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TEST DRIVE MEME #8

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01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD.
The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you not with mirthful revelry, this time around dear friends. There is a seriousness in the air, though the food is still hearty and the imps still mischievous. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks!

02. THE STATION.
Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms!

03. WILDCARD.
Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket! Be mindful, though -- the monarchs are watching and cross court communication should be done with the utmost secrecy.

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"Not needing it isn't the same as not wanting it," he can't help but point out. Dick pets Marey absently, not noticing when his hand, on occasion, almost passes through her ears. "Besides! It's freely offered. Welcome, I guess?"

"Nothing is free, child. Nothing for nothing." She sighs.

"I have had the welcome. Tell me instead of your pony. How did you come by her?"

That's a rather depressing way to think of things.

"Marey? Korra gave her to me when I started my quest. Apparently, her last owner was killed, so... I'm taking care of her now."

As an advance for a service, the pony seems a suitable payment. In its particular way, that puts Angela at ease. There are, at least, bargains to be had.

"And your quest?"

"Went to the Citadel, Leathann, and the Station to learn things from people. It helped a lot, since it gave me an idea of what I'm doing here and where things are."

And when Korra brought up the Courts' ideals later in the month, it helped him have a better idea of what to say and what to ask.

"Can that be called a quest?"

She fails to see how that sort of mission could benefit anyone but him, so why another would give it to him, let alone with a mount, is entirely lost on her.

"There is value in the information you learned, but surely only to yourself."

"Korra called it a quest so it's a quest. I mean, I agree, it was mostly beneficial to me." He shrugs, and goes on, "But it also meant I consolidated information and knowledge from three different people that I don't think have been, uh, consolidated before."

Pause.

"If consolidate means to put together, does solidate mean to take apart? Or...insolidate? Like converse and inverse!"

"No," she says. The boy's language is strange enough without that sort of tangent.

"Was the knowledge of use to others as well?"

"It could," he says rebelliously, but Dick nods. "I think so. It sounded like it, anyway, and I know some of them were curious about what I learned. They're getting copies of my report, anyway."

She smiles very slightly. It does not actually make her look less stabby.

"You have spirit, little Midgardian. I will not question your task. If the giver thought it worth payment... that is their value to assess."

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Yeah, exactly! Though Dick's been thinking about it too, honestly, had been thinking about it since he spoke to Hermione, Nico and Merida the first time. He definitely owes Korra a lot.

"Midgardian?" Dick echoes, raising his eyebrows. "So you're not from Earth, huh." It...was rather obvious, but hey, different universes, different worlds, better not to assume too quickly. "Wait, Midgard. Midgard, like... Asgard and all that?"

"That depends what you mean by 'all that'," she says, considering his expression.

"What do you know of Asgard?"

"Not much, honestly," Dick shrugs.

He'd only done some light reading into Norse Mythology before arriving, more as a matter of curiosity than actual research; now he wishes he'd done more, and more recently. Though from what he's heard, if this lady's from the same place as Thor, it's not really the same anyway.

It'll be interesting if she was. It'd be just as interesting if she wasn't.

"We've got some myths and legends about Asgard and the gods."

"The gods of Asgard left their mark upon many other realms."

Her answer is guarded, rather noncommittal.

"Is that all you know of them?"

"Yeah, pretty much. I've heard stories, read a few of them."

He isn't about to mention Thor when he doesn't know her stance on the Seelie-Unseelie issue. When he first arrived, maybe, but now... It's better to be cautious, careful, and it isn't as though he's lying. Dick's only actually met Thor once, and most of what he knows is from what he read and what Hercules told him.

"What's up?"

"Up," she repeats, as though vaguely familiar with the idiom and trying to place it. It has the ring of conversations had on the Guardian's ship. Those memories are, on the main, good ones.

"I would not say up, but it is of interest to me. You have heard only stories of Asgard? But Asgardians have been on Midgard."

"Yeah, uh. About that..." He gives her a sheepish grin, shrugging. "It's a parallel universes sort of thing, as far as we can tell. There are a few world's that are similar, but different. No Asgardian's ever visited my Earth."

"And better for it." The words are spoken without the heat they may have once had, but they are not lacking conviction. Asgardians are dangerous, and powerful, and their melodramas would surely only harm the mortals around them.

As for the explanation of parallel universes... she has heard stranger things, both this day and before.

"These fairies have drawn people from further away than I realized."

"Ooooh yeah."

Dick looks around, mentally noting the many, many, many different clothing styles and types of people he can see. And while there are plenty who have taken the local way of dressing as their own, most retain some call-back to what they're used to. It makes for an interesting array.

"Some of our worlds are more similar than others. Some are totally entirely completely different."

"That is the way of worlds throughout the galaxy," she says. It seems stating obvious to her. Why should universes be any less diverse than stars?

But it is less surprising the boy would not recognize it.

"Tell me," she says then. "Have you traveled far before coming here?"

What a loaded question. "It's hard to say. I mean, magic means I can't tell how far I literally traveled. But if you're asking how similar this place is to what I'm used to? It's...entirely, totally different."

Her lips twitch. It's difficult to tell for sure, but she might be amused by his response. Or she might think he's being evasive.

Either way.

"I meat the latter. Distances like these are not so easily measured."

"Yeah, I'll say."

He shrugs. "Like I said, it's totally different. I mean, people? People are the same everywhere. Mostly, anyway. And I don't mean that literally. But like... What drives people, their motivations and emotions and that need to prove themselves? I'm finding that's pretty similar across worlds. It's a good thing, I think."

"Is it?"

She pauses, considering. She isn't sure that she agrees. She isn't sure she disagrees either. Perhaps it is simply an angle that she never considered. She is not sure she sees a reason to consider it deeply now.

"Do so many people here have something to prove?" she asks instead of responding to the goodness of the thing.

Dick laughs, shaking his head. "Hey, it doesn't have to be a big thing to prove."

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