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Post by Echo on Nov 8, 2013 19:51:33 GMT
'What are you doing?' A fiery redhead wearing obscenely bright colours swung her leg lazily, dangling it off the branch she was sitting on. She leaned back against the trunk of her tree and looked carefully through the newcomer's eyes. "He can't see me yet" she mumbled to herself "which means he can't hear me either... No point calling to him then."
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A Ten Foot Pole
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Post by A Ten Foot Pole on Nov 8, 2013 20:27:23 GMT
Despite being unsure of the need, he spoke again. "Rudyard Kipling, sweetheart."
Seven. Six. Eleven. Five. Nine and twenty miles today. Four. Eleven. Seventeen. Thirty two the day before. Boots. Boots. Boots. Boots. Moving up and down again. There's no discharge in the war!
He'd been using the chant to keep his mind from speaking to him, but he could still hear the voice. He continued the chant aloud until he reached the brush.
"Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Look at what's in front of you. Boots. Boots. Boots. Boots. Moving up and down again. Men. Men. Men. Men. Men go mad with watching them. There's no discharge in the war!"
Michael stepped over roots, pushed through shrubs, and wove through the trees until he felt comfortably hidden. He leaned against a tree as he finished the last lines of the poem.
"I have marched six weeks in Hell and certify. It is not fire, devils, dark, or anything. But boots, boots, boots, boots, moving up and down again."
He lit another cigarette and took a drag before he finished,
"And there's no discharge in the war." He paused for a moment, appreciating the relevance. "It's just you and me, now. Perhaps me and me. Regardless, I don't figure I'm in Nebrahoma anymore. What do you figure we should do?"
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Post by Echo on Nov 8, 2013 23:43:54 GMT
"Hi!" Called a cheery voice above his head. The same cheery voice that had been in his head not long ago. The girl swung down from her branch, landing nimbly on her feet in a tumble of colour. She looked younger than she was, but she'd often felt younger than she was too, so that made little difference in the grand scheme of things. Truthfully, she'd turned twenty not long ago. At least, she thought it was twenty; living at HQ confused things to do with time sometimes. "Who're you?" She smiled her sweetest puzzled smile at him.
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A Ten Foot Pole
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Post by A Ten Foot Pole on Nov 9, 2013 19:15:12 GMT
Hearing an audible voice, he reached for his rifle and looked for the source. When his eyes met with the form of a colorful young lady, he let his weapon hang from his shoulders as he watched her swing down.
"Hello there. I am intensely glad that you are not just a disembodied voice." He stooped down and pulled a bit of soil away from the roots of the tree he had leaned against, pushing the butt of his cigarette under. "My name is Michael, and I'm not entirely from around here." Staying crouched to keep his eyes at her level, he spoke as softly as he could manage, trying to keep his nervous excitement to himself.
"I'd like you to forget that poem I was saying, and tell me all about yourself while you show me where more people are."
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Post by Echo on Nov 10, 2013 0:46:48 GMT
The girl raised an eyebrow at him and never took her eyes from his lips. She laughed when he admitted to not being from around here. "Yeah, the people from around here don't tend to be in open spaces when They're out there." She gave the word 'they're' particular emphasis, clearly meaning the things Michael had run into in the field. "Except for me, but then I'm not really from around here either. The name's Emilie." She held out a hand for him to shake.
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A Ten Foot Pole
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Post by A Ten Foot Pole on Nov 10, 2013 19:47:08 GMT
Michael took her hand in his and gave it a gentle shake. It was odd; he couldn't remember the last time he'd touched a child. He had no children of his own and, while he occasionally saw children during his missions in the past, he had no reason to pay them much attention. Her hand seemed so delicate in his, he felt like he could break it if he weren't careful. She made him feel like a monster.
"Pleasure to meet you, Emilie. Can you take me back to where you're from?"
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Post by Echo on Nov 11, 2013 1:40:23 GMT
Emilie laughed, but the phrase 'I'm not a child' forced its way into Michael's mind. "That'll take some doing" she said "gotta wait for the portal to open up again." Emilie felt through the top layer of his mind and raised her eyebrows in less-than-mild surprise. "Earth parallel, of course, where else would you be from." She said aloud, though it was more to herself than Michael, and was a silly and pointless thing to do, but old habits die hard.
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Post by A Ten Foot Pole on Nov 13, 2013 19:59:50 GMT
"I don't know about the 'parallel', but I'm not sure where I could be from besides Earth." Michael was having difficulty communicating; having conversations on two different levels was something that he wasn't entirely familiar with. He attempted to keep his mind focused on the audible discussion. After a deep breath, held for a moment, and exhaled slowly, he continued.
"I'm gonna tell you something you may or may not have noticed already. If everything worked as intended, I have come from the past. 2013 A.D., by the calendar we used at the time. I'm not a clever man in general, but I'm not sure what portal you're talking about. As for being from Earth, I'd like to know about interplanetary travel, if that's commonplace."
He realized he was rambling and stopped. He gathered himself. This was not the time or the place. "I have many questions, I suppose, and I'm sure that they will be answered outside of a forest. What can we do about this portal?"
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Post by Echo on Nov 14, 2013 0:08:45 GMT
"Not a lot" Emilie admitted, still not taking her eyes from the newcomer's lips "I'm afraid they tend to come and go at the will of the masters for the moment." 'Inter-planetary travel, on the other hand,' she continued in thought 'to be honest, I don't know if this world has it yet. I get my Earth Parallels confused with each other a lot - they're all so similar. ' She decided she'd better explain a little, clearly she was confusing the poor man. "When I said 'I'm not from around here' I really meant it. I'm from a whole different world, friend."
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