First Prank: Grand Entrance

[doeswhathewants]

[A charming smile with wide and innocuous green eyes, though the glitter in them is something less than harmless and innocent. When he speaks, his voice is light and engaging. Ignore the fact that he’s soaking wet.]

Hello out there!

[The volume is a bit loud and he winces before catching it and allowing his features to adjust back into that beguiling smile. He fixes the volume, teeth catching his lower lip in an expression that really is innocent. His charm does not fade as he speaks again]

Let's try this again? Ah. Better. Now. It seems there has been a terrible mistake, a grave error, I am entirely unsure of where I am, only that I woke up here- yes! woke up!- after being dumped in a fountain and er- found this Stark phone on my person. .

Obviously, whoever has done this has the wrong person entirely. I am no one at all of consequence, a Parisian orphan.

[He frowns and the expression is solemn, pious]

Now, if you please, could someone tell me how far back to Paris?

[OoC Note: Serrure speaks in the All Tongue (he understands every language, anyone he speaks to will understand him) but he thinks he's speaking in French and will assume everyone else is, too.]

Comments

[godofabs]

It is like someone else I once knew.

[doeswhathewants]

Who? [There's just the faintest feel of dread in the pit of his stomach, like the revealing of a great black pit with a precarious cover over it. And Thor's holding the edge of that cover. They were only nightmares, he tells himself.]

[godofabs]

It matters not now.

[doeswhathewants]

[And the dread is gone and the thought of it ever having been there is silly. The wave of relief is almost embarrassment.]

Something you're trying to forget? [Nosey.]

[godofabs]

More like you cannot change the past.

[doeswhathewants]

You could, but it might be one of those time paradox situations that ends the world as we know it. Just awful, really.

A wise person once told me, you can't change the past, you either run from it, or learn from it. [By wise person he means Disney movies.]

[godofabs]

Does embracing the difficult make you wise?

[doeswhathewants]

As long as you ... embrace it... with an eye towards the future. Not learning from one's mistakes is folly, especially large and overarching ones. To do otherwise would be a defect in character.

[godofabs]

Certainly a good way to put it.

[doeswhathewants]

I know. I'm a genius.

[godofabs]

Genius can be dangerous.

[doeswhathewants]

Oh, I count on that.

[godofabs]

Be careful. That line of thought is .... (weird has he had this conversation before?) quite dangerous.

[doeswhathewants]

That is rather the point. The two equal out. Genius for danger and genius to get out of danger.

[godofabs]

No... I do not think that is how it is.

[doeswhathewants]

Then how is it?