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[jilt]

[ irene's not sitting in her room, she's sitting in someone else's. namely, the room that once belonged to her version of sherlock holmes. on her index finger are three gold rings that she fidgets idly with while she speaks. ]

I see our very own cautionary tale has graced us with an echo. For those newly arrived, I'd say pay attention to that, and note what happens if you don't get yourself into a pod before the jump time. It leaves in quite a mess, or so I'm told.

[ there's a clink of rings as she shakes them off, letting them fall onto the side table, edging them lightly into place with her fingertips. ]

Now, having that settled, I suppose I'd ask an introduction on the part of those newly arrived. All those newly arrived. In all the chaos of your arrival, it's only polite that we all introduce ourselves. We are to be living in rather close quarters for the foreseeable future, are we not?

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[acapriciousthing]

Fortunately, most of the others I've met like that never had access to that sort of power.

[jilt]

And what happened in the end, to that man? Did you witness it before you arrived here?

[acapriciousthing]

He died. They always do, eventually.

[jilt]

And all were returned? Or simply passed off to other places?

[acapriciousthing]

We couldn't leave, in the end.

Except, apparently, we could after all.

[jilt]

You were lucky then. Or unlucky, depending on how you look at it.

[acapriciousthing]

I would have been concerned, if I hadn't known the rest of me was still out there.

[jilt]

The rest of you?

[acapriciousthing]

I'm not a person, I'm an idea. And ideas tend to be everywhere.

[jilt]

That seems overly grand a notion for someone to hold.

[acapriciousthing]

Certain fundamental concepts are.

[jilt]

I assume it makes introductions quite difficult.

[acapriciousthing]

I get a lot of people who expected something else.

[jilt]

It does many good to have their expectations dashed.

[acapriciousthing]

They usually expect someone creepy. I think it's better this way.

[jilt]

Why?

[acapriciousthing]

Because dying is scary enough as it is.

[jilt]

One would imagine.

[ forever noncommittal, although lol irene sure knows. ]

[acapriciousthing]

I don't have to imagine.

[jilt]

Because you know, I assume.

[acapriciousthing]

Exactly.

[jilt]

It seems a rather fantastic claim, even among all the others I've seen.

[acapriciousthing]

To have died before?

[jilt]

Yes. Or it was, before I was here.

[acapriciousthing]

It is unusual most places. But someone once asked me how I'd like it.