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Caspian X (caspianseafarer) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-05-17 21:24:00

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active, alexandra fielding, caspian, day nine

WHO: Caspian and OPEN
WHEN: Day 9, evening
WHAT: Discovering the amusement park
WHERE: The amusement park?
RATING: TBA
STATUS: Incomplete

Caspian had won the maze, but not his freedom. And while he wasn't entirely sure he wanted it, given the alternative, the option would have been nice. Not that he particularly expected Jareth to give anyone options about anything, but the point was still valid. At any rate, he'd beaten the maze with the help (or not) of his companions, and had spent the next day or so wandering around his new homelike area, investigating the house and the Goblin City, getting his bearings yet again.

Then he decided to try out the teleportation device, and see how the others were getting on in the City of Illusion. So, after a painless, but odd, bit of magic, Caspian found himself in his old quarters in the dorms. Easy enough, though he wasn't entirely sure how frequently he was going to be making that trip back and forth. It was a bit unnerving, after all.

Walking out of the dorms, Caspian stopped short. It was Christmas, though that was fine, if a bit odd. They had Christmas in Narnia, after all, so that wasn't anything to be alarmed about, other than the drastic weather change. What had stopped him in his tracks were the huge metal things looming overhead. There were people in them, laughing and...screaming? But everyone looked so happy. Where as Caspian, for the first time in fifty years, felt like the scared little boy that had told Aslan that he didn't think himself ready to rule.

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keeperofthemoon
2009-05-20 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Alex noticed the expression in Caspian's face change and felt a little sorry for him. He had been so excited before about Earth but now just looked dissapointed. "I'm sure you'd like it there if you went." she said trying to make him feel a bit better. "I've only been to a few places that were nothing special. But Narnia..." she let out a small laugh, "That sounds like an interesting place. Flat with the water pouring endlessly? What would happen if you fall off the edge?"

She leaned back in the seat as the ride slowly moved them first forward then backwards in the circle of the wheel. Alex looked out across the view of the maze of the labyrinth wondering what was in all of it's corners when she felt Caspian brush some of her hair back behind her ear. She turned back at him confused. "Dryad? I'm not sure what exactly that is."

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caspianseafarer
2009-05-20 08:13 pm UTC (link)

He was sure that she'd be right, if only he could get there for more than a few moments. But, he couldn't. It was a long story, and not one that he felt this kind woman deserved to have lain on her shoulders, so he merely smiled at her offer. "You would most assuredly not come back to tell the story," he returned with a smile, a slightly teasing light in his eyes. "No one knows."

Alex wasn't the first person he had met with no knowledge of the spirits that Caspian had no doubt surrounded them all, and so he merely smiled at her question. At least he had his answer in her confusion. "A tree spirit," he said simply. "It's very rare to see them so far away from their tree, but I thought that perhaps you might be one of their kind, or something similar. I've not ever seen hair like yours without some magical element attached to it," he admitted. And even then, her hair was still different from what he was used to.

"It's beautiful, and fascinating," he admitted, having a bit of a hard time keeping his fingers off of it as he watched it catch the light in all its different shades. "Would it be terribly rude of me to inquire after what you are?" he asked, giving her a hopeful smile.

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keeperofthemoon
2009-05-20 09:23 pm UTC (link)

Alex nodded in understanding. To her this all was too surreal. Narnia? Flat world? she shook her head half expecting to wake up in the room she shared with Cam.

"Tree spirit? Huh..." she thought to herself. Great...more fairytale stuff... she thought to herself but suddenly felt a bit selfish. She did exist didn't she? So if witches could exist why couldn't a tree spirit of some sort?

She smiled at him when he complimamented her hair. Though she had dyed it at first to frighten and offened, with the long hair being choped off to a bob with blue streaks; it has sense grown out to it's original length just with black and pink instead. "Thank you." she said feeling a bit awkward that he was staring at it with such interest. "It changes a lot so when I get bored I mess with the cut, style, and color." she shrugged.

Alex was unsure how to answer Caspian. "I'm a girl." she tried to brush it off as nothing but, seriously? Reality check for Alex! She was talking to someone who was supposed to be in a book probably in Cam's bookshelf. She sighed and figured what the hell. Caspian had been honest with her and he seemed like a decent guy. "I'm a witch actually. Though the hair thing is still just hair dye not magic. Though that would be pretty sweet to learn to do." she tried to tag on a joke at the end of it.

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caspianseafarer
2009-05-20 11:36 pm UTC (link)

Caspian listened to her explanation, forcing his hand back into his lap where it might behave herself, though he still couldn't help but watch the way it caught the light, just the same.

Then she forked over the vital information, though apparently it really had nothing to do with her hair. Part of him wanted to ask if she was an evil witch or a good one, but well, she didn't have to answer honestly, and in that vein, she hadn't needed to tell him at all. So he supposed that she was a good one, and really, it would have been unforgivably rude to ask.

"What sort of witch are you?" he asked easily, as if this were a conversation he'd had every day of his life. Which wasn't entirely true, but still. "Magic and those who wield it are not uncommon in my land," he explained.

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keeperofthemoon
2009-05-20 11:45 pm UTC (link)

Alex was rather surprised by his nonchalant way of accepting the information. Most people she knew would freak out at the mention of something like that. God knows she flipped when she realized what she was. Then again it was the same day she found out she was adopted and had a twin sister she never met on the other side of the country.

"Well I'm just a fledling at the moment. Though I was about to be let go and become the leader of the new generation of witches and warlocks. Me and my sister, I mean." talking about it felt alright in Alex. A lot less nerve-racking that she had expected it to be. It actually felt...nice to be able to have someone besides Cam to talk to.

She shrugged when he said how common it was in his land. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised really. Flat world and magic...is there anything you don't have that sounds so..." she couldn't think of the right word to describe it. It was just interesting and different to her. Though she had wanted different when she was younger and got it in the package of a sister and magic, Caspian's world seemed a lot more than hers.

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caspianseafarer
2009-05-21 08:46 am UTC (link)

He listened to her story politely, and though there was little of it that he truly understood all the details of, he could understand the destiny to rule. "You were to be a queen then?" he asked, tilting his head to the side. "As well as your sister?" There wasn't surprise, just genuine curiosity there, as Caspian had certainly heard of multiple kings and queens ruling at the same time before.

"That sounds so what?" he asked, raising a brow. The things in his world weren't fantastical to him, and so it took him a minute to catch on to what she was getting at. "We have normal things too. Homes and towns and schools and people," he shrugged.

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keeperofthemoon
2009-05-21 09:30 am UTC (link)

Alex had never really thought about it as being a queen. She just knew that Karsh and Illeana had made such a big deal about keeping her sister and herself safe to lead the new generation. "I suppose it'd be like that...I'm not sure if I'd have the title of queen but something along those lines I suppose." she wasn't completely sure as to what the title was just what the job entailed. Though she didn't have any time to really get briefed on the subject due to being dragged here.

"So what are you?" she asked then listening to him describe Narnia more. "You have so many magical things, which one are you?"

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