athousandcurses: (Silence)
Grainne ([personal profile] athousandcurses) wrote in [community profile] resort_link2015-01-06 05:12 am

video

I know that we are here voluntarily, and as such this may seem like an odd question to ask...

How do you adjust to not only come from a different planet, but a universe where everything is different? Does it make you happy or do you feel ever more homesick? I have heard it said that something familiar changed only a bit can be more unsettling than something completely alien.
una_persson: (the entropy tango)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-09 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Who is this woman, Una wonders.]

They are certainly the most difficult to quantify and predict, it's true. [A wry look.] Sometimes trans-temporal travel seems easy by comparison.
una_persson: (distant)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-12 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Una considers her response before answering. That she's an adept in transtemporal travel is no real secret, given her job description, but there are matters on which she is sworn to secrecy nevertheless. Still, she can give Grainne an answer.]

I am part of a small group of people who have learned how to navigate what some call the time-streams, others the moonbeam roads between the worlds. We are explorers and scientists, and we try to help those who have become lost in time themselves.
una_persson: (what?)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-12 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I've encountered time-streams where life has failed to persist, for one reason or another. Or where intelligent life has failed to thrive. I don't think I've ever found one where any kind of life never existed at all.

But then, there's a first time for everything, as they say.
una_persson: (the entropy tango)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-12 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Yes, I've seen that before myself, I'm afraid.

It's not a pretty sight, is it?
una_persson: (swinging london)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-13 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[A pause, and then Una just decides to go all in, because she really feels for this woman.]

Is there some way in which I might be able to ... help?
una_persson: (profile)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-13 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Una nods, her expression gentle and sympathetic.]

Not really. Only time, if that. I'm sorry.
una_persson: (what?)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-14 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Two...thousand years?]

...May I ask you something?
una_persson: (wide eyes)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-14 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Where and when are you from, exactly?
una_persson: (aha!)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-15 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoops. Rookie mistake.]

Oh, sorry, no, I meant—to begin with.

[Two thousand years before...?]
una_persson: (wide eyes)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-17 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)

Ah.

[Una lets out a little exhalation, sort of the reverse of a gasp.]

And here I'm the one used to wrong-footing people over matters of Time. [Though clearly she doesn't resent Grainne for this; indeed she's rather amused.] I hope I haven't been accidentally condescending.

una_persson: (profile)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't often run across people with two thousand years of life experience. I tend to assume that most people live in a linear mode for ordinary spans.

...I'm Una, by the way. I don't think I mentioned. Terribly rude of me.
una_persson: (sweet)

[personal profile] una_persson 2015-01-21 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Una feels like she's picked and prodded quite enough for the time being.]

The pleasure's all mine. I'll see more of you about, I hope?

(no subject)

[personal profile] una_persson - 2015-01-22 19:04 (UTC) - Expand