Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:25 pmBarbara slowly walked the maze, lost in thought.
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:25 pmRe: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:25 amYou 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?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:20 pm"Hrm? Oh, maybe. It's a lot bigger than it looks from outside."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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.
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:16 pm"So, the rumors were true, then?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:21 pm"That depends on the rumors."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:32 pm"That there's a dragon here."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:42 pm"Well, yeah. I didn't say you were a REAL dragon."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:57 pm"Other half?"
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Posted: 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."
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:25 pm"Oh. I see...that must be difficult..." she said, evasively.
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:40 pm"And you can't control that rage?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:48 pm"Oh? And what's that?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: 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?"
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:45 pm"That's still better than letting everything explode."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:38 pm"Feels like giving in," she admitted.
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:59 pmShe 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."
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:40 pm"I'm fine. It's the rest of the people here who are crazy."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:10 pm"Well, they are. Who else would encourage these sorts of things?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:13 pm"What sort of things?" She seemed a little confused.
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:52 pm"All these people...reveling...in their powers. Don't they see it just isolates people more?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:08 pm"I don't know about isolated. People seem to be coming together pretty well here."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:54 pm"Yeah, apart from the world."
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Posted: 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."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:18 pm"Of course it is. They've already crammed us into one country."
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Posted: 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."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:38 pm"Not in America. That's where they're rounding us up and sending us out."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:41 pm"Yes, that does seem to be an over reaction on your government's part."
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:23 am"And so, we're here. For who knows how long."
Re: Walk the maze, they said. It's be relaxing, they said
Posted: 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."
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Posted: 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."
There are crimes that get less of a sentence than that."
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Posted: 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."