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[ Betraying the heavy mood of the City, the center of town is relatively quiet. Only the soft patter of foot steps here and there and the murmuring of hushed voices reach the air, but if anyone was to pay attention, they might notice a orange-yellow orb making a low course across the sky. An orb that's heading for a direct target-- which just happens to be a certain [livejournal.com profile] shiningdown. Ironic, isn't it? And the orb dips, gaining speed as it begins to fall toward earth, the light peeling back to reveal a young man with look of death (or at least shock) across his face. Finally he reaches his target, colliding directly into the woman, and in turn knocking them both into the fountain. There's a rather loud splash, as there obviously would be. ]

Oh, Mother! Mother, I've gotten you all wet!

[ absolutely furious splashing, like someone's just flailed her arms in exasperation...which Yvaine has ] Mother? Who's 'Mother'? Ow, would you get off of me already? ... [some more indignant splashing]

You are my mother! [he still hasn't gotten off her yet, probably too caught up in the moment to realize that he just might be heavy.] See, I've got this candle- I've got the candle you gave me, and I thought of you just like I was supposed to...then suddenly I was here!

[ a long pause........silence.....maybe just the sound of the fountain ] I'm as much your mother as you are a genius. Weren't you listening? I said, move! [the sound of...well she's trying to push him over now, not really caring if she tips him right over back into the fountain next to her or not because...he Isn't Listening fff ]

[ he lands beside her with another splash, choking on a gulp of water in the same motion.] But this candle is- [a fit of coughs] ...this candle should have taken me to my mother! Unless-- [ there's a stunned look on his face, his mouth half agape and eyes wide as he focuses them on Yvaine. ]

...I was thinking of my mother, and then Victoria popped in my head -- the star! I was thinking of the star! Then why- then why am I here in a fountain? On top of a woman! There's no star around here! Is this ruddy candle broken or something?

[ equally stunned silence but not of astonishment...unless you count astonishment by what Yvaine considers the closest personification of the word idiocy she's ever been so unfortunate to encounter ] ...of course. It had nothing to do with you not being able to follow simple directions. [sarcasm, would you like some more? because there IS more...lots]

You're unnecessarily cruel, you know that?

Only if you've earned it!

How have I earned it? I haven't done anything to you!

baaaaaaaaaaaw Tristan

Date: 2009-09-14 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
That's good. Everyone deserves a loving father.

I have never been to Earth...but I have always wanted to visit.

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
You'll make a good father, really-

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
...Never been to earth? You've never been to earth? You said you went over the Wall once, but ... you never said- But I- I see you every day!

[ silence ]
Edited Date: 2009-09-14 07:13 am (UTC)

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
[...That means a lot more than you might think it means, Tristan.]

Date: 2009-09-14 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
My people came through a chasm if that means anything...and my friends came through the Wardrobe...and they all left through a door in the air.

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
[ He would be happy to know that, even when he finds out the truth. Because he still wears the face of his father, albeit his younger features, and that's enough for him to care. ]

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
Those ... are all really strange entrances. Though I guess even a wall is too, when you think about it. Any sort of entrance to another world is enough to call strange.

[a pause]

I've never been over it, of course. At least- Unless ... Unless I'm over it now. [another pause, trying to find his words] No one knows much about what's over there, but from what I've heard- from you my father - it's a place that you could call magical. All sorts of fantastic things exist there. Things you'd never imagine you'd see, except in storybooks, of course.

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
You must be over a wall because this is not Earth, and it isn't Narnia either.

[His own pause because though Caspian is sure he is no father, they sure sound like they could be related.]

Date: 2009-09-14 07:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
Are you sure you are not the eleventh of any name? Not a Caspian XI? I am Caspian, tenth of that name, and my world is full of many things most people believe are fantastic. It wasn't always like that, but it is now, indefinitely.

...I have a cousin on Earth who may not ever see the things I have seen.

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Date: 2009-09-14 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
Then where are we? If this is not earth, not ... Narnia, not anywhere one can pinpoint on a map-

[the next two sentences are muttered under his breath]

It is somewhere where a star fell. Perhaps not the one Victoria and I saw, then, if we are no across the wall.

2/3 i lied.

Date: 2009-09-14 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
I am sure that- I am sure that Caspian or any number alongside that is nowhere in my name. Not my middle nor at my last.

My name is Tristan. A name give to me by my mother, I've heard.

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Date: 2009-09-14 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
You're not from earth... Your name is Caspian, my father's name is Dunstan-

None of it matches up. It's like you're- you're not my father at all, even though you have his face. Are you- Is he not telling me things? Events that happened before I was born? He kept that a secret from me for so long--

you are always lying 1/2

Date: 2009-09-14 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
You and your friend are in a place called the City. Many people from many different worlds find themselves here.

Date: 2009-09-14 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
I cannot say...I never had any brothers and my mother and father passed when I was only a boy. I have never left Narnia except to come here.

But if I was your father and a good one as you have said, any reasons for secrecy would have been for your own sake, because someone believed you might be a better man this way.

1/2 it's for your own good

Date: 2009-09-14 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
Why would that blasted candle bring me to a place like that?

She's not my friend.
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
I don't have any idea- Why am I staring at the face I was familiar with as a young child? Or why is your name not right? Or how could you have come from any place but earth, seeing how we live on earth-

I don't know. I can't imagine any reason right now. I- I'm just completely and utterly ... utterly confused right now.
Edited Date: 2009-09-14 08:35 am (UTC)

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Date: 2009-09-14 08:37 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-09-14 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
That is all right, I was very confused when I first came to this world.

There are a few men here who share a similar face yet they are all unrelated.

[Another pause ftloa, incapable of confirming or outright denying it.]

...I didn't mean to make you think your father doesn't like you.

Date: 2009-09-14 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the notion of two people sharing ... the same face. I mean, unless they're twins. But at the same time, that could make a lot sense in this situation. Possibly? I think?

[ a pause of his own. ]

It's alright. I would never worry about that.
Edited Date: 2009-09-14 08:51 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-09-14 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
If I have a twin brother then he has been gone for a very long time...but it would be my pleasure to meet him.

[Wait a second, now he's remembering something, but he keeps this to himself. For now.]

If you or your...not friend need help you can ask for me.

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Date: 2009-09-14 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
If he is your twin brother... It all seems impossible, all these possibilities. But then again, I live in town that borders another world. What can I say- What can I say about impossibilities?

My father is a kind man. Not unlike yourself I'm sure you'd like him.

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Date: 2009-09-14 09:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
Thank you.

...Though you might have to tell her that yourself. My words are useless against the venomous spider-woman.

Date: 2009-09-14 09:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
For a very long time I lived in a castle unaware of the gryphons and centaurs that live beyond our city borders. Many things are possible.

It is my pleasure. And I will do just that.

Date: 2009-09-14 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazingup.livejournal.com
In a castle? Were you not allowed out?

Good luck.

Date: 2009-09-14 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingdawn.livejournal.com
I was, but under strict orders not to visit the forest, and by my time the Narnians had to hide.

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