♕ |[77]| ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them

[had_not_lived]

Before you ask, as someone always does: I would have announced auditions this weekend, for the play, but I think under the circumstances it might be better to hold off until things are back to normal. I love when everyone comes to visit, but it does make it difficult to get work done! And I don't know that the announcement would be as widely noticed today.

Besides, I'm not sure I could concentrate; I'd much rather just visit with everyone.

Welcome to the City, if you haven't been here before-- and if you have, welcome back!



[ooc: Please no other Neils (tho face doubles are fiiiiine) and don't outright tell him he doesn't exist. Otherwise, s'all good. ALSO this post is as always eternally backdating friendly! This is Neil's faaaavorite so do come play 8)]

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[witchtrapped]

They're very fond of pretty things. Jewels, flowers, and the like. Beauty is very important to them, I would think.

[had_not_lived]

Have you met many of them yourself?

[witchtrapped]

Only once, when my father took me with him when he paid a call on King Neptune. I hear them often, though, but some of them are shy, and others are spiteful of other girls, so I never see them too closely.

[had_not_lived]

It's nice that you get to listen, at least.

Things like mermaids-- and vampires, and-- I don't know. Unicorns, fairies; they're all just stories, where I'm from.

[witchtrapped]

Your world must be very strange, if so many things are nothing more than stories! Do you live in a world of the stories of others, then, or do you have ones of your own?

[had_not_lived]

Well, we have things-- Cities like this one, at least a little like this one. Big and busy. Machines that travel a mile a minute, and other ones people can fly in. It's... different.

[witchtrapped]

Machines!

[Now this reaction, Neil, might strike you as vaguely familiar somehow; after all, not many people have such a violent, abhorrent reaction to a single word.]

You come from a world filled with machines?

[had_not_lived]

[Actually, it does. Rosella takes that exact same tone.]

I wouldn't say filled...

[witchtrapped]

Ugh!

[Oh, yes, there's no mistaking that one. She gets it from her mother, clearly.]

Such horrible things, machines. I am terribly sorry to hear of the unfortunate circumstances of your home, Sir Neil.

[had_not_lived]

[He almost wants to laugh, just because it's so unexpected, so intense.]

It's not-- they're not bad, they're very useful. We don't mind them.

Why do you dislike them so much, if you don't mind my asking?

[witchtrapped]

They're just--unnatural, horrible things. However do you bear them? The clanking and grinding of gears and...ugh!

[had_not_lived]

You remind me of a friend of mine; I think she's said almost the same thing.

[witchtrapped]

Do I? It would be an honor to be counted among your friends, Sir Neil, so I too will count it an honor to be compared to one.

[had_not_lived]

Have you ever heard of a kingdom called Daventry?

[witchtrapped]

Daventry...

[She's actually drawing a little in midair with one finger, as if diagramming it out in her head.]

Oh, that's...in the southern part of Serenia. Yes, Tanalore is Tamir in the west and Llewdor in the east, and further east of that is Serenia in the north and Daventry in the south. I always thought it odd how they separated out that way! It's very far from Kolyma, though, Daventry. It would take someone a long time to travel there.

[had_not_lived]

No longer to travel here from Daventry than from Kolyma, though, I'd guess. If you had the right luck.

[witchtrapped]

Well, it never takes long to move somewhere by magic! But I am no wizard, and not acquainted with any, so I could only make such a journey by boat.

[Or, you know, via magic amulet in the arms of the king of Daventry as his future bride. NOT THAT SHE KNOWS THAT.]

[had_not_lived]

[Well, who knows. Not Neil.]

My friend Rosella is from Daventry-- she's been here a long time, too. She doesn't like machines, either.

[witchtrapped]

That's a lovely name. 'Rosella'.

[AND THEN THERE WAS A TIME PARADOX--]

She sounds very sensible, your Rosella.

[had_not_lived]

[Well, Valanice, if you ever have a daughter, and she develops the habit of adventuring and getting herself into trouble, go easy on her, ok?]

She really is. I should see if I can introduce you at some point...

[witchtrapped]

[Naturally she will do her very best to be a good mom! Especially under those suspiciously specific circumstances.]

I would be most pleased to meet another from my world, if it really is as far as you say. Any small camaraderie is surely better than none.

[had_not_lived]

I'll have to get in touch with her, then! But I do hope you'll enjoy the City, while you're here. It's an interesting place to visit, no matter what!