Room 227, Tuesday Afternoon
May. 20th, 2025 11:33 amHenry still wasn't certain that he wasn't dead.
He'd spent the past week and a half just... going along with whatever was happening here. He didn't know what else to do. He listened to people explain things he barely understood, and he went rummaging around to complete assignments that made no sense, and...
And he was here.
In a bed so soft he wasn't sure what it was made of, staring at the ceiling with the door open, thinking about death. And life. And which one of those he was currently involved in.
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He'd spent the past week and a half just... going along with whatever was happening here. He didn't know what else to do. He listened to people explain things he barely understood, and he went rummaging around to complete assignments that made no sense, and...
And he was here.
In a bed so soft he wasn't sure what it was made of, staring at the ceiling with the door open, thinking about death. And life. And which one of those he was currently involved in.
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:00 pm (UTC)Please don't let him know you know anything about anything, Luma. You'll never be rid of him.
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:19 pm (UTC)"Besides the pipes?" she asked. "Some sort of reservoir, probably, I think that's what they have at home. Surely, they had Wells in the 1400s?"
Please don't think Luma knew anything about anything, Henry, for your own sake. Unless it was maybe hunting rabbits.
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-20 06:46 pm (UTC)Said with the confidence of someone who had to deal with hiring someone to fix some pipes recently. She despised the whole experience, but at least now something helpful was coming from it!
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:54 pm (UTC)Spoken like a man who, in another timeline, would be confused by a fountain being right in the middle of Kuttenberg several times in a row.
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:59 pm (UTC)It sounded pretty boring if you asked her, though.
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Date: 2025-05-20 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-20 07:16 pm (UTC)"And I'm Luma," she offered back, "Zarrin. And possibly. I just started here, I live down the hall, with my sister Eleanor."
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Date: 2025-05-21 07:38 am (UTC)