+1 Lady Flame

[aubreylittle]

Welp. She knew Amnesty Lodge was weird? But opening a door into a multiversal Nexus was sort of above and beyond Kepler weird™. The last she knew, there were a bunch of goat people causing horrible accidents and then she tried to get to the cellar of the Lodge and now she was here.

"Uh....hi?" she asked, trying to grin and look innocent. "Am I dead and hallucinating? Because my life up until right now? Might indicate that is an issue. Sorry."

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omg Ned!

[aubreylittle]

"Ned?"

Her voice is basically a squeak, and her eyes are wide and super surprised. Mainly because....

"I just....saw you? Back in Kepler? Like literally two minutes ago?!"

What is happening. Sure, she'd been through some Weirdsville stuff, but the thought that Ned had a twin brother or something might just be her limit.

[cryptonomica]

"I think it's like Narnia," he tells her cheerfully. Not that he's been in the Nexus a long time, but he's seen the PSA video, read some of the pamphlets, and chatted with an anthropomorphic fox.

"I mean, I think maybe days can go by here and only a few minutes pass back home. Pretty sure Kirby hasn't been worried about me, anyway. This is the second time I've visited."

He frowns, thoughtful. "Although, I wasn't anywhere near the Lodge when I left. How'd you get here?"

[aubreylittle]

"Huh. Narnia. Okay. That's....something. I guess."

She's trying to mull it over, and then she nods a little. The shock is fading into something a little more sure. Which is the Pine Guard in a nutshell, basically. Ned's not the only one good at compartmentalizing.

"Um. I opened the door to the You-Know-What under the You-Know-Where to go see You-Know-Who and then I was here."

She mimes opening not a regular door, but a door that one would pull up and out. The door to the cellar under the lodge.

[cryptonomica]

They're like Alice in Wonderland, if she'd stayed home and Wonderland came to her every couple months. They're learning to just accept what they don't understand and move on, because if they spent all their time going 'WTF' over every strange thing they encountered, they'd never get anything done.

He blinks at her and nods slowly, because he's not sure he does know all of the You-Knows, but he's pretty sure he's got the gist.

"Well, uh, you might want to let Mama or Barclay know about that when you do get back. I mean, I found my way here through an antique hope chest. Who knew it was magic, right? So, you just got here?"

[aubreylittle]

Prying eyes and listening ears, Ned!

"Yeeeeeeah, I really hope that You-Know-Who doesn't try to, uh, get out of the kitchen. And through the door. Um. Anyway! I guess we should, um. Go looking for a talking lion or something? If this is really like Narnia. Or maybe we should tell Mama? I mean should I try to go back now?"

This is hellaciously confusing. But also kinda cool, and she's starting to warm up to the idea that they're in faux-Narnia.

[cryptonomica]

Okay, so Ned has been known to be less than discreet. He's pretty sure no one here is going to bat an eye at real magic, though.

"Are you kidding? This is an opportunity! Did you see the PSA video? All kinds of worlds meet here. Not just ours and potentially Narnia, but...you know, parallel universes. Maybe even--"

He's less than discreet but he's not going to just babble about Sylvain in a public place, either. He coughs meaningfully. "Maybe familiar places we don't usually get to look around. If we're really lucky we might learn something!"

"Last time I was here I talked to a fox wearing a shirt and tie. It's wild. And hey, if worst comes to worst I can let you back home through the hope chest I came through."