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[keyandstar]

[ After having gotten over the shock of... Well, everything, and after having herself a good cry, Lirael examined the journal she'd found next to her neatly folded clothes.

It seemed like it had to be magical, and yet she could feel nothing from it. Was it dangerous? It didn't seem like it. Just strange.

Hence, after having read a few entries and come to the conclusion that this had to be some kind of communication device, she tentatively wrote: ]

Is this Ancelstierre?

Comments

written;

[gleamed]

I'm from the kingdom! [Very descriptive.] I'm not sure what it's name is, actually. But I don't think it was Ancelstierre.

[voice]

[all7seas]

Devilishly handsome, him. Hairy-ish. Brown eyes that melt the soles from the shoes of every maiden from here to there. That sort.

[thebellthatbinds]

[Ah, one of the Clayr, that explains the seven pointed star on her surcoat. Sabriel nods quietly, mind boggling at the mention of a son followed by another rush of heat to her cheeks. She'll have a son, she and Touchstone will have a family...and then the other shoe drops and Sabriel very nearly drops her tea cup.

For a moment she can only stare at the other girl in surprise and disbelief...and yet the signs were all there, the surcoat, the dark hair and pale skin...and if she looks close enough she could even see traces of her father in Lirael's features. But a sister? They looked to be the same age, and yet her father was now Dead.]

I...I never knew...Father never told me.

[written]

[folklorist]

I see. Well I'm sure she'll be glad to have someone from her own world here.

[ A pause. ] Do you need help with-with anything?

[action]

[keyandstar]

It connects me to the Charter.

[keyandstar]

He probably didn't know. I don't think they... spent all that much time together.

[ To put things somewhat tactfully. ]

[voice]

[keyandstar]

Oh, that sort. Don't think I've ever met one of those.

[written]

[keyandstar]

I don't really know yet.

written;

[keyandstar]

The Old Kingdom?

[ Obviously they are both from places with very distinctive names. ]

[keyandstar]

I'm not sure they'd be that much less powerful if I wasn't afraid of them. I didn't even know they exist and they could still bring me here.

written;

[gleamed]

I don't think so. I've never heard it called that, at least.

[thebellthatbinds]

Oh.

[Sabriel's ears turn a little red but she never takes her eyes off the other girl. It was so strange, the more she looked the more she recognized. Tiny things really, little details, and the more she noticies the more she feels this strange warmth deep in her chest. A sister...she still had family. She wasn't alone.]

You said you grew up in the Glacier...is the rest of your family there?

[action]

[idealism]

....

Does it hurt?

[voice]

[all7seas]

That would explain the pristine state of yer shoes, then.

[removeimpurity]

If people knew what they were up to, people could prepare. Lessen the blow.

Coming from a war-torn nation, I can say that the best tactics often leave the enemy completely unaware to an army's existence.

Who's to say the Malnosso don't employ similar lines of thought?

[written]

[folklorist]

[ A frown on his end. ] Well. Have you managed to find the town? I'm sure a good few people might have told you already to follow the river upstream.

You'll come across it through a forest.

[action]

[keyandstar]

No, I don't really think about it most of the time. And feeling the Charter, when you do... it feels good, most of the time.

[voice]

[keyandstar]

My shoes?

[ Wut? ]

[keyandstar]

I guess so. I've never had to think about military strategy.

[keyandstar]

Well... my aunt. Well, we're all sort of related on the glacier really I suppose.

[ Lirael can't seem to look at Sabriel for extended periods of time, but she keeps stealing glances, looking for a family resemblance. She can sort of see it, maybe, though she thinks Sabriel looks way more interesting than she's ever been able to consider herself. ]

My mother died when I was very little. I've never really fit in there.

written;

[keyandstar]

It's not really a very practical name, is it?

[written]

[keyandstar]

Someone is coming to find me.

[voice]

[all7seas]

Completely unmelted.

written;

[gleamed]

Well, not really. I mean, there are a lot of kingdoms, and many of them are probably old.

[removeimpurity]

Most people haven't, to be honest.

...could you tell me about your world, perhaps?