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[ofthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

The front door opens, and Morwen enters the bar, for the first time in a while. She gets a glass of water from Bar, and then something - actually, someone - at a nearby table catches her eye.
It's a gamble, but she's never learned anything by not asking questions, so she goes over and says, "Young man, why are you wearing a skirt?"

And he looks up from the remains of his pasta, and grins, and says, "Why not?"

"...Well, I can't argue with that logic."

So: Two characters for the price of one, at a table. Bother as you will.

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[the_antiangst]

"Honey, I appreciate the effort, really. But you're from the same world and you're in over your head. I don't even have a magical frame of reference, other than the stuff here. It's not gonna work."

Morwen raises an eyebrow. "I'm inclined to agree. I doubt anyone alive understands the Forest the way Mendanbar does, though Telemain will certainly have a good go at it."

[dragonvolunteer.livejournal.com]

Cimorene just shrugs. "He seems to come by it naturally, so his explanations are sometimes difficult to follow. Not as difficult as Telemain's, of course. But Mendanbar can do magic with scarecely a thought. I've never seen anything quite like it."

[ofthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

"There likely isn't anything quite like it."

Angel shrugs. "You'd be the expert."

[dragonvolunteer.livejournal.com]

"She would," agrees Cimorene with a grin. "She's no slouch when it comes to magic herself. She's taught me a thing or two myself."

[ofthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

"I'm hardly an expert."

"Of the three of us here?" Angel points out.

"...Fair enough. But my point stands."
She is, in her own way, as much a stickler for accuracy as Telemain.

[dragonvolunteer.livejournal.com]

"And technically, you're the only one of us who lives there," Cimorene says. "We don't have a lot of ambient magic floating around the Mountains of Morning, after all."

[the_antiangst]

"Besides, who would be an expert?"

"Someone who knows how wizards do what they do. Preferably without being one."

"...I've heard a bit about the sort you've got. Good point."

Both Angel and Morwen are thinking some variation of: Give it time, Cimorene, you'll be there soon enough. But that's for her and Mendanbar to sort out, so neither of them are actually going to say it.

[dragonvolunteer.livejournal.com]

"Telemain seems to be the closest thing I've met to an expert then," says Cimorene. "Maybe he'll have some ideas."

[ofthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

"You can certainly try. But even he doesn't know everything, much as it pains him to admit that."

For some reason, Angel finds that very funny. Possibly because he's met some similar people along the way.

[dragonvolunteer.livejournal.com]

"No one can know everything," says Cimorene philosophically, "but no harm ever came from asking."