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[OOM: Pre-Milliways: Salazar Slytherin prepares for a trip to meet his beloved Madaeze. He doesn't quite make it that far.]

Salazar Slytherin enters what he thinks is a tent in Diagon Alley. He, of course, is very wrong.

He groans heavily and turns back around to a blank wall. He isn't going home just yet.

His hands move over the wall as he murmurs some spells.

Blasted thing.

He closes his eyes and rubs his eyelids gently, his hissing low and guttural. Unless you can speak to snakes, chances are you won't understand him.

"BLASTED THING!"

Not too happy, that Salazar Slytherin.

[ooc: note to people: Plzkthnx no more threads? He'll be back tomorrow. note to self: have slow-timed with Arithon.]

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"That is an inanimate object. It is no Lady."

"I think you'll discover here that there's very little in the way of 'innanimates.'"

He thinks for a moment.

"Is there magic, on your world?"

Salazar blinks at the wall. This.. fool.

"Of course there is."

"Many worlds don't."

He shrugs.

"I'm from a planet called Pern, where we have dragons, but no magic, and no science. You are now in Milliways, Bar at the End of the Universe."

A wise fool, to be sure.

"Then you have no power." Salazar turns on Robinton, his smile cold.

"Perhaps not to you."

A slight incline of the head.

"Yet I weild more power in my home than any Holder. And the next person you stumble across here might have the energy to crush you like an insect. There are simple rules- no sex, no violence, no nudity and no business. Out of respect for the other patrons, they're obeyed."

"I respect my equals. None other. As for rules, often, rules are inconviences. As such, if they hinder me, I choose not to follow them."

He waves Robinton off with a wary hand.

"I seriously doubt anyone would dare cross the Son of Slytherin. Much less crush me."

"There are those here who can look into your mind."

The harper steeples his fingers.

"Who can pluck from it your darkest secrets, your deepest fears, your worst nightmares, and take them, and make you think they're true. Then reveal the lie for what it was, and actually manifest them, just to show you that they can."

A slight smile.

"I stay out of trouble."

"I could do that as well. I could make you wish you never existed. I am the last and greatest Slytherin."

And now he's a little intrigued, though he chooses not to show it.

"It has been done before."

A slight shrug.

"In moments. I don't know about your powers, of course, but I do know that there are creatures here that are to be feared by all."

Interested, Salazar sizes Robinton up.

"Such as?"

"Moments or creatures?"

A slight pause.

"You'll have to be more specific, I'm afraid."

Salazar speaks slowly and carefully, albeit seething with annoyance.

"Who in this place would you deem fearful?"

A long moment.

"The Cat. The Lady King. Bar herself. Any of the formidable Security Force. And anyone else I don't recognize."

"What FOOL would let a nundu loose in this place?"

"A nundu?"

An expression of confusion flits across his face.

"I beg your pardon?"

"Oh, yes, you're not from my world." Salazar's eyes arch.

"A nundu is a large black cat with deadly breath. Native to Africa."

"Well, that wouldn't be this fellow."

He smiles slightly.

"H's rather more polite than that, I imagine. And rather musically inclined, so we happened to spend some time conversing."

Salazar ponders this fellow a moment; some of what he's saying is rather strange.

"Perhaps he is a skin-changer?"

"I don't believe he has a skin."

A slight shrug.

"Merely a very intense and immaculately controlled energy."

Ah. This will be investigated.

"Who are these others that you mention that I may know of them should I see them? I believe I would like to compare powers."

"And I believe I'll leave before I'm caught in the crossfire."

Zair vanishes between, without a sound, and Robinton sets his empty wine glass on the bar, where it vanishes.

"Remember, the first drink is free, if you're so inclined. Good night."

Salazar sighs irritably; The man was lying, he's obviously some sort of wizard if he can make his pets appear and disappear at will.

He bows his head and thinks on all of this.

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