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[signatures]

If you lose contact with someone, I suppose all of our initial reactions include checking the network to see what sorts of curses are afflicting us today. It could be they've just turned into a bird and flew away - or a mermaid, or whatever is thrown at us. Maybe the next step ought to be breaking out the bloodhounds or combing through our particular selection of vampires or other supernatural creatures, but I happened to skip the optimistic parts and go straight for the Hall, today.

[ There's a second's worth of an uncomfortable pause before he continues. ]

Ariadne has left the City.

It seems like she knew it was coming, [ eames isn't mad at all she didn't warn them in advance nope nope nope ] so she left instructions and gifts. Anna Assaoui, apologies if I pronounced that something awful, Orange, White, Rupert, Ginny, Miss Mae, Steve, and Lady Sif - you're welcome to drop by our house to pick up a few items if you like. I'm not mailing them out, so it's on you to take the initiative.

Though, Rupert, it's the horse, so obviously that's not here.

Right.

That's all, then.

[ filter : yusuf n & arthur w ]

If you need me, I'll be having lunch at the Blue Light.

Comments

audio;

[aperfectthird]

I'm sorry to hear that. She was a good friend.

audio;

[signatures]

[ He's a little surprised to see Percy replying, because Percy, but it's true that Ariadne had plenty of interaction with the Weasleys. ]

No need to be sorry. By now she's returned to her studies, anyway.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

That's good. I imagine she missed them in her time here.

audio;

[signatures]

She did. It doesn't suit her to stay idle without continual learning.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

What is she going back to, if I may ask?

Is she safe?

audio;

[signatures]

University.

She is, aside from car accidents or random muggings. Or freak plane crashes, I suppose.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

So generally safe, then. That's good. I'm glad.

audio;

[signatures]

Better fate than most, I hear.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

By quite a stretch. I'm glad to hear it, though.

audio;

[signatures]

Though, it makes me wonder - how do we know people return to their own worlds as opposed to the deities whisking them off elsewhere? If everything is so interconnected, I'm not sure if I trust them.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

They must.

[They have to.]

Ginny went home when she left here.

audio;

[signatures]

As did I, but there's a difference between a standard and the whims of the deities here.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

[...he really, really wishes Eames hadn't said that.]

I've never heard of anyone going somewhere else besides home when they leave here.

audio;

[signatures]

We only hear about it if they come back after.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

No, I'm sure they all return home. Surely, if they went other places, someone would have said so by now.

audio;

[signatures]

How would we know, though? I don't think it's a majority of the people who return here. Or, if they do - plenty of them don't remember.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

We'd know because there's so many people here, that the odds would favor someone remembering.

audio;

[signatures]

Does magic often go hand-in-hand with statistics?

audio;

[aperfectthird]

It can. Magic works alongside a lot of Muggle disciplines.

audio;

[signatures]

Muggle? Is that what you call the rest of us?

audio;

[aperfectthird]

Er - yes. It's the word we use for non-magical people.

I told Ariadne I'd use it less. My apologies.

audio;

[signatures]

No, no, use it all you like - I've just not heard it before.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

Really? I'm surprised Ginny's never used it.

audio;

[signatures]

I've never asked for the definition, to be honest.

audio;

[aperfectthird]

I'm glad I could be of help, then.