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[It's hard to tell what the gentleman is thinking as a pair of sunglasses cover half his face. From the tone of his voice it's easy to tell that he's exasperated, tired and pissed off. He's dressed in a very expensive business suit that is currently a bit singed, has some blood on it, and very rumpled. Clearly someone has been busy before they arrived here and hasn't had a chance to change.]

Another kidnapping? Really. Don't you people ever get tired of it?

I have to say it's pretty good for a kidnapping. I mean, I didn't even feel the transfer and that's damn hard to do.

[He pauses and looks around to get a better sense of his surroundings.]

Are you fair folk? It doesn't feel like Faery.

[That said, he shrugs dismissing the matter out of hand. Faery or not, he's still been kidnapped after all. That's what needs to be dealt with.]

Anyway. It'd be best to let me go back right now for everyone's sake. My father will be pissed off when he finds me missing and his temper is already frayed and my fiancee will be pissed off and her temper is even more frayed.

This seems like a nice place, if odd. So instead of pissing off the god of the dead and the warmage just let me go home and I won't mention it. This will save a lot of lives in the long run.

I've got enough on my plate already.

Please, don't add any more.

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It was ... interesting. Especially since a few of us were also drunk.

A deer doesn't sound too bad.

[And there's giggling.]

Drunk chipmunks.

[And more giggles.]

Actually it was kind of fun. I loved being able to run through the woods so fast!

Trever's familiar ended up walking away with him. We didn't find him until the next day.

It sounds a bit freeing. Did you think you were a deer?

His familiar what ended up walking away?

Well, I knew I was Rain, but I also knew I was a deer. If that makes sense.

Maybe it doesn't 'cause I say things wrong sometimes.

His familiar. She's a cat. He uses her to help with his spells and communing with the environment.

You thought you were always a deer? Like it was always your natural form? Or you had your human intelligence at the same time you were a deer?

Oh. Like witches in stories?

Um... You ask lots of hard questions.

No. I was me, but I knew that right then I was a deer and it felt right to be in a deer body and I knew what deer knew, but I was still all me inside.

[Er...]

They're not stories. And he's technically a shaman.

Sorry. But I understand now.

Oh.

They're supposed to be just stories where I'm from, but I always thought maybe they were real somewhere.

They're quite real where I come from.

Gosh.

I wish I could see it there.

I mean, all those things are real here but it's not the same as having a whole real world that's magic.

I guess. I mean, it's perfectly normal for us.

I guess.

[And there's a little sigh.]

There are lots of worlds I wish I could visit.

What's your world like?

Just a regular old world. The United States.

No one ever believes me about the angels and demons fighting in the streets, but all the street kids know it's true.

I live just outside of DC in West Virginia.

How come?

Oh, I've probably been near there.

Because they think I'm just crazy.

I guess you traveled around a lot then?

There are some things out there that only kids can see. And then when you get older you lose the ability to see them.

My dad, he... well... he was pretty much a drunk and we'd go from place to place with him trying to get work and getting fired. Mostly he'd stay in shelters or sleep in his car and mostly I'd sleep on the street.

You think so? 'Cause it always seemed so real. Even when I got old, too. But maybe 'cause my brain doesn't work quite right I just kind of stayed sort of young anyway.

Ah. I see.

I don't see why not. It makes sense to me.

Well, I guess that's good because I still believe all of it.

I won't tell you you're crazy because of it.

I don't even know your name.

Oh gosh, I always forget that part!

I'm Rain.

I'm Theodred. Everyone calls me Theo.

It's odd circumstances. I won't hold it against you.

What would you like to be called?

Oh, it's okay, I do it all the time. I get so happy to be talking to someone that I forget I'm supposed to be polite and tell my name.

Theo.

If someone's calling me Theodred, I'm usually in trouble.

[He's happy she doesn't recognize the name.]

I didn't leave much of an opening for introductions.

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