3-choo! (now with real sneezing!)

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Phone

Everybody, I got my rune back in the mail today! I can use it to send you places, so if anybody ever wants help going somewhere you can just ask me! Then school and work and the ice cream place won't seem so far away anymore, if you think they're far away. Oh, also I---ah......ah.....ah.........

[a long moment of silence.]

....ah-choo!!

[This is followed by the sound of someone dropping the telephone! and then failing to hang up. Oops?]

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[Hello Mayfield. How's life today? Are you at home? At work? School? Going shopping, maybe? Wherever you are, there is now also a Viki. She might even have landed on you! Don't worry though, she's not hurt!

Feel free to run into her wherever, whenever, however! Hope she doesn't embarrass you.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[A blink.]

You don't normally see dogs 'round th' worlds you've been to, I take it.

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[waffuport]

Oh there's dogs in towns sometimes, and there's monsters that are kind of dog-like, and I remember there was a giant wolf monster thing when Millie and I were fighting bad guys together, but that was the first time I got to be at a castle with its own dogs! They were really cute, too.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat's facial expression just oozes with "I stand corrected!"]

Huh. Pets of th' royalty?

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[waffuport]

Royalty? I don't think there was any royalty there. They were guard dogs though! Really friendly guard dogs.

[In other words they were useless.]

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[About as useless as guard machines!]

Huh. Ain't castles usually built as strongholds for royal an' noble families? What was th' castle for, then?

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[waffuport]

Ummm.....I never asked. I think Thomas ran the castle, people listened to him sometimes. But he never said he was royalty or anything.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Huh. A Castle without royalty an' friendly guard dogs. Kinda peculiar.

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[waffuport]

Oh, I think Caesar said that before! About the dogs, I mean.

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[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Well, I imagine they ain't gonna do much good guardin' th' castle if they're friendly to everybody.

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[waffuport]

That's true. But then, if someone bad comes up then other people can stop them, right?

Sorry about the delay! LJ's notify is sleeping on the job.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat considers that for a moment, then shrugs slightly.]

Reckon so.

[He really hopes that the castle's people post guards at least.]

Earlier you were sayin' there's a war goin' on wherever you go. What was happenin' at that there Budehuc place?

LJ's gotta fix that sleep schedule.

[waffuport]

Oh, um. We were fighting somewhere east of Budehuc! I remember there were some ruins and the whole army went there. The castle was always safe.

[So much safer than the other places she's been. Weren't they fighting a friend of hers though...? She can't remember exactly, but it brings a slight frown to her face nonetheless.]

It certainly does! XD

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat picks up on the frown on Viki's face. Though in his mind, he's thinking there's something she's not telling him.]

Somethin' th' matter?

[waffuport]

Hm? Oh--nothing! Nothing's wrong.

[She shakes off the frown pretty easily, resuming her usual smile. Whatever was bothering her can wait for some other time.]

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Alright, then.

[It'd be rude of him to pry on something like that.]

Well—what did ya'll call th' country you lived in? An' th' nation it was a part of?

[Gesturing to himself.]

I reckon you ain't too familiar with th' idea of star systems, but before I came here, I lived in th' Gurhal System, on th' planet Parum. My original homeworld's called Coral, though.

[waffuport]

You live in stars?? Wow wow, that's amazing!

Um, I've been to lots of different countries, but the one I was in before this was.....the Island Nations? Yeah, that sounds right. And I met Caesar in the Grasslands and Millie in the Jowston City-States, only I think the City-States are called something else now.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Naw, I don't live in a star.

[Gat chuckles at that idea.]

A star system is th' star an' any worlds that's orbitin' it. Th' world you live on is part of one, with' th' sun bein' its own star.

An' th' Gurhal System has three worlds of its own. Parum's one of 'em.

[waffuport]

Ohhhh. I didn't know that! I've never seen that many worlds before, that's amazing!

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

So that'd mean you've spent most of your time in various places back home, an' that Mayfield would be th' second world you've been to?

[waffuport]

Yeah, yeah, that sounds right. Other worlds are a lot prettier than I expected.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat looks outside for a moment.]

They can be, yeah. Planets can be pretty diverse if they've got a good biosphere goin'. Even th' ones that don't, sometimes.

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Biosphere? [She follows his gaze outside, but the meaning of the word still eludes her.]

I'm glad they're diverse, though. If they were all the same it'd be kind of boring.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Oh. Whoops. He's got to remember that Viki isn't from a world as advanced as his ...]

Biosphere means th' whole environment of th' planet, an' all things livin' in it.

[Or at least, that's part of the definition.]

[waffuport]

Oohhh. You're really smart, Mister Gatt!

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat chuckles slightly, looking down for a moment.]

That sorta thing's more common knowledge in my time. I don't consider myself all that smart.