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I've got an unfair advantage so I won't answer and give it away.

Would you like to have a pint sometime soon?

A gentleman giving everyone else a sporting chance. It'll be a treat to see if I can actually still shock the public.

That would be delightful.

[The response from Mandy, all of it, makes Arthur flush with delight, and he can't help but smile widely at the screen that Wildd projects for him.]

Really? Brilliant!
I'm not sure where the best place is, but if you're up for a bit of an adventure I'm sure we can find something.

I think the people here aren't as easily scandalised as they were back home. We're all from so many different places, and a lot of us came from the city I mentioned, and in Eudio nobody cared at all. It just wasn't important.

It's strange, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing, really.

It's been a good while since I've had to go hunting for a drink.

[she's intensely glad she's not exactly sure how to feel about broadcasting her image to strangers now, because she wouldn't want him to see her face at that second part]

Yeah. That's actually the more bizarre thing for me, not all the destruction and all that, but the idea there's people from decades later than me.

[it's tempting to ask some of them if things somehow manage to recover from the depressing reality she's been living, but she's not sure how she'd take either answer]

It probably is a good thing. I'd hate to be stuck with dozens of prudes. I had enough of that for several lifetimes.

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Me too, actually. But it'll be fun. I promise I won't act the crazed fan or anything.

I've met someone from the twenty-first century. She helps me understand some of the technology,
but I'm still having trouble with the idea of a telephone that's also a computer that fits in your pocket and doesn't need to be plugged into a wall...it's a bit overwhelming, isn't it?

[That last line makes him frown slightly, and he adds an afterthought.]

I can't imagine what it's been like, but for what it's worth,
I'm happy you're here. I think you deserve more than being stuck with any prudes. You've done so much for people like us.

Sorry, I said I wouldn't be a crazed fan, didn't I?

Just a bit. But it does make it all seem a bit more like I haven't actually gone off the deep end. Now, if I'd known exactly what I was doing with this stuff on arrival, that would have been worrying.

[she's grateful for something that made it easy to choose laughing over crying because damn if it hasn't been a depressingly long time since she's really heard what she and Brian tried to do acknowledged, much less been included in it]

Oh, believe me, compared to a frankly disturbing number that is a rather boring statement.

But not one that's unappreciated. It's actually been a long time since I've really heard anything along those lines. Things haven't been much like what we wanted to make them, I'm afraid.

[the 'we' is hardly concious. Because as much as she'd love to rip it all out of Brian's hands, she can't. For a glorious moment, they'd been a team and they'd made something fantastic. It's hard to believe that a little over a decade ago she'd thought it would last. When in the hell did she start resigning herself to the fact what they had back in her time was going to be permenant]

But perhaps what we're suposed to be doing here will go a ways towards fixing that. Can't exactly make things that much worse, I suppose it's possible we can still make it a bit beyond tolerable.

Would 3 be the lie?

If 1 is true then it would appear that you have some very interesting stories that you could tell.

Got it in one. My ability to spin a believable lie must be slipping.

Oh, you don' know the half of it. Very few of them are fit for polite company, but thankfully I've very rarely had that.

Perhaps I am just talented in discerning them.

Those make the most interesting kind.

Fair enough.

That they do. In all honesty I don't remember terribly many of them clearly, mostly due to the substances that tended to be passed around during them. But even ten percent would probably be enough to get me disowned by my family, if I hadn't been already.

I see. I can understand that. It might be better that you cannot remember everything.

[ He does value forgetting highly even though he is incapable of it. ]

Your family disowned you?

Oh, certainly some of it. Of course the things I'd rather forget seem quite etched in my memory which seems hardly fair.

I might be exaggerating a little bit. We don't speak, and haven't in some time, which is as much on me as them to a degree. I was something of a black sheep, and after a time I stopped bothering trying to gain their acceptance. It could have been much worse.

That is how most people's memories do work. Sometimes it is better not to remember all the good things.

I see. I suppose that it has virtually the same end result for you.

I suppose that's true. It does help keep me from seeing too much of it through rose tinted glasses. I think if I remembered too much I might actually let myself fall in love with my ex again.

[she says, like a part of her isn't and won't always be. Denial is fabulous]

Indeed it has. Really, if I'd wanted to be a part of their lives still, I could very well have. It just would have meant pretending to be a great deal of things I wasn't. Like, for starters, heterosexual. And that would have been dreadfully boring, as well as probably driving me over the edge sooner rather than later.

It's an exhausting thing, too, to carry the weight of memories.

I see. That would have certainly not made it worth it, then.

My family died centuries ago.

[ More like, he accidentally killed them. ]

Hello Miss Mandy.

I do not know the geography of your world, nor do I understand much of the second beyond climbing out a window.

The third is the only one I understand, and so I will just use that as my guess.

What do they say about the definition of insanity?

Hello there.

I keep forgetting that there are people from other worlds here, jesus. Anyway, it's quite a lot of places to be in that time period for several reasons, not the least of which is cost. Which wasn't a concern at the time for me.

As for the second, it means I was caught being intimate with another woman, which at that time and place was frowned upon. Quite a lot.

But you're right. I've only been married once, thank god.

They say that it's doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Which is why, at least for the forseeable future, I will not be entering into that particular form of union again.

A majority of the people here seem to hail from worlds with many similarities so it is understandable to forget.

Such a thing was frowned upon? In Eorzea people of the same gender are quite frequently in relationships. It is only serious relationships between those of separate races that is considered taboo.

[ so if she were to enter a relationship with her good friend aymeric back home it would be looked upon quite harshly. not that she had ever considered a thing whilst still on hydaelyn. since that incident with the prison world, however... well. it does her no good to dwell on such things. ]

That is a good definition. There is no need for a woman to be married, so I wish you many happy independent years.

It was. Still is in a great many places, depressingly. For a time I thought we were going to be able to change that, but sometimes dreams are just that. That, at least, was one thing my former spouse and I felt very similarly about.

[she'll badmouth Brian a lot, but not when it comes to the matters of wanting to be able to be intimate with any consenting party without being locked up for it]

Thank you darling. It's been ten years since Mr. Slade and I split, and while I am not in theory opposed to the idea of being in a serious relationship with a man again, I certainly have no desire to tie my ability to keep a roof over my head to one again.

Then let us speak of less depressing matters. Would you tell me your favourite parts of your travels?

Perhaps one day you will be the one keeping the roof over a man's head.

Oh, that's quite a large question. Many of them blurred together quite a bit for a variety of reasons. I rather liked visiting Tokyo though. It was gorgeous. And not just the clothes I brought back, although those certainly were. There were some beautiful parks. And the cherry blossoms really are as lovely as all those paintings and such suggest.

That might be the best revenge against my former partner I could think of, really.

I imagine you saw many beautiful clothes. I try to bring outfits back with me whenever I travel though frequently run out of space for them all. It was somewhat disheartening to realize that my wardrobe did not arrive here with me.

We have cherry blossoms in my world as well. Sitting beneath their vast branches while the rising sun filters through the blossoms, it is easy to see why they would inspire artists. I have yet to come across any here, but if you would like I shall inform you if I ever do.

One of the best kinds of revenge is being a success when others would see you fail.

Indeed. And I brought back quite a lot of them. I had some beautiful jade earrings. Unfortunately I had to sell most of them after I left my former partner to afford moving and then keeping a roof over my head.

I don't know how much all of our worlds hold in common, but it is nice to know some lovely things are sort of a constant. I'll admit no longer having the funds to travel was one of the more depressing losses. It would be nice to see them again.

Quite. I know it would make him and his little secretary furious, and I can't deny the thought gives me a bit of a thrill.

I have some jadeite. If you wish I could craft a pair of earrings from it for you. I would just need a desired design to work from.

Oh. That's a very lovely offer. I may just take you up on that. I've gotten used to costume jewelery, but it would be nice to have something a bit nicer on occasion.

You are welcome to message me at any time should you decide to.

What is costume jewelry?

Stuff that's very cheap. It's often made to look like an imitation of the real thing, if you don't look terribly close. I could make some rather depressing joke about the commentary that makes, but I'll save it.

I could see someone skilled with metallurgy being able to craft imitation metals, though I do not know of a way to imitate gemstones.

And now we're talking about concepts I have no understanding of. What's metallurgy?

The art of metal working.

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