After Milliways
Mar. 10th, 2012 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
balancingmindsHis door opened onto the street and when Charles tried his building door, he saw the lobby before him. He laughed and started humming as he went up to the flat, the song wasn't one he knew the words to but it had been stuck in someone's head in Milliways.
In his pocket, his notebook was full of hints to help him recall what happened as it all was somehow real.
Perhaps he needed to go talk to some of those physicists or read more science-fiction to know how best to consider what he might encounter the next time he found a door. Or he could simply trust his own instincts and see what happened.
In his pocket, his notebook was full of hints to help him recall what happened as it all was somehow real.
Perhaps he needed to go talk to some of those physicists or read more science-fiction to know how best to consider what he might encounter the next time he found a door. Or he could simply trust his own instincts and see what happened.
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Date: 2012-03-11 04:56 pm (UTC)Now he needs to figure out how best to talk about it as there are multiple beginnings.
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Date: 2012-03-12 03:25 am (UTC)"Define 'amazing'."
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Date: 2012-03-12 03:36 am (UTC)"Another telepath who was even more, like fire contained who seemed to know me, an actual Goth from the year 552, a psychic older woman who's the Barman and I'm going to teach control to, a female constable from London, another woman from another world, an autistic boy and his father, a blue talking pony, a FBI agent, an elf and a man who calls himself a time tourist that had a talking dog and picked up on the fact that I'm a telepath. All of them in a pub that sits at the end of the universe."
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Date: 2012-03-14 03:29 am (UTC)And then she reaches out, placing her hand against his forehead.
"Are you feeling alright?"
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Date: 2012-03-14 03:33 am (UTC)"Yes, I am. Why would I lie about something like this? You know I don't lie that often."
It bothers him, he'll be careful of what he says and doesn't say but lying for the sake of lying he doesn't like.
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Date: 2012-03-14 12:46 pm (UTC)She pauses, slowly pulling her hand down.
" - you do know what you're saying could be cause for me to have you committed."
She's starting to smile, though, a tiny one edging in.
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Date: 2012-03-14 05:40 pm (UTC)"If you or anyone else was going to do that, it would have been years ago. I promise it's real and I'll show you. Just not tonight as I still need to do my editing."
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Date: 2012-03-15 02:14 am (UTC)She tilts her head, peering at him, and then shakes it off with a laugh.
"You would put off showing me a magical bar to work on your thesis."
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Date: 2012-03-15 04:06 am (UTC)It's just simpler that way to have it as a place to explore on its own terms.
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Date: 2012-03-15 04:48 pm (UTC)She frowns slightly at the idea of changing.
"You know, I've been thinking of going brunette."
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Date: 2012-03-15 05:36 pm (UTC)He rubs his temple when she says that and gets up to go investigate the kitchen.
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Date: 2012-03-15 09:09 pm (UTC)"What, you don't agree?"
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Date: 2012-03-15 09:24 pm (UTC)It's not the best of meals but it's food and if they go out, he won't get any work done until even later.