
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Date: 2023-03-13 06:04 pm (UTC)On the other hand, he's been starved for company, and it's inexpressibly good to sit here and communicate with another human being.
Not if you would mind. I'm already asking a lot of you.
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Date: 2023-03-13 07:29 pm (UTC)Then if you wouldn't mind, and if he has a moment, that would be great. Thank you.
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Date: 2023-03-13 07:49 pm (UTC)Susan makes her way past the end of the bar and down a hallway, quickly vanishing from sight. She's gone for a few minutes, mayhap about as long as it'd take to explain things in very brief, and when she comes back, she's not alone.
She's keeping pace at the side of an older Black woman in a wheelchair, pushed by a dark-haired man whose sharp gaze misses absolutely nothing, although his smile is easy and warm. A close look might reveal that the older woman's gaze is just as keen.
"This your new friend, sugar?" the woman says, as the small group reaches him. "Introduce us."
Susan smiles at Nick, as reassuringly as she can. "Susannah, Eddie, this is Sai Nick Andros, of - of the world ye've seen some of. Nick, these are Susannah and Eddie Dean of New York, gunslingers of the line of Eld."
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Date: 2023-03-13 07:59 pm (UTC)It's really nice of you to come say hello. Like Susan said, I'm Nick. Hope I'm not interrupting.
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Date: 2023-03-13 08:09 pm (UTC)"You're not," Eddie says, peering over Susannah's shoulder to read. "Interrupting, that is. Besides, Susan here says she told you we had a little bit of a jaunt through your Topeka after the flu from hell ripped through. And that you've had a particular dream that's along our lines of interest. Yeah?"
Susannah makes an exasperated sound. "We're not going to jaw about all this with me looking up at you three," she orders. "Susan, how about you lead the way over to your couch and we settle down there?"
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