hadriel | Staten Island Ferry, Elvish Style! [Video/Action ]

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Staten Island Ferry, Elvish Style! [Video/Action ]

[ Curufin and Margaery Tyrell set sail from the bay of North Island, the same day as he puts the finishing touches on the boat. It is clinker-built (also called lapstrake), which makes the hull flexible, good for sailing turbulent waters. It has a single square-sail (sewn by Margaery), though it also has rowlocks and oars, in the unlikely event of the winds dying. It looks something like this.

It can be crewed by two people, but more would be nice! Give Margaery and Curufin a holler if you want them to come pick you up! Either because you want to come along for the ride and learn something about sailing, or because you need to be ferried to a different island than the one you're on. They'll take you wherever you want to go. Also, call if you want something picked up and delivered to you, or if you just want the sailors to come and visit you. ]

Hello, Hadriel! The ferry's in service.

[ OOC: Either or both Margaery or Curufin will answer! But you can also request one or the other. ]

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I don't think I'd even want to travel alone on this planet. If you're up for an expedition at some point, I'm sure there will be some. I, for one, intend to get one together. I'd like to know what's over the horizon. And I'm sure I won't be the only one who's thinking along those lines.

I haven't come across any of the gods' boats yet, but then, I haven't been looking.

Which island are you on?

The west right now. Don't worry about coming for me, I can get across if I need to.

All right, I won't worry. You're one of those who have other means of transportation? [ Which of course she doesn't have to answer if she doesn't choose to divulge that info. ]

Not personally, no, but I've got a friend here who does.

That's a good thing. Do you have everything you need, where you are?

So far. I can make do if I have to.

Check the lowest empty apartments of Spires 1 and 4. A bunch of us harvested the Orchard before the move, and we put some of the produce in each of the spires. Also, if you can get to South Island, Delmar let us leave some stores in his bakery. He meant the food to be a community resource. The Clinic may also have a stash, though I'm not positive about that.

That's good to know, thanks. I'm glad we at least planned ahead.

There was a flurry of activity as soon as we were told of the move and asked to vote on it. Most of it was concerned with food stores and clothing that would be appropriate to whatever climate we ended up in.

Did you vote? I did. I voted for the islands.

Yeah. I did too. It kind of... reminds me of someone.

Someone who was important to you?

Yeah. He was here for a while but he left. He would really have loved this.

That's a pity, that he left. Was he from a place where people could boat easily? Do you think he returned to his own world?

He could at least. Or else he could swim it if he had to.

And I really, really hope so. If he went somewhere else I'll kill him.

[ A little sympathetic smile. ] Did you have plans to be reunited there?

Yes, it is hard to be separated from those who matter to us.

Yes. We did. I guess we'll see if they actually happen now.

Sorrow told Margaery that he could send her to a different world than her own, the world of a friend who has departed from Hadriel. Let's hope that was the truth. If it is, then you, too, may certainly be reunited with your friend.

[ Friend being the formal word for beloved, since he's guessing that that's what she means. ]

He's from home. I've known him for years. I'm just a little concerned that I'm stuck here.

Oh good, that simplifies things. I think then that you should not worry, because there are very few people here now who were here in the beginning. Everybody else has been swept away by the Door, and I suppose that means they went home, and that everybody does sooner or later. It's just hard to wait.

And you are lucky. If you go home, you have a future with this man. Is your home world a good place? Will you have other things to look forward to, besides the company of this man?

I mean I had plans but I guess at this point I'm kind of used to those getting interrupted.

[ Soft laugh. ] Hadriel certainly is an interruption! -- to everybody's people's plans, I guess. Most people's, at least.

What did you do, in your world? What was your life like? If I may ask.

It was...uh. Complicated. [That's a good safe word for it] I was getting ready to go to college, though.

In my world, there are no real universities. One simply apprentices oneself to a master of the trade or field one wishes to enter, and the master eventually qualifies the student as a master. But your system is a little different, I hear. What were you going to study?

Architecture. So I'll probably do an apprenticeship anyway at some point, but I've always wanted to go to college.

Architecture! That is a very interesting subject. What made you choose it?

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