001 | I forbid ye maidens all | [Video]

[blood_lines]

[The woman posting to the network has sharp features, grey-blue eyes, ash blonde hair, a black leather jacket and a very large cup of coffee. Seems someone has found the kitchen. She looks faintly surprised as the wall unit comes on, then frowns at it.]

So I guess that's what these things do. Okay great. A network.

[To cover her hesitation, Toby takes a large sip from the coffee, then shakes her head.] At least the electricity wasn't shut off entirely. ... You'll have cut me a little slack while I get used to this. I'm not really much one for, uh, "social media" and stuff. Never thought I'd have to use a cell phone in a place like Wonderland, but there you go.

[Another awkward pause.]

Oh, right. I'm Toby, I'm from San Francisco, and I would really like to go home. Any help with that, that would be great.

[A shrug, and Toby shuts the thing off.]

Comments

[blood_lines]

Useful.

[On both counts. And she's adorable and you know it.]

As long as the closets don't have the fashion sense of the former Queen, I can live with that. How big are the rooms?

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Big enough for two.

[Tybalt smiles.]

[blood_lines]

Ah, I see.

Well, no need to decide before I've seen the place, right? Though I don't mind Cu Sidhe, how bad can werewolf be?

[notrequiredtomakesense]

For you? Probably not bad at all. It's just more noticeable for me.

[He takes her hand and starts to head out of the kitchen]

--oh, yes. It's Rand here.

[blood_lines]

Depends on whether they smell like magic.

[She is definitely taking the coffee with her. Especially if there are candles between here and the rooms]

If you say so.

[She still thinks it's odd]

[notrequiredtomakesense]

One, a human, smells...off in a way I can't place, harmless but touched. Otherwise, there's no smell of magic on any of them.

[And out of the relative privacy of the kitchen, he stops talking about that]

Oh, yes. Would you believe that Snow White and Robin Hood are here as well?

[blood_lines]

Curiouser and curiouser. As in the princess and the guy from Sherwood?

[notrequiredtomakesense]

The very same. Apparently Robin Hood has spent some time in a suburb somewhere and was asking about diner food.

[blood_lines]

Diner food.

[She considers it, and then shrugs.]

I guess I've heard of weirder.

[notrequiredtomakesense]

You live with weirder.

[Just saying]

[blood_lines]

If you want to get technical, I am weirder.

But. Beside the point, I think.

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Yes. The point being we are currently in Wonderland. I've learned just how far the rabbit hole goes, and I have to say I am extremely unimpressed.

[blood_lines]

And that the way out isn't as easy as waking up from a midsummer idyll. Werewolves and legends...

And getting used to calling you Rand on a regular basis.

[notrequiredtomakesense]

Just in public. I don't care what you call me in private.