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Tweak says, "Did you steal my spork?"

Thea Greenberg (greengroweth) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-12-16 22:23:00

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amy pond, ariadne, hospitaller, nick fury

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So this is a magical book. And everyone talks to each other in it. (Don't worry, I did the background reading and paged through the conversations that have been going on for the past two weeks or so. It seemed like the sensible thing to do, and you all are so informative.) Which means all of you are real, and milling about through this city somewhere, and I will probably encounter at least some of you eventually. It also means that I'm not crazy, I'm not the only one who hears thing, and apparently, the mumbling in Latin is at least somewhat standard issue for these voices.

This is all good to know. It has done a great deal for my perspective on my own sanity. I appreciate that immensely.

So I'm Svetlana. The voice in my brain is named Katherine. We're pleased to meet you. Because this is not the world's weirdest introduction or anything, not at all.

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	hospitaller 2012-12-17 03:45 am UTC (link)
	I think it's just my crazy knight that mumbles in Latin, but I'm glad if anything he said made you feel less alone. When he started carrying on I felt a bit crazy myself. I'm Gemma, the voice is Miles. Is Katherine from the Middle Ages too? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Er, depends on your definition of the Middle Ages, I guess. 16th century, which ... I guess counts? English history wasn't really my forte in school. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hospitaller 2012-12-17 04:25 am UTC (link)
	...close enough? I think it's probably close enough. Is Katherine mumbling prayers too? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 04:30 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't know. I don't really have a good grasp of Latin. It was never something I studied. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:02 am UTC (link)
	Me either, I discovered I don't need to know any for Miles to write it. I have no idea what he talks about when he writes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Which means she probably won't have grasps of languages I know that she doesn't. Though I think she has me beat -- she has French, Spanish, English, Latin, and Greek. I'm completely out-classed! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Wow. That's a lot of languages. I think Miles knows French and Latin. But it's weird French, I don't recognize most of what he says, though I mostly only remember words about ballet so that might be why. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:26 am UTC (link)
	I have a fair bit of French, I might be able to understand it. My specialty is Slavic languages, though. So Miles is medieval French? That's weird. Are there a lot of medieval people? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Slavic languages? I know a little bit of Russian, it's not very good though, I haven't practiced in years. I think Miles is the only one. I'm not sure though. I think he's kind of lonely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Yes, mostly Russian. Fairly fluently. With a name like Svetlana, I was almost are doomed to it, you know? Poor guy. Maybe my Katherine will be medieval enough for him? At least she speaks Latin. Which I guess makes her Catholic or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:54 am UTC (link)
	There's a few Russians in the Birmingham Royal Ballet, everybody picks up a little, even if it's just profanity. Maybe! I think Miles is a priest or something, he's a kind of knight-priest called a hospitaller (I watched a movie about this), he prays an awful lot. Mostly I think he's lonely and might like some company a little less... modern. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:56 am UTC (link)
	A priest would be good! I think. My knowledge of Catholicism is really limited. (Really really limited.) Katherine would probably like a priest around. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:08 am UTC (link)
	You seem way too okay with this. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:11 am UTC (link)
	Is everybody in the family getting exiled here? (Please tell me you're not exiled or on the run or something?) And also, after some of the things I've seen, this is probably the least worrisome. I have learned to roll with the punches at this point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:13 am UTC (link)
	[...] Sveta? I haven't talked to you in years. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:16 am UTC (link)
	Nobody has. Trust me, it is complicated. Ridiculously, utterly complicated. This is the smallest tip of the iceberg. So you've got one, too? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:18 am UTC (link)
	[...] I don't think I want to know. You're okay though? If by one, you mean an obnoxious voice, then yes. It couldn't have happened at a worse time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Oh, it is so complicated, you have no idea. I know I've been out of contact for a few years, it was by necessity, not design. There are problems. Charlie, how safe as these books, do you know? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:26 am UTC (link)
	I'm sure it wasn't just you. I've been [...] busy. You know, with school and everything. I'm not sure. I didn't think I'd recognize anyone on here. I doubt it's secure though. Anyone with a [...] voice seems to have one and there's no telling who has one that simply isn't participating in this lunacy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:33 am UTC (link)
	That's what I'm afraid of. It's really complicated, Charlie. Really complicated. I have to be very careful. This is just one big dose of crazy on top of the rest of it. Grandma talked a bit about your schooling and all. She's really proud of you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:35 am UTC (link)
	[...] Complicated because of? She was really happy until I turned down the position with the CIA. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Well, that's grandparents for you. You'll do okay. Fed work is overrated. It's just complicated. Because of reasons back home. Reasons tend to follow you whenever you go somewhere new. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:41 am UTC (link)
	That's right, you were in the State Department, weren't you? There's nothing you can do? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, for a couple of years. If you were really invested in that, I could hook you up, I still have friends. Sweetheart, sometimes when you're in deep, you just have to hold fast and pray it doesn't close over your head. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:44 am UTC (link)
	I can't. Not with this [...] voice in my head. Now I'm more than a little worried about you, Sveta. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Fair enough. You don't want that kind of weirdo security breach. Don't worry too much. You doing okay, kiddo? You need anything? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:48 am UTC (link)
	I just don't want to put anyone at risk. Alright. As well as can be expected. I start at the Police Academy after the 1st, so I'm looking for a place to live instead of having to commute in from the ranch. Otherwise, it's just waiting and trying to figure out about this girl in my head. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:50 am UTC (link)
	I can't offer you a place here. I would if I could. But if there's anything I can do, let me know. I'm really happy to help, however I can. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:52 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't fishing, Sveta, but [...] maybe I could find a place close by? If it wouldn't complicate things any more than they already are? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:54 am UTC (link)
	No, I don't think it would at all. I'm way downtown, which is really rich for anyone's blood. Believe me, it wasn't my first choice, not in the slightest. But having someone friendly near, that would do me a world of good, I think. Do you want to do some apartment hunting? Maybe find a relator? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Charlie/Svetlana building_dreams 2012-12-17 05:56 am UTC (link)
	I don't know if I can afford something pricey, but maybe we'll get lucky and I'll find a good deal? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	[after considerable goading from Gemma, Miles finally writes. He does so privately.] How might a knight of St. John properly address a woman of such learning? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	[with some finagling, Katherine gets control of the pen, and writes back in lovely Tudor script, in fluent Latin, of course.] Brother-Knight, I am Katherine, Queen of England, Ireland, and France. But in all things, I am a dutiful, loving daughter of our Holy Father. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Your Majesty, if I may help you in the troubles of your isolation, I am at your service. I am late come from my order's holdings in the Holy Land, though that was long ago even to you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	To my knowledge, there has not been an Order of St John in Jerusalem for nigh three hundred years, but I understand that my world is long gone, never to be recovered. Good Brother, you are far from home, indeed. But are we all not so very far to sea? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	My world was lost at Hattin, if you know of that. But there is some way by which you may pass into the world you knew. I do not know much more than that, but the woman you live with now has a key inside. That is how you may return to your throne, your grace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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greengroweth
2012-12-17 05:41 pm UTC (link)

All of Christendom knows of Hattin, good Brother, and mourns the loss. Jerusalem is never far from our hearts or our prayers.

But returning to my home will not restore me to my throne, to my sorrow. I am queen, but not accorded the dignity of truth. My husband set me aside, and I perished in exile and shame, his true wife, while my replacement wore my jewels and my crown falsely, and raised a bastard over the legitimate child of the king, dragging all of England into sin and falsehood. Has any queen borne such sorrow as this?

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	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	I am greatly saddened by your trouble, both for you and for England, my lady. I shall set your hardship before God. If I can be any comfort, or if there can be any easing of your sorrow, I took the vows of priest as well as knight. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Then I should rightly call you Father. I apologise, I did not know. Can dead souls left in the world take the sacraments? Is such a thing possible? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

The Hospitaller/Katherine

hospitaller
2012-12-17 05:59 pm UTC (link)

In my day I abandoned all titles but brother, for I am least of all God's sons. Please do not trouble yourself, I am only Brother Miles. If God did not want you to take the sacraments would he have sent you one who can administer them? If the two women we live with now were to meet I would give it and take your confessions, and whatever else I might ease your soul.

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	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	You may call yourself the least, but in this moment, Brother, you are as dear and welcome to me as the Angel Gabriel. I shall endeavour to make such a meeting possible. Long has it been since I have had the delight of the Eucharist, and such gladness it would bring me to have its sweetness again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	I shall trouble my woman, and you yours, and surely the time of our meeting shall not be far away from then. Take heart, my lady, and do not abandon your prayers, for even still God cares for you and has not abandoned you yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	My prayers remain my one comfort. Never would I abandon them, not when Our Lady has been my refuge when all else has failed me. Soon, I shall see you, and soon, these things will come to pass. Thank you, Brother, for you have given me hope. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shootempolitely 2012-12-17 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Mumbling in Latin is standard issue? I feel as though I've been denied something with my voice, if that's what we call them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I did qualify it with "somewhat." There is apparently a niche market of people who mumble in Latin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shootempolitely 2012-12-17 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	One ought to be able to trade. Exchange talents. 'I'll take mumbling in Latin in exchange for muttering about the Cold War'. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	I could follow muttering about the Cold War much better than I could Latin, that's for damn sure. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shootempolitely 2012-12-17 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know. There are very few wasted words in Latin and far too many in America circa 1960. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shootempolitely 2012-12-17 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	And I would be infinitely happier if I couldn't comprehend dark murmurings about all things Russia. (Reply to this) (Parent)