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Messages - from Emprise du Lion

FORM: Sending Crystals
SENDER: Emprise du Lion scouting party (various messages sent out)
RECIPIENT: To Commander Cullen, to the Magi Council, to friends and family
WHAT: Reports, personal messages, flirting, and general griping about SNOW WHY ALL THE SNOW.
WHEN: Covering the three weeks of Haring
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: Mentions of violence, of physical torture, of death, and of course, complaining. Why snow why.

Further edit: Katniss's post is screwed up because I didn't realize sending crystals are only auditory. So, please if you will, Katniss is making weird noises in the background of her messages. If asked, she will describe what she is doing.

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Look, just because some people thought I was once...aye, well, never mind that. I'm just as solid as you are, and if we weren't talking over this crystal thing I'd prove it, too.

[How, he doesn't know, but he'd think of something.]

And mostly the stars are wee bits of light like they are down here. You can't get so close to them because they're very hot. You'd burn right up. Planets, now, that's another story.

Someone has already thought you were a ghost too ... you have led a very interesting life, Jamie, I must say.

[She laughs at that.] Why do I have a feeling it would include poking me in the ear?

[Planets ... she's never even heard of such a word.] What are planets?

Aye, well, maybe so. Although that one was my own fault, to tell you the truth. I'll explain it sometime, if you like.

[Once he actually gets around to explaining time travel and why it's a bad idea to go change things in your own personal timeline, but if she doesn't know what a planet is it's probably better if he holds back on that end for a bit longer yet. And explain what a planet is, too.]

You don't know about those, then? Right, let's see,then...mm. Oh, I know! Do you use the word continent around here to describe a large mass of land?

I would be delighted to hear this story. Probably over a bottle of cider and some food.

[Because it sounded like the kind of adventure that required it, honestly. She paused, frowning.]

I know ... Thedas is a continent. Not sure if there are any others?

[Having the bottle and the cider there for it couldn't hurt, that's for sure - and he nods in agreement with that notion. That's for later, though. For now he's got to get through his current explanation.]

Well, likely there are. Maybe just not ones folk know about. Anyway, you take a couple of these continents and some bodies of water and maybe some islands and the like and put them all together and you've got a planet. Or a world, if you like. You can use either one..and a space ship will let you travel between planets so you can visit more than one of them. Like if you traveled between continents on a regular ship, only larger. Does that make sense?

[Katniss looked at him, her eyes widening as he kept going. She nodded her head slowly, her mouth pressing together as she considered all of these things. Then she rubbed her forehead for a moment, tilting her head at him.]

..It makes sense. It's just -- it's so vast. It's unbelievable that so much exists. I mean, I'm from a land where the mountains stretch forever. To think there are hundreds, thousands of mountains? Wow. Just wow.

Aye, and that's not counting all the other places that aren't mountains.

[Or even on planets themselves, like moons and space stations, but he'll leave out that part of it unless she asks. He knows what it's like to try and wrap one's head around that sort of thing.]

I'll not say as it was easy to get used to the idea when I first left Scotland, that's for sure. It's easier if you don't try to think about it like that, though. To tell you the truth, most of the time I don't think about it at all. We were too busy getting caught up in some trouble or other to have time to think.

Maker's Breath ...

[That was more land that she could imagine, More land that should exist, and yet it did. Easily fitting on a planet.

She nodded slowly, because if Jamie could wrap his mind around it, she could too. They grew up worlds apart and yet so very close to the same.]

... Did you get into a lot of proper scrapes then?

Aye, well, let me put it this way. That spaceship I mentioned? You'd never know where you'd wind up when you were in it.

[Or when, for that matter, but that part's not so important right now, and he decides to just skip that bit too and go on with the rest of it.]

And you'd never know who you'd meet. But no matter where we'd go, there'd be something that wound up happening, and before we knew it, we'd be in it right up to our necks. So aye, I'd say we wound up in our fair share of scrapes. Not that I'd change that, mind.

So it was a spaceship that ... didn't actually go where you wanted it to go? It sounds like it was broken. Why would you travel on a broken ship?

[Katniss has never been on a boat in her life and even as bold as she was, she's fairly certain she would avoid that. One corner of her mouth lifted.]

... so, you've joined the right group then?

Oh, it wasn't broken according to the Doctor. He'd just say that it needed a wee bit of tuning or that he could steer it just fine. And then he'd tried to take us to Mars and we'd wind up on the moon.

[Despite himself, there's a hint of fondness in his tone. For all the likes to tease the Doctor about his lack of ability when it came to flying the TARDIS - or liked, now - he's always enjoyed the adventure that's come along with it. And part of that adventure's been turning up in new places - like this one.]

Here, you mean? Well, maybe I'll not be going to new planets again any time soon. But...aye, I think so.

Hmmm. I am thinking his steering could have used a little tweaking itself.

[Was her dry response, but she can see Jamie is fond of the man called 'The Doctor', before her mouth twitched up at the corners.]

Thedas really is different ... planets on its own. At least culturally.

Oh, aye. That's what I keep telling him. Or...well, what I used to.

[He doesn't want to think about that, however. Not right now, and he pushes the thought aside to focus on the rest of what she's said.]

I've noticed that other part, though. Maybe once you get back we can meet up and we can exchange some stories.

Well, I hope some day you get to again.

[She said quietly, before she smiled softly.]

I'd like that, Jamie. I should ... get going though. Talk to you soon?

Aye, that sounds good. Good luck with the scouting, then.

[There's a bit of a smile in his voice as well, lingering for a moment before he goes and disconnects the crystal.]

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