Entrance Post

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Chris stumbled forward and caught herself on the bar. One of her heels that she had been holding fell on the floor.

Her head whipped around and she took in her new surroundings.

This is not the basement. Where the hell am I?

She turned completely around, looking for something familiar.

Is this a hallucination brought on by alcohol poisioning? Or I fell asleep in the cab and this is a very vivid dream. Maybe I fell down the stairs and hit my head...

She is very confused.

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[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

Elaine sees the dark haired woman stumble into the bar and goes over to see if she needs any assistance. "Good even, lady," she says politely. "Do you need help?"

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Chris blinks at her a few time. It's odd because normally she only dreams about people she knows and she doesn't know this woman.

"I think I need lots of help," she says. Still very confused.

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"I have not seen you before...you are in Milliways, the Bar at the end of the universe...I think you need to sit down." Elaine gestures to a chair.

The woman looks vaguely familiar, rather if she has met this person a very long time ago.

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Chris sits.

Bar at the end of the universe...

"This is a very odd dream."

Chris looked at the woman again. She was dressed like a medieval princess or something. Chris looked down at her own clothes, she was still in the same black dress. That was disappointing on the part of her subconscious.

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Elaine smiles and pulls up a chair next to her. "I am afraid you are not dreaming. My name is Elaine le Blanke. And you will see," she says, gesturing at the large Viewing Window, "that this is really the End of the Universe. Though do not worry, you are quite safe in here."

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Okay, this didn't make any sense and Chris was too tired to try and make sense of this.

"Hello, Elaine. My name's Chris."

She looked at the woman. Her family used to have a porcelaine angel for the top of their Christmas tree. She had long blonde curls, big blue eyes and wore a flowing gown trimmed in gold. This woman kind of reminded her of that.

"That's a nice dress. Or gown."

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

"Thank you. It's what I normally wear. I couldn't wear the black samite, it got itchy after a while, so the Bar gave me this. Would you like something to drink? The first drink is on the house, here? And you can tell me where you've come from." Elaine smiles pleasantly at Chris. She seems a little disoriented.

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Chris shakes her head.

"No more drinks. The only thing I should be drinking right now is coffee."

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

Elaine nods, goes up to the Bar, talks to it, and comes back with some coffee. It's quite excellent coffee, and she's also brought cream and sugar.

"I take it you were brought here rather unexpectedly?"

Yes, the Queen of Understatement is back!

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"Thank you," Chris says when Elaine places the cup of coffee down near her.

"Yes, I was. I guess. I was going down to the basement to fix a fuse and here I am. I hope I didn't fall, break my neck and this is just some weird hallucination my brain created."

Chris picks up the coffe and her hand wobbles spilling a little.

"Sorry. Got any napkins?"

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

Of course, Elaine brought them with her; people are often shaky when they are first brought here. "Here you are," she says, helping her mop up the table. "No, you do not seem dead to me," she says, which is a little joke, really, considering you really can't tell the dead from the living. "Can you see the door you just came in?"

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"Thanks again."

Chris looks around and then points, "The door's over there."

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"Oh, good. That means you can come and go as you please." Elaine's relieved. The living are strange enough when they come here, but the dead have a whole different type of trouble. She should know.

"You do look familiar to me, strangely enough. Where are you from?"

[agirllost]

Kim looks over at the new arrival and...stares. She looks very familiar. Finally, curiousity gets the better of her and she walks over. "Hi,"

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Chris nods slowly, partly from the alcohol and partly from her own confusion.

"Hello."

This was the most vivid dream she's ever had. And usually when she realized it was a dream she woke up.

But she was still in this odd bar.

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"Are you new here?" Kim asks, which is silly because from the look on the woman's face she obviously *is* new.

"I'm sorry - you just look really familiar to me."

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"Here? What is here?"

Was this going to be one of those public humiliation dreams. Chris had never really had one of those dreams where she showed up somewhere naked or soemthing equally embarassing and she didn't want to start now.

[agirllost]

"Milliways. It's the bar at the end of the universe. It's all kind of complicated. You're not from LA, are you?"

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"Uh-huh."

Bar at the end of the universe. The last part was strange but Chris supposed it made sense she was dreaming of a bar, she had been a little drunk. She just hoped she was at home asleep and not in the back of the cab.

"LA? Yes. No. I mean," she sighed, "I come from NY but am living in LA for now."

[agirllost]

Kim picks up her skepticism. "I know how crazy it sounds. But we really are in a bar at the end of the universe. Some people can leave, some can't. Can you see a door?"

So that sort of explains why she might look familiar. "I'm sorry, I'm Kim, I'm from LA too."

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Chris nods.

"Hello Kim, I'm Chris."

She gestures quickly, "The exits are located in the front, the side and the door in the back where I came from."

She doesn't understand why Kim would ask her this but most of her dreams make no sense.

[agirllost]

There's still something *so* familliar about her.

"Good, so you're not Bound. That means that you can leave whenever you want."

She pauses a moment. "This is going to sound kind of strange, but have we ever met before?"

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Chris cocks her head to the side and furrows her brow. Now this was odd, usually in her dreams, even if the person didn't look familiar they were.

"I don't think so."

[agirllost]

And there's this moment where she speaks without meaning to, her mind making the connection before she can stop herself.

"You were at the memorial."

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Chris blinks.

"Huh? What memorial?"