first spell ☥ video ☥ open to both courts.

[powerful]

( The fresh-faced teenager that appears to the network should -- repeat, should -- be full of life and exuberance. She's a very pretty face, with sunshine-blonde hair and bright blue eyes, and her expression is dripping with irritation, frustration, rage; it's tinged with fear, too. But there's also something darker, lurking beneath the surface, flickering behind those eyes. )

I don’t appreciate being black-bagged. ( She scowls into the locket. ) In fact, I don’t appreciate any of this. The kidnapping, the dragging me here, the fact that I can’t seem to leave despite my best efforts... The way every single thing in my family’s book is conveniently just slightly out of the range of reasonable difficulty with only one person... You brought me here alone on purpose, didn't you? What is this? What are you planning?

( Then, in that darker tone, as her face takes on an almost shadowed expression, she murmurs. ) Do you have my sister?

Comments

[Video]

[wildgift]

I didn't come up with it.

Well-met. I'm Stefen.

[Video]

[powerful]

If you ever meet the person who did, you should tell them they need to work on their approachability or something.

Yeah, well-met, or something. This place sucks. But the people don't seem too bad so far. The normal ones, anyway. The fairies can bite me.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I'll make certain I do.

I'm sorry, this place does what?

[Video]

[powerful]

It... Sucks? Is the opposite of fun?

[Video]

[wildgift]

I've never heard it put quite that way before.

[Video]

[powerful]

And where, exactly, are you from that you haven't heard like... Every single teenager you've ever met use that phrase?

[Video]

[wildgift]

Valdemar. Haven, I suppose, if you'd like to be even more specific.

[Video]

[powerful]

( her nose wrinkles. ) What's a Valdemar?

[Video]

[wildgift]

[If he hadn't had to learn what Valdemar was a decade ago when he'd been picked up, he would be a lot more condescending.]

A country. And a man too, I suppose, but he's long dead.

[Video]

[powerful]

Uh-huh. ( weird. ) I'm from Chance Harbor.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I've never heard of any place with that name.

[Video]

[powerful]

It's in Washington. In America.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I don't know what either of those are.

[Video]

[powerful]

Oooo-kay. ( right so. this is weird. ) So basically, we're both in a weird world, and we're clearly from different worlds of our own. Great. Let's just add another element of weird to this freakfest.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I'm sorry, what? I think I might only understand half of what comes out of your mouth.

[Video]

[powerful]

I have a feeling you and I aren't even remotely the same.

Re: [Video]

[wildgift]

I'm afraid I don't take your meaning.

[Video]

[powerful]

We're very different, from different worlds. We won't always understand each other.

Re: [Video]

[wildgift]

I suppose that makes sense in a strange, crazy way.

[Video]

[powerful]

It's better than constantly trying to translate, isn't it?

[Video]

[wildgift]

You might be right. But I'm afraid I may relapse.

[Video]

[powerful]

I'm sure we can figure something out eventually. It isn't like you're unpleasant or something. Just a little... Archaic, I think. Compared to me. Or something. We have different words for stuff, at the very least.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I suppose "archaic" is better than "unpleasant." If only slightly.

[Video]

[powerful]

Well it's not meant as an insult or anything.

[Video]

[wildgift]

No? Then thank you, I suppose.