Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said

by **Barbara Kirby** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:25 pm

Barbara slowly walked the maze, lost in thought.

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by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:25 am

You can't have an English hedge maze without Welsh dragons, or at least that's what Gemma had decided when she'd plopped her dragon self down in a corner of the hedge maze and started trying to figure out how to work an e-reader with claws. She was just giving a frustrated grunt when she caught sight of Barbara walking through the maze. "Lost?"

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:20 pm

"Hrm? Oh, maybe. It's a lot bigger than it looks from outside."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:27 pm

"Appearances can be deceiving that way, especially when you can't get a good look at it from above. I'm Gemma." She gave a little wave with one foreleg.

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:16 pm

"So, the rumors were true, then?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:21 pm

"That depends on the rumors."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:32 pm

"That there's a dragon here."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:35 pm

"I'm just a mutant like everyone else, but I can turn into a dragon. So there is a dragon here, sort of?"

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:42 pm

"Well, yeah. I didn't say you were a REAL dragon."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:47 pm

"My other half is bristling a little, she likes to think she's a real dragon. She's not, but she likes to think she is."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:57 pm

"Other half?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:00 pm

"Long story. Sometimes when I shift, it's like I have a second personality. She lingers around in the back of my head most of the time, offering color commentary."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:25 pm

"Oh. I see...that must be difficult..." she said, evasively.

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:34 pm

"It has its moments, good and bad," she said with a smile. "Once we got to know each other better, it become a lot nicer. She was kind of raging at first."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:40 pm

"And you can't control that rage?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:46 pm

"After first I couldn't. Then, once I got to understand her better, I understood more what made her angry."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:48 pm

"Oh? And what's that?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:50 pm

"Well, for starters, she was a part of me, but she didn't feel like she had a voice or a say in things. And I was fighting her all the time."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:09 am

"But if she's dangerous, it's best to NOT have her have a say in things, right?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:36 am

"That's what I thought at first. But treating her like that just made her worse when she did take control. Kind of like bottling up an explosion."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:45 pm

"That's still better than letting everything explode."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:55 pm

"You'd think that, but it would build and build and explode anyway, only it would be a lot worse than the original explosion would have been. And the metaphor breaks down there somewhere, but you get the idea. I had to learn to deal with her on 'our' terms, not my terms or her terms."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:38 pm

"Feels like giving in," she admitted.

by **Gemma Sloan** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:59 pm

She folded her forelegs, one on top of the other. "Speaking from experience? If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. I know talking about it was the last thing I wanted to do."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:40 pm

"I'm fine. It's the rest of the people here who are crazy."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:45 pm

"My misunderstanding. I'm sorry," she said, though the part about everyone else being crazy didn't appear to sit well. "I don't think everyone here is crazy."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:10 pm

"Well, they are. Who else would encourage these sorts of things?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:13 pm

"What sort of things?" She seemed a little confused.

by **Barbara Kirby** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:52 pm

"All these people...reveling...in their powers. Don't they see it just isolates people more?"

by **Gemma Sloan** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:08 pm

"I don't know about isolated. People seem to be coming together pretty well here."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:54 pm

"Yeah, apart from the world."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:04 pm

"There are quite a few people who work off-campus and go off-campus regularly. I don't think things are as insular as you're implying."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:18 pm

"Of course it is. They've already crammed us into one country."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:22 pm

"I'll admit there are a lot of yanks here, but X-Corp has offices all over the place."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:38 pm

"Not in America. That's where they're rounding us up and sending us out."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:41 pm

"Yes, that does seem to be an over reaction on your government's part."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:23 am

"And so, we're here. For who knows how long."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:23 am

"At least until you finish secondary school, maybe until you finish university, but then you can go wherever you want."

by **Barbara Kirby** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:26 pm

"Oh, yes, only six or seven years. Fantastic.

There are crimes that get less of a sentence than that."

by **Gemma Sloan** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:34 pm

"I'm not saying it's right. It's just the reality." Gemma frowned, "If you don't want to be here, I'm sure you could go back to the States and register."

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