[Video 001]

[silvering]

[A slender teen with silver hair and silver eyes, leaps out of the fountain with the device, and a cane in his hand. His clothes aren't modern. 

He's intent, looking for something. A giant worm to be specific.

It takes a moment for him to register that the sights and smells of a damp London day have vanished. He looks into the screen.]

Hello, I am sorry to trouble people, but has anyone seen a party of men, a girl wearing a wedding dress and another female wearing men's clothes run through here?

[His brow furrows and he suppresses a cough.]

I know they sound like an odd assortment of people, I assure you, I do not joke with my description of them.

My names is Jem.

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[steleheart]

[ She sees his marks because she can now, immediately switches to video because how can she not? He's another shadowhunter and one she doesn't know. It's already causing an itch of intrigue in the back of her mind. ]

I'm sorry, I haven't seen anyone in a wedding dress recently. [ Noting the fountain and knowing how the City likes to bring people in. ] I think you've been dragged in by the City. I don't think your friends are going to be here.

[silvering]

[This was a device that Henry would dearly love to get his hands on. Henry would be intrigued to see how pictures of a person could be made to see and move.

Jem pushes the damp locks out of his eyes and appears calm. There is a coldness around his head. He can longer sense Will...he focuses on her word,]

How can I see a city drag a person anywhere?

[Unless it was powered by magic. Was Mortmain trying to separate them by another means than he had already tried?]

Would I be able to locate this place on a map?

[steleheart]

It's --. [ Magic, she thinks. ] Um, have you used a device before? Because if not I could come to the fountain. It might be better.

[ And he's a shadowhunter. She doesn't really want to talk about it over the device but she wants to let him now all the same. ]

[silvering]

I have never seen anything like it. [Jem admits.

She looks harmless and sounds it. There is a kindness in her eyes that Tessa and Charlotte both have. His fingers tighten on his cane. He needs to get back to them. If the device proves to be key to it he must learn how to work it.]

I would be much obliged to you for your help. [He inclines his head with a small smile.]

I had not seen a moving picture before yours.

[ Video ]

[stelecharm]

An odd assortment sums it up.

[ The video feed doesn't give him too much to work with, but it doesn't take a genius to know he's new. ] But I can't say that I've seen them around, and I think I'd remember if I had.

Re: [ Video ]

[silvering]

[Jem's sharp eyes catch the faded lines of a rune. There is a sharp intake of breath.]

It was an odd situation in which we found ourselves.

I am sorry but I do not recognise your face.

[ Video ]

[stelecharm]

Yeah, I guessed that much, which is probably why I'm not going to ask.

[ Snarkiness aside, he looks amused, but his life's hectic enough without a weird circus to chase down. ]

Speak for yourself, you're the new kid in town. [ His smirk seems to freeze in place as he eyes him suspiciously. ] As far as I'm aware, we've never met.

[ Video ]

[bettercallit]

[ Clint adopts strays, so why not try for one more? ]

Sorry, kid, haven't seen a group fitting that description.

Re: [ Video ]

[silvering]

[Jem's eyes flicker with worry. Where were they?]

I don't understand. I was part of this group before I suddenly found myself in a fountain.

[ Video ]

[bettercallit]

Yeah, that happens a lot here. You need somewhere to dry off?

[misterblackbird]

That is an odd assortment. Which is rather saying something, given the oddities of the City itself.

Welcome, I suppose, if no one's said it to you already.

[silvering]

Thank you for the welcome. It isn't a greeting that I have heard yet.

What are the oddities that you speak of in this place?

[misterblackbird]

It's sometimes a bit difficult to want to welcome anyone to this place. But, still, it does seem the polite thing to do.

As to the oddities, they're nearly beyond number. But I suppose the fact that this place has no name outside of 'the City' and that it falls to various and peculiar curses--at least that's what we've taken to calling them--from time to time should be a start. That, and the 'deities' who supposedly manage the whole operation. But one has to rather wonder about that.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

Welcome to the City, Sir Jem.

I doubt you will find your companions here, unless you know they are also within the confines of this City.

You are now in another world.

Re: [Video]

[silvering]

[Jem smiles at the title accorded to him. It was inaccurate even if it was how he tried to conduct himself.]

Thank you for your explanation.

`what type of other world is this? I have only heard of demonic and angelic ones.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

You have arrived at the interchange point joining several railroads. However, traffic here is restricted, largely one-way, and is under jurisdiction of the ones known as the Deities. Do you have a map?

[Very fond of train metaphors, this one.]

[deadmanbusiness]

[The silver eyes catch Theo's attention. He doesn't see many people with eyes that color. Beyond himself, his uncle and a few fey-blooded people he knows. Though since Theo is wearing sunglasses it's hard to tell his eye color.]

A woman wearing men's clothing isn't all that strange. Though I can't say I've seen anyone in a wedding dress.

Hi. I'm Theodred.

[silvering]

Where I am from, women are very rarely seen out of dresses. Though from what I can see around me here, more women appear to wear trouser than dresses.

[deadmanbusiness]

I guess they do, don't they? I never noticed. I've been told it's more practical.

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[moonlitrequiem]

Welcome to the City. [It's a very unenthusiastic, deadpan sounding greeting.]

Has this place been explained to you?

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[silvering]

Thank you. I have received the explanation that I have arrived in another world run by deities and that the year is a hundred years in my future.

[Jem manages a half smile.]

I have not received much information on the deities or how they rule over us.

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[moonlitrequiem]

There is little information available on the deities that isn't speculation. I have yet to speak with them myself. They only show on occasion to make announcements, give information that is not necessarily accurate and seem to be in charge, as they hand out judgements for acts of rebellion.

voice; LATE BUT COULD NOT RESIST

[hexuality]

[The name is so familiar, there's just a lot about this post that is oddly familiar to her. (Jem—James Carstairs, that's what she was asked a few years ago, but there's no telling if she's just remembering it wrong, or...)]

Jem? [Pause.] Just because people haven't seen anything doesn't mean it didn't happen. Have you got names, then?

[silvering]

Will and Tessa.

[Jem's voice sounds hopeful. There were others there but those are the first two names that will always spring to Jem's mind]

[hexuality]

Herondale.

[Ginny sounds like she might be laughing, so surprised that she's remembered a detail like an offhand comment in a very long conversation.]

I thought I recognised your name.