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Caspar Leyton (brannenford) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-03-05 08:01:00

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fitzwilliam darcy, miguel o'hara, ~caspar leyton

Good morning,

Katarin Tavehi and I have created a space for study in your bookshop or library or whatever you care to call the large space with all the books that are actually in ~~Pretannic~~ our language and not an alien one. Anyone is welcome to use it, but please do not touch any of the new maps or overlays, or any counters you see placed on them. I have drawn a map of my own country and am overlaying it with one of this place called Britain, as I determine what the place-names in the books here mean. I am drawing a map of Katarin Tavehi's country which I understand she is using in her study of military strategy. The maps do take up a fair proportion of the space, but we have brought in other desks should anyone else wish to work there. I am much better at caricatures than maps, but the latter seem more useful here.

If I may turn to another matter, on my very first day here, I am sure that I caught sight of a gentleman riding a horse. I cannot recollect who it might have been, but perhaps one of you would tell me if there are horses here that anyone might ride?

- Leyton

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mrdarcy_
2022-03-05 07:12 pm UTC (link)

Good day to you, sir.

It would be likely to have been myself or Colonel Crawley that you saw riding that day. I'm happy to take you up to the stables and see if we can find a suitable steed for you. There was a Mr Rochester and a Mr Duncan here for a time, both of whom kept horses, and though they have departed the beasts remain. I'm sure any of them would be glad of the exercise and friendship.

Yours in friendship,

Mr Darcy

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	brannenford 2022-03-05 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Mr Darcy, That is indeed a most friendly offer and I shall be very glad to accept it. It is a pity that I must come by my horse by way of the misfortune of these other men, but I shall see that it is exceptionally well cared for. I have always been partial to riding. When would you like to meet? Sincerely, Caspar Leyton (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mrdarcy_ 2022-03-07 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	Mr Leyton, I wouldn't have said it was a misfortune. They are not dead, simply returned to their own time, and there they will presumably find their own horses quite well. It is simply a strange quirk of this place that property remains. I am free this afternoon, if it is not too soon. Yours, Darcy (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

brannenford
2022-03-08 02:15 pm UTC (link)

Mr Darcy,

That is something of a relief! I would not have turned them down, mark it, but it is ill-omened to purchase the horse of a dead man. I will come to understand the ways of this place eventually, I am sure.

This afternoon will do very well. I am also given to understand, from certain papers presented to me by a Mr Hamilton, that you are responsible for a fencing society in these parts? I will join you, if I may. I learnt while at university.

Yours,
Leyton

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	Darcy miguel_ohara 2022-03-05 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	Make sure he keeps the tracking tags on them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Darcy mrdarcy_ 2022-03-05 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, of course. I will impress the importance of it upon him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Darcy/Miguel miguel_ohara 2022-03-05 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. Yeah. Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)