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guppy_sandhu ([personal profile] guppy_sandhu) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2013-10-17 10:20 pm

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[oom: Guppy fails in his role as the fountain of all knowledge.]

Guppy makes it half way across the bar when he realises that a lot of the patrons are, well, kind of shorter and younger...

Hmmm.

He goes into the infirmary, and finds it as he left it (deducing from this that he has not gone back in time), except that one of his younger two (male) waitrats is attempting with limited success to feed a pair of tiny, eyes barely open half bald waitrats, still dressed in their now very oversized scrubs shirt.

"Aesclepius? Work Experience?" Guppy peers at the pair. The third waitrat, Backup, shrugs and hands him the syringe of milk.

"Wait, what happened?" he asks, but his remaining waitrat, tired by days of feeding every few hours, scurries off for a kip.

Five minutes later, he's got the two shrunk infirmary waitrats in a cardboard box on a warm towel, and is back in the bar looking for some answers.
ostro_goth: (Serious)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-19 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is very clear," Teja says. "The fangs, the dark face, and the axe distinguish us; and we are in circles as we are not, originally, part of the tale."

Pause.

"Valjean is worried of Javert, and Javert is scared of Valjean, to put it simply, because as they have known each other long and have been associates and enemies over the years. Valjean freed him at the barricade, when Gavroche recognised him as a police spy and the revolutionaries meant to kill him; and it seems that might have been what drove him to the river: - the overwhelming debt of his life, towards one that was an enemy, and not a good man by his books, which were ever strict and of the law. Now, Javert maintains Valjean is a good man, while yet running from him to another world in fright, and all his strict books of law inside his mind have come undone."

Pause.

"Also, I did not apprehend Vlad; I merely set him terms to make amends."
ostro_goth: (Brooding king)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-19 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, or it would be scribbled over completely," Teja says. "But yes, that does help."

Pause.

"I asked Valjean to come and speak with you, as you are Javert's doctor and should know whatever he would freely tell."
ostro_goth: (Attentive)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-19 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"But you have sworn an oath, and have a code of conduct as a healer," Teja says, "which makes you trustworthy. I am not so much of Security in this, merely myself. I feel great sympathy with all of them, even Vlad."
ostro_goth: (Almost amused)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-19 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is not a non-stop occupation," Teja says. "I do what I always do, and then I spin their story for these 1832 people -- at least that is what it feels like. They give my the unspun wool of their thoughts and feelings, and I try and make a tale, so that we may understand them, and help them where needed."
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[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you, Guppy," Teja says. "I had hoped you would say some such thing, some modern piece of experience, that would be helpful to an Ostrogoth that feels too much, maybe."
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[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Butterflies?" Teja says. "That happens when?"
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[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Teja is silent.

"I think in Milliways, people do this all the time," he says.
ostro_goth: (Serious)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would not have the heart to tell Gavroche not to save his sister," Teja says. "Even though she is enamoured with the same Marius Valjean's adopted daughter loves, and if she lives, that might complicate things. But she cannot be let die merely to provide another's happy ending!"
ostro_goth: (Dark)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is the most honest course," Teja nods, face grim.
ostro_goth: (Quiet)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"She might simply die later on the barricade, when Gavroche himself died," Teja says.
ostro_goth: (Intense)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"But who would not risk the universe for someone they love?" Teja asks. "Would you not risk it for your wife and children? Would I not risk it for Adalgoth, Wachis, and their families?"
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[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-20 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"But even knowing the future, how could one resist a chance to set things right in that way?" Teja says. "This is a place of second chances: - why should we ask them not to take those?"
ostro_goth: (Contemplating darkness)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2013-10-21 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"It if were easy, we would not still be mangling our minds over the question," Teja points out.
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