[002] ota

[coppelganger]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Sarah Manning
RECIPIENT: Everyonnne
WHAT: Late night drunk dialing
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: n/a

So what do you actually do for fun around here? Besides drinking or sex. [ Because she already knows the joy of those, obviously. ] Do you have hobbies.

Comments

[coppelganger]

What do you mean? What would happen?

[ She's getting a bit concerned. ]

[rathercommon]

Well - you know.

[ A small shrug. ]

People go missing, all that. [ Or. ] That's - not a problem in your world?

[coppelganger]

Uh... well, it is, but not for most people.

[rathercommon]

Mm. And your police are - human?

[coppelganger]

As far as I know. I'm taking it yours aren't human?

[rathercommon]

Some of them are. But most are werewolves.

[coppelganger]

[ That makes her raise an eyebrow. ]

Werewolves.

[rathercommon]

Yeah. What, is it hard to believe that werewolves can be police?

[coppelganger]

Werewolves are fictional where I'm from. [ A pause. ] As far as I know.

[rathercommon]

Fictional?

[ Puzzled: ]

Meaning, like - extinct?

[coppelganger]

No... meaning like never existed at all.

[rathercommon]

But you've got stories about them. Why would you have stories about 'em if you never had 'em?

[coppelganger]

Your world doesn't have any stories about things that don't exist?

[rathercommon]

Of course we do. But we haven't got stories about things that actually do exist in other worlds. Do you see? It's like - somehow, in your world, you know something about mine. And that's weird.

[coppelganger]

How do you know the things in your stories don't exist in other worlds? There's a woman here whose world was overrun by zombies, for Chrissake.

[rathercommon]

Sure, fine. But the fact is still that your world is writing about things that exist in others. How?

[coppelganger]

I don't know the answer to that. I'm sorry. I really am.