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poly_chromatic2012-08-15 11:58 am
hexuality) wrote in poly_chromatic2012-08-15 11:58 am
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—here! I'm here, sorry, sorry ...
[The feed starts with a jolt, the image jerking all over the place as if the device is being held in a fist of someone running. Which it is. From what you can see between Ginny's fingers, it's a clothes shop—Passione, which she now co-owns with Angela, who is on holiday as of today.
Of course, today is the day Ginny is late to work.]
Overslept, must've hexed my alarm clock when it went off—
[The video finally comes to a halt when Ginny does, the device set down face up on the counter that she's leaning across, speaking to Ellis the NPC who has been assigned to be her extra pair of hands and eyes while Angela's away. Thank Merlin.]
Hey, you're fine. It's okay. [A hand creeps into the frame and points at something, a clock, offscreen.] You got five minutes.
I'm not late?
[There's a self-congratulatory yes quickly followed by Ginny's hand and arm reaching across the device and yanking Ellis to her over the counter; and without preamble, she plants a hard, bold kiss on his mouth.
Poor Ellis startles and his hand knocks the device off the counter and it goes clattering to the floor, ending the feed.]
[ooc; Come at her, bros. Ginny will be working at the shop, out getting coffee, and probably flying later today, as usual. She's a Gryffindor, she celebrates small victories all the time. WON'T YOU COME AND JOIN HER. (P.S. she's 20 years old now, no one has to feel creepy.)]
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[Her brows knit.]
It's not like we're doing it on purpose.
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[She admits as much, but she's also been through so many of these kissing curses by now that she's forgotten how unnerved she was the first time she'd encountered one. Because what he says is true; up until she came here, every kiss she'd given had been meant.]
I don't want to tell you to not go outside, but sometimes on curses like this, it's best.
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I forgot to ask! What would you like for your birthday, Ginny? I have something, but I worry it will not be entirely to your liking.
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[It was quite dramatic. Pavel's question catches her off guard, though, and she laughs with pleasant surprise—she doesn't bother pointing out that her birthday had been over the past weekend since the party will be for both Weasleys, anyway.]
You didn't have to get me anything! But I'm sure I'll love it, whatever you've picked out. Thank you.
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[Because ew, kissing your other-dimension big-brother-person. And thank you, Ginny, for not pointing out his error; he would feel rather bad knowing that he had missed the actual occasion.]
Please, thank me after you have seen it! And I believe that the tradition of giving presents on birthdays predates the present by a great deal.
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[She shrugs, smiles. She's touched, okay.]
This birthday's a bit strange, anyway. It could be my seventeenth back home but it's my twentieth, here.
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[No one has ever been so impressed by the thought of a gift! He isn't sure what to do.]
Which do you choose to celebrate? To me, you are more twenty than seventeen.
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I think I might be more twenty than seventeen, too. It's just how things worked out here, I suppose, with staying as long as I have. But I just came back from home and I was sixteen then, so it's a bit mixed up.
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Moving in a single universe, relative time depends on velocity [wel-AW-cee-tee], of course, and so spacetime contracts when an object, such as a starship in warp, moves very quickly. This results in time dilation--as does low gravity potentials, but I am less concerned with them--and so, although time appears to move as always to those on the ship, they will find that they have experienced the passage of less time than those on Earth, and at light speeds, seconds become infinitely long. This is convenient on the ship, of course, because we move spacetime around us and can travel great distances in minutes, but it is problematic because, to those on Earth who are not moving so quickly, several hundred years may go by in a second as it is measured on the ship. This way, if I went on a five-year mission in space where I frequently traveled at speeds that approached the speed of light, I would return to Earth's coordinates a very, very long time after leaving. Perhaps the Earth would not even exist.
But ships have a stasis field, you see, that creates a... bubble? Forgive my wording, but this field contains the ship in a spacetime bubble. When this field is used, spacetime around the bubble is still subject to time dilation, but the ship and those in it still experience the same relative time as those on Earth, and this is why I can travel to other solar systems and still go home to visit my mother and father--in theory, is what I mean. It would be illogical to deviate far from a set course to visit family when on a mission.
No, I was saying... even though there is a stasis field in place, nothing is so perfect as nature and technology cannot negate every possible spacetime fluctuation. Even in the twenty-third century we are still discovering new time anomalies. I worry that, maybe, I am aging slightly slower in space and that my age relative to me will be younger than my age relative to my family.
[A hand wave to clear the air of all of that nonsense.]
These are foolish worries, of course. I cannot think of anything that would cause significant relative time differences, assuming the stasis field generator never fails midwarp or an unknown cosmological force acts upon us.
The City does not worry me so much as all of that because, from what I have been told, this dimension's spacetime is wholly severed from that of other dimensions. That is confusing, when you age here and then go home to age again, but you are not affected physically. It isn't like home, where I have seen proof that multiple timelines--two for certain, likely infinitely many--are linked, somehow, in a way that not even I can begin to understand.
[He pauses.]
Have I answered the question well enough?
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Okay. Process.]
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[Yeah, so much for processing.]
I mean, er—yes?
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It was too much?
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