Twenty Nine Transformations

[badhairlifetime]

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Let me get this straight. In a City where there are known curses, and tricks, and generally ill happenings, people actually pick up tiny little hearts, engraved with words like death, and murder, and liar, and the like, and then proceed to eat them? Not to mention, they rather smell like chalk to begin with.

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[OoC: She ate Tommy's Family, because she figured that one was sure to be safe; she found interesting results. Also, hers are here, so if you want to ret-con your character into having eaten one, go for it.]

Comments

[aperfectthird]

It is.

You're not from Earth?

[badhairlifetime]

No. I'm not. Many people here seem to be, however.

[aperfectthird]

Yes, that - had been the impression I was under.

May I ask where you're from?

[badhairlifetime]

[Automatically,] Ankh-Morpork. [She clears her throat.] That is, I'm from the Disc.

[aperfectthird]

The Disc is ...

[Slowly, as though he's trying out a new concept.]

...another ... world.

[badhairlifetime]

[Slightly amused,] Yes, that's right. The City could also be considered another world in and of itself. You needn't sound so tentative about it.

[aperfectthird]

This is the first - second, I suppose - time I've ever come across the concept. It's still a bit new to me.

[badhairlifetime]

I'm sorry to say that it gets rather old rather quickly.

May I ask what the first time was?

[aperfectthird]

When I arrived here. Before this, I had no idea anything like this even existed.

[badhairlifetime]

I see. You'll probably be hearing of it more and more as you get to know people.

[aperfectthird]

So it would seem. I've already met a young man from over a hundred years in my past.

[badhairlifetime]

Wait until you meet a young man from over a hundred years in your general future.

[aperfectthird]

I suppose it's as likely to happen as anything else.

[badhairlifetime]

And then switch bodies with them.

[aperfectthird]

[wat.]

I beg your pardon?

[badhairlifetime]

One of my first curses involved that very thing.

It's not exactly something that I'd like to have repeated.

[aperfectthird]

I ... will sincerely hope I manage to avoid a repeat of that curse. It sounds immensely unpleasant.

[badhairlifetime]

To say the least.