Julie Grigio (
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hadriel2018-10-25 08:35 pm
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Sooooo, guys, girls, others. What's the grossest thing you've ever eaten?
[Don't mistake this for her not being concerned about Caedra, and not being concerned about generally everything, but a recent conversation and a recent find has piqued her curiosity enough to ask the question.
For her own answer, she holds up a small, white, chalky-looking cube.]
This one's mine. It's called 'carbtien', and it's basically what we live on back home, because we can't grow enough food for everyone. It's military rations, and I don't know what they put in it, but it doesn't taste of anything and when you try to swallow it, it's like your brain forgets how swallowing works.
[Julie snorts softly and drops the cube down out of sight.]
I found a big bag of them just lying around a couple of weeks ago. Weird, right? I guess I'll keep it safe for if we ever end up starving or something. You might not thank me, though.
[Don't mistake this for her not being concerned about Caedra, and not being concerned about generally everything, but a recent conversation and a recent find has piqued her curiosity enough to ask the question.
For her own answer, she holds up a small, white, chalky-looking cube.]
This one's mine. It's called 'carbtien', and it's basically what we live on back home, because we can't grow enough food for everyone. It's military rations, and I don't know what they put in it, but it doesn't taste of anything and when you try to swallow it, it's like your brain forgets how swallowing works.
[Julie snorts softly and drops the cube down out of sight.]
I found a big bag of them just lying around a couple of weeks ago. Weird, right? I guess I'll keep it safe for if we ever end up starving or something. You might not thank me, though.
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When they had to walk five miles in the snow to get the eel, and they appreciated it!Tyki laughs at the face she makes, a warm laugh without a hint of maliciousness to it.]The eel isn't pleasant, but it's hardly ration cubes. I'm certain you have me beat there. The only reason I went through with the blood was because it was a doctor's order. Not my idea of a good prescription, but you live and learn.
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You must have some weird doctors back home. That kind of thing was done with a few hundred years ago where I'm from.
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I think I'm from a different time than many. Perhaps I'm from your past directly.
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Sure, maybe? Where are you from?
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A girl I've spoken to here referred to it as the Victorian Era. I'm a traveler by choice, but I'm from Portugal. Any of that sound familiar to your past?
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[The Victorian era, too, that's one she knows.]
Guess you could be from my past. Heh, that's wild.
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[Shrug.]
Y'know... you don't... really sound like how I'd think someone from back then would sound.
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[She snorts softly at her own fumbling, and then grins.]
Guess I'm just glad you're not talking like you just walked out of Shakespeare or something.
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I'm so glad I don't. My brother studied Shakespeare in school, and I'm surprised I didn't suffocate myself with how long I hid with a pillow over my head trying to drown him out. Hamlet is lovely, but I can only listen to the monologues so many times.
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[Her nose wrinkles when she grins back at him, quite glad it was taken in good humour. How to respond to people from such different points in time can sometimes be such a guessing game.
She takes a breath in, and dramatically recites--]
To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing end them.
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[Tyki groans, rather dramatically. It's all in play, of course.] Enough of that. It's certainly more appealing coming from you than my weird brother, but I've still heard enough for multiple lifetimes. [He's going to have Shakespearean nightmares at this rate.]
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[She laughs, and tucks a curl of blonde hair behind one ear.] I knew that Juliet one better. You know, the one when she's on the balcony? I had to learn it for a play in school. I think they thought they were being funny.
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[That's charming. He likes Julie already, she has an easy way about her, a kind of casual charisma that makes her easy to chat with. He's thoroughly enjoyed this conversation.
He has a look of false shock and then shakes his head when she brings up that play.] Even in the future no one can escape the bard. You'd think something better would come up after all that time, but sometimes classics stand. Even if I can't stand the classics. [Tyki is both amazed and a little disappointed. Mass military rations and forever regurgitated star crossed lovers? The future is looking bleak]
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Huh, none of them? I always kinda liked The Tempest, you know?
[If they're staying on Shakespeare, that is.]
I-- heh, I found a battered old copy of it while I was travelling with my parents. Kept it until it fell apart.
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[He's fine staying on topic. For now, at least. It's interesting enough, and the conversation seems to move with ease. That helps it stay pleasant.] I've had books like that. I read and reread The Woman In White until there was nothing left but scraps and binding and memories.
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Oh, sure, I mean Shakespeare was a total hack. You know they say he plagiarised a bunch of his work?
[She kind of likes that, though. It's better for people like him to be like that, than to be held up as some kind of untouchable monolith of talent.]
Did you ever read Marlowe?
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He blinks at her comment about the plagiarism. He learns something new every day in Hadriel.] I hadn't a clue, and I'm not surprised in the least. A good many famous people take more than their fair share of someone else's work. But yes, I've read a bit of Marlowe. I'd just sooner take a modern murder mystery on any given day. [Tyki stops for a moment, a thought coming to him that really amuses him.] Modern for me, anyway. Which means it might be taught to others in classical literature. [Very modern books would blow his mind.]
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[Adjusting for Tyki being Victorian and not, in fact, straight out of the Middle Ages, Arthur Conan Doyle sounds about right as a guess.]
Don't think it made it that far yet, but he's still pretty popular.
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Do you like mysteries? Or are you more interested in another genre? [He's surprisingly set on actually keeping the conversation going. That doesn't happen all the time.]
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Julie wonders if Tyki would be as fun to talk to in person.]
It's hard to find books, now. I'll read anything I can get my hands on, but I don't... really get the time. I prefer to paint, if I have some time spare.
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What are you good at?
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Then again, if she's that easily offended they might not get along for long anyway.]
That depends on who you ask. I'd say I'm good at gambling, working, reading and avoiding family functions. My brother would say I'm a talented diplomat and a good dancer. My niece would say I'm a fantastic punching bag. It really just depends on the person's perspective. [He pauses for a moment.] Do you dance at all? It seems to be a missing art here.
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