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[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

There's a Creature in the bar.

His face is buried in one of several books, the rest being strewn on the table around him.

Anyone who feels up to getting that face un-buried can feel free to interrupt.

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[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

*Tim plops down across from Damon.*

Morning!

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

He looks up and smiles. "My friend! Is it indeed morning? In this place with only the strange explosions of stars, I have no way to tell. But how have things gone for you? I trust you are well?"

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

*He waggles a hand.*


Enh. It's always morning somewhere.

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"Is this true?" He gives it some thought. "I had never given it thought, to be sure- I have seen the passage of days and seasons, yet I have never known it to be day in one place and night in another."

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

If th sun shine son one half of the world, it doesn't on the other.

*Thats the straight forward way of it.*

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"I see... Such a thing would, indeed, make sense." He nods. "Each day, I find more and more the things I do not know. It is a strange feeling, to be sure."

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

There are more things in heaven and earth horatio.....

*Tim grins.*

Shakespeare is an excellent author.

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"Is that right? Perhaps then I shall attempt to read his work once I have finished these." With a gesture, he indicates the plethora of reading material.

"I cannot comprehend all that is told in these tales, yet they become fascinating to me in many ways. I wonder at these worlds so unlike my own."

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

Why wonder? Many of them are here.

*Tim ponders giving the Creature a copy of Frankenstein.*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fisshes/]

While Smeagol would admit that this is a better view of the Creature then normal, he still wants to talk. He climbs up on the seat across from him and stares at the title in the manner of the illiterate.

"Is reading interesting? I never got around to learning how."

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

He looks up in surprise. "My friend! Good day to you!" he exclaims with a grin. "You cannot read? I have found it invaluable for making some sense of a world which I could experience only secondhand. Even now, I can learn so many things that may seem immediately transparent to one who was part of a society from birth."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fisshes/]

"Oh, really? Like what?"

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"I learned the history and religion of my own world from a set of books, and with that discovered the reasons behind my rejection at the hands of humans. Here, though the process be slow and arduous, I can perhaps glean some hint of the ways of other worlds, and find some way to become a less-unsuitable being for some place."

It would help if he understood the concept of things like bulldozers or roads; he hasn't gotten very far in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fisshes/]

"Ah," Smeagol nods knowledgeably. "What's religion?"

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

He blinks.

"The rules which were handed down by God to His children, and the history oh all that He created," he explains as simply as he can.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fisshes/]

"Oh. What's a god?"

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"God is He who created all things, the ruler of Heaven and Earth," he explains carefully. Hey, he didn't know this stuff until he read books.

[ecco-dolphin.livejournal.com]

Delphinus is wandering the bar, as usual. He sees the Creature, who looks like a very tall and rather strange-looking human to Delphinus, and what look to the human-shaped dolphin like very unusual clams. Curious, he heads over and picks up a book, scrutinizing it.

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

The Creature stares, but can't muster the gumption to say anything. After all, it might result in rocks being thrown at him.

[ecco-dolphin.livejournal.com]

Delphinus is oblivious for a little while. He sets the book down before noticing he's being stared at. He smiles. "Hi. Do you know what these things are?" he asks, indicating the book he just set down.

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

"er... good day." He returns the smile, genuinely, if a trifle awkwardly. "They are written records of various histories; information gathered into a form any man can read, if he but know the way. Have you never seen one before?"

[ecco-dolphin.livejournal.com]

Delphinus shakes his head, looking interested. "We dolphins don't have anything like that, except for old storytellers. I thought they were clams."

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

His brow wrinkles. He's encountered neither dolphins nor clams in his life. "Dolphin? What country is that?"

[ecco-dolphin.livejournal.com]

Delphinus chuckles. "It's not a country, it's a creature. This form isn't my normal one."

[hideousprogeny.livejournal.com]

That merits a surprised blink. "Then you are transformed? Gods, small men, and now humans who are not humans... This place is one of neverceasing wonderment!"