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Tweak says, ".......................wiggle?"

lordloxley (lordloxley) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2018-12-02 08:22:00

Entry tags:

tom sully jr, ~robin of loxley

Who: Robin and Tommy
Where: park on wheel four
What: arriving
When: Sunday morning
Rating: tbd
Open: no
Status: ongoing
Everything was going pretty great. The sheriff was dead, the money wasn't going to the "war effort" The people would get what they needed. They were out from under the thumb of the cardinal. And he had Marian by his side again. That was always good.

Walking through the forest, he thought he heard something behind them. Giving Marian a quick kiss, he went to investigate. After determining that they weren'tbeing followed, he turned to go back and everything changed. The forest was different. He ran to catch up but no matter how much he ran, he couldn't find them.

"Marian! John! Tuck!" He turned in a circle. How could he have gotten so lost? He knew Sherwood almost better than he knew Loxley Manor. What was going on?

"MARIAN!"

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lordloxley
2018-12-02 07:53 pm UTC (link)

Robin smiled as Tommy talked excitedly about his science. Definitely reminded him if Tuck. As soon as the stars and the planet came into view he just stood there. Nowhere near Earth. No way to get home. There was a lot to process. It was probably a couple of minutes that he just stood there staring up at the sky.

"No way to get back." It wasn't a question. Maybe they could manage without him. He'd already been presumed dead for two years prior.

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tom_jr
2018-12-02 10:26 pm UTC (link)

"Not that we know of, I'm afraid," Tommy said, clearly willing to let Rob have time to process things. Rawm woke up at that point, and stood up from where he'd been sleeping, curled up at the bottom of one of the telescopes. The dog yawned and stretched, electricity flickering across his fur like little lightning strikes, and then he padded over to sit close to Tommy.

"This is my dog, Rawm," Tommy said to Rob, his hand dropping down to rest on the dog's back. He was completely unbothered by the electricity, in the same way as Rawm was completely unaffected by Tommy's shields. "Rawm, this is Rob. Say hello."

The dog gave a bark, and let his tongue loll out of his mouth as he dropped his jaw in a doggy grin.

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lordloxley
2018-12-02 10:34 pm UTC (link)

Rob just blinked as he watched the lightning travel over the dog's fur. Both seemed to ignore it so he just nodded and allowed a little bit of a smile.

"It's very nice to meet you, Rawm." He'd talked to his horses plenty of times, so a dog wasn't strange at all.

"You seem rather passionate about your astronomy." That had been the word, hadn't it? He was glad to have something to take his mind off being stuck wherever here was.

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tom_jr
2018-12-02 11:29 pm UTC (link)

"I always have been," Tommy said, "even as a kid. But look at this." He brought his phone out from his pocket and quickly brought up a picture of what looked like a multi-colored cloud in space. "This is what that telescope is looking at," he said and pointed at the largest of the three telescopes, then held up the little screen for Rob to look at. "A telescope is a device that lets you see much further than you can with just your eye. Some of them use glass lenses to bend the light, and it lets you see further ahead of you. So if you're sailing a ship, and you have a telescope, you could see further ahead than if you don't have one. Rocks in the way, enemy ships, whatever. This telescope is looking a lot further away, so it's using radiowaves and... I've lost you, haven't I?"

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	lordloxley 2018-12-02 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	The strange thing in Tommy's hand with what looked like an image on it was hard enough to grasp. Then he was talking about the telescope and lenses and it was all a bit much to wrap his head around. "That obvious?" He was sure it had to read in his expression. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tom_jr
2018-12-03 12:12 am UTC (link)

"Sorry," Tommy said as he turned the screen back to himself and thumbed the side button, "I get carried away sometimes." Idiot, he told himself and put his phone back in his pocket before rubbing at the knuckles in his left hand. They were sorer than usual today, he noted, and then looked back at Rob.

"Look, I, uhm. I can explain this to you some other time, if you want. But... You're going to need a place to stay and probably something to eat and drink, if you'd like. Most people live in a different part of the city. Would you like me to take you there?" Rawm had perked up at the mention of eating, and added a curious doggy noise at the end, as if he was trying to join in the conversation.

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lordloxley
2018-12-03 12:17 am UTC (link)

"It's quite alright. You remind me of my friend Tuck. He gets like that sometimes. Says I get this look on my face when things are going over my head. Never really have the heart to stop him, though." He chuckled. At the mention of food and drink Rob realized it'd been almost a full day since he last ate something.

"Some food would be good, yeah. I'm a bit short on coin at the moment...." A lord with nothing in his pockets. Marian would have loved that.

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