[ it is slightly prying because she feels a little embarrassed by it, but he is an old - friend? brother figure? what can they call the nature of their bond when they are virtual strangers to each other, but the emotional tethers remain?
it's complicated. but at least she can start by answering his questions. ]
she's a ship. a spaceship. midbook transport, firefly class serenity. no relation.
[ lol get it ]
we're in thorne. it was nice to see the free cities for the first time, even if it wasn't real. probably won't happen again but there's nocwich.
[ in terms of seeing each other again, that is, if he was ever interested in such a thing. ]
A spaceship? So: nothing like a steam ship, then? I'm more familiar with those, I've seen plenty of them on the Thames, but I've never heard of a spaceship until now.
[He's from the reign of Queen Victoria. Steam ships are as good as it gets.]
It might not have been real, but some of it felt real enough to me. [Like the relationships between him and those he saw as his friends.] I know Nocwich. City full of vampires, is it? I've been there before, in that false future.
steamships declined in popularity in the 1950s following world war II. the first successful spacecraft carried a man into earth's orbit in 1961. then the thames ran black and we left earth-that-was for another star system in 2097.
[ random information dumps are much more her speed than strange traumatic magic happenstances! ]
vampires and werewolves. they're not very friendly neighbors. ikorr drove luna out and they fled to solvunn. i don't know if it's good or bad but it was sad to see.
There's two wars that catch the whole world up in their grasp? The Thames ran black? Bloody hell, I can barely believe it—I only just laid eyes on an internal combustion engine this year.
1961, really? It's a shame I won't live that long, I'd love to see it.
[Movies and spaceships—damn it, Jacob kind of wishes he were born much later than he was, if only to see these things happening in real time.]
Territorial dispute, right? I know a quick way to solve that, but I'm not sure if that would work out here as well as it did for me and my Rooks back in London.
2500? My god, I can't even fathom what the world would look like fifty years from now. That being said, about the Thames, in my time, it's rather crowded with ships and a tad.
Murky, let's say.
I'm from 1868. The Rooks are real, they're the gang I lead back in London. And it does include some gambling, but chiefly we've been throwing another, bigger, worse gang out of power.
Right. I'll take that advice under consideration, if and when I do get back to London.
Easy. Our lot doesn't target innocent people, and we'll not accept them as collateral damage, either. The Blighters are all too willing to harm civilians just to show their power.
[ if and when - that's the crux of it all, isn't it? but that way lies madness, so she lets it drop to continue dwelling on it later. ]
the blighters. a disease or a poison. in legal code, an area that's detrimental to safety, health, or morals. at least they picked an appropriate name.
Certainly a poison to London, for all they and their benefactors pretended they were doing it for the city's sake. So I formed the Rooks, to stand up against them and show their victims there was a way to fight back, a way to cure the ills they'd brought to the people of London.
My sister would like you, I believe. Her name's Evie. She's got a keen interest on history.
she has a good brother. thank you [ for what, exactly? it's so hard to explain what happened or how they know each other. ] for being there, in the dream. i'm glad the rooks exist as a gang or a cult.
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River. Good name. Where'd Serenity come from, if it's not prying?
You're not in the Free Cities, are you?
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it's complicated. but at least she can start by answering his questions. ]
she's a ship. a spaceship. midbook transport, firefly class serenity. no relation.
[ lol get it ]
we're in thorne. it was nice to see the free cities for the first time, even if it wasn't real. probably won't happen again but there's nocwich.
[ in terms of seeing each other again, that is, if he was ever interested in such a thing. ]
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[He's from the reign of Queen Victoria. Steam ships are as good as it gets.]
It might not have been real, but some of it felt real enough to me. [Like the relationships between him and those he saw as his friends.] I know Nocwich. City full of vampires, is it? I've been there before, in that false future.
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[ random information dumps are much more her speed than strange traumatic magic happenstances! ]
vampires and werewolves. they're not very friendly neighbors. ikorr drove luna out and they fled to solvunn. i don't know if it's good or bad but it was sad to see.
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1961, really? It's a shame I won't live that long, I'd love to see it.
[Movies and spaceships—damn it, Jacob kind of wishes he were born much later than he was, if only to see these things happening in real time.]
Territorial dispute, right? I know a quick way to solve that, but I'm not sure if that would work out here as well as it did for me and my Rooks back in London.
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what year are you from? the rooks are real? what do you do? does it involve gambling?
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Murky, let's say.
I'm from 1868. The Rooks are real, they're the gang I lead back in London. And it does include some gambling, but chiefly we've been throwing another, bigger, worse gang out of power.
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[ ominous?? also rude maybe?? ]
how do you decide if your gang is less worse than the other one?
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Easy. Our lot doesn't target innocent people, and we'll not accept them as collateral damage, either. The Blighters are all too willing to harm civilians just to show their power.
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the blighters. a disease or a poison. in legal code, an area that's detrimental to safety, health, or morals. at least they picked an appropriate name.
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My sister would like you, I believe. Her name's Evie. She's got a keen interest on history.
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