fairynuff | TEST DRIVE MEME #8

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OPTIONAL SCENARIOS

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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"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."

"Something small to prove would be more your size."

Was that a joke?

It might have been.

It's enough of one to make him laugh.

"Hey, I'll grow! Eventually."

"I would hope as much. You're young yet."

She isn't less unhappy with her situation, but at least she manages to unbend a bit. She's still tall and imposing, but her posture is less stiff. Her ribbons flick at the air irritably, but they're no longer lashing.

He watches them curiously, then turns back to looking at Angela. He sticks his hand out with a smile, "I'm Dick!"

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