TEST DRIVE MEME

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. 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!

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[whereyoubegin]

[ Kami smooths down her ruffled red skirt self-consciously, fiddles with the big bow-shaped buttons of her sweater. She smiles and sidles in next to the girl, keeping a polite space between them, and leans against the wall. ]

Hadn't even crossed my mind. The people here - they're beautiful but they all look a bit strange, you know? The ones that have human shapes look a little...off. You're pretty, but it's a normal kind of pretty.

[ She bites her lips and laughs. ] Sorry. Is that strange? I'm Kami, Kami Glass.

[whereyoubegin]

[ This time it's Kami's turn to blush; it's always nice to be complimented by someone prettier than she is. ]

Nice to meet you. I like your dress. It's very medieval chic.

[whereyoubegin]

You know, medieval, the Middle Ages, circa CE 600 to CE 1485. The time between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the ascension of Henry VII to the throne of England.

[ Kami flounders a bit hopelessly. How does anyone not know what "medieval" means - unless she's actually medieval herself, and not some kind of performer or revivalist who merely likes the aesthetic of stays and princess gowns. ]

[whereyoubegin]

Then we are oh-for-two, because I have never in my life heard of any...Aegon, was that it?

[ She rubs at her head, considering. Everyone knows who the Romans were, even Sobo, who grew up in a country the Romans never touched. ]

But you sound English. Pinch me, won't you?

[whereyoubegin]

So I can be sure I'm not hallucinating this entire out of reality experience.

[ holding out her arm helpfully ]

Go on, do it, I need to be sure I'm not crazy.

[whereyoubegin]

[ The pinch hurts like a pinch should, and Kami feels a tremble of relief. Sometimes she has that niggling fear in the back of her mind, that maybe Jared is real but maybe Kami is still crazy after all. You can't live with someone else in your head and in your heart for seventeen years without it twisting you up a little inside. She'd thought - okay, magic is real, hyakume and wood spirits and sorcerers are real, so why not fairies? If one story is real, surely a hundred must be.

But other...other realms, other worlds, other places entirely - and that's what this girl Alayne and the things she knows and the things she doesn't means - that's something else. It could the kind of story a person would make up all on their own, if a person is crazy enough. ]

Maybe we are. From what I remember of fairytales, the fae didn't exactly inspire a whole lot of mental stability in the people they touched.