http://outofthebiz.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] outofthebiz.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2008-08-21 01:15 pm

This isn't the bathroom...

A few seconds ago, everything was so normal...

Anya pauses at the door, confused. She slowly pokes her head in, scanning the bizarre room in front of her that is most definitely not the bathroom. Suddenly she feels a strong tug and stumbles over the threshold. The door smacks shut behind her, the click of the lock surprisingly deafening in the already noisy... bar?

Well, Anya knows bars. She and bars are good friends. She walks slowly, almost cautiously to the Bar and sits down on one of the stools, tugging her robe in close around her. No one is immediately apparent, but something about this place seems special.

"Uhm... a mimosa please?"

Just to her left in a snazzy crystal glass appears a deliciously well balanced mimosa on a clean napkin. She smiles, claps her hands like a five year old and takes a sip. Her nerves somewhat calmed, she scans the room for something, anything friendly.

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I believe you are onto something," Wencit grins. "Most of the world's problems would be less problematic if only people would say what they mean. It is refreshing to see someone who lives that."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"A keen observation," Wencit decides. "I suppose that I am often guilty of forgetting too. It has been... quite some time since anyone presented a real threat to me."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cute," Wencit repeats. "Now that is certainly a perspective one does not often hear voiced."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Having met a few such demons myself, I must admit that I quite agree with you."

"No personality, really. Just 'I will kill everyone!'"

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well," Wencit smiles, "I must say I am glad to have met you human. I have rather a negative and violent history with demons myself."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would not be opposed to such an outcome."

He laughs, "After all, one can never have too many friends."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"I see that you are an observant woman," Wencit says with a tiny smirk.

"This bar is, as you have surmised, not located in your bathroom. You have found yourself in Milliways, which somehow rests at the end of all time."

"I will admit that I was quite surprised when I arrived here as well. I had expected the end of all time to be a bit more dreary."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is difficult to say, actually," Wencit cautions. "This is the end of time, which should not be confused with the end of the world. It is possible, I suppose, that they are one and the same, but I suspect that they are not."

"Time, after all, continues whether the world does or not."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wencit blinks. Rapidly.

"I... suppose that is one way to look at it. As long as your metaphor accounts for the fact that, for most people, being here means that they have stepped out of time where they are from. When you return home it will likely be precisely the same time that you left."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"As best as I have been able to understand things here, yes. It would, indeed, be possible to spend ten years here, age ten years, and return to when you left ten years older."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-22 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then I advise you simply avoid staying too long at one time. A week or two will probably not be noticeable, after all."

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wencit laughs. "Anti-aging? I imagine that there are any number of people here who could manage it. Most of them, however, would likely want something in return. Is it worth so much to you?"

[identity profile] wildfire-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I avoid manipulating time myself, but if you desire something like that then there is a notice board." Wencit points at the board near the bar proper, "You might put a request there."