http://thinkitwithguns.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] thinkitwithguns.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2008-08-21 08:58 am
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Space is unusual in Milliways.

This almost does without saying.

It also doesn't usually warp and bend and twist like an Escher painting gone mad, with insubstantial blackness dripping up, and something white and not right just barely visible.

The warping space folds itself into something small, black-coated and roughly humanoid.

He's still 'bleeding' something, but it certainly isn't blood. In fact, if you're perceptive enough in the right ways, what he's bleeding is rather a lot like what's going on outside the Window.

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[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not dissing the floating specks of dust." Xaldin assures him, "I was suggesting the next thing to drink to."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Floating specks of dust! Because no matter where I go the air isn't clean!"

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's like..." Xaldin frowns, "I just know it. No particulates. Just the gas molecules. It's...me. The dirt is the stuff in it that isn't me."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." Xaldin says, "That's it. Most of the things in the air don't press me. Some of them...like grit and sand? That's really uncomfortable. Too much earth."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dude, you really are." Xaldin says with a shake of his head, "Although an argument could be made that Void is your opposite. Space is, like, potential. Anything can happen. Void is non-potential and Nothing."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Totally. Space is space. You just don't notice it because all the stuff in it distracts you. Just like air is air. You don't notice it until it's gone."

They're complimentary. Xaldin thinks he'd appreciate that, if he could.

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Got another one in my pocket." Xaldin informs him, "After that we're going to have to stand up."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"That works too." Xaldin retrieves the pocket bottle and passes it over, "I'm gonna be broke soon."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"He probably doesn't spend nearly as much time as we do drunk." Xaldin points out, "We've spent a not-so-small fortune lately."

He ponders for a while, then says, "What about getting into and out of the storage rooms back home? And our rooms. I've got - stuff."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"As long as you don't shrink me again, dude." Xaldin says with a shudder, "Our pockets? No airflow. None. I figure we take it all, dude. If you can take it, we take it."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"My room, your room, the synthesis room, the munny, the potions of various kinds." Xaldin says slowly, "Library? My office. I mean, losing all the information we've gathered would suck."

[identity profile] sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've got his notes and reports. All of them." Xaldin says quietly, "After Castle Oblivion fell I copied everything. I don't even know why, really. It just seemed smart."