Approved?!

[sarah_williams]

Oh mundane, how could you?

I now understand why people like you are called what they are. I am about to be accepted into the most prestigious acting school in the country after years of hard work and this is what you do to me? I don't want to go. There is nothing magical about that place. Let me stay where I belong.

...

I hate you.

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[djmankiewicz]

Your Moon Dane loves you.

[sarah_williams]

[Eye squint. What kind of creature is that? ]

Her actions speak otherwise, crea-.. sir. Miss?

[djmankiewicz]

Sir. I'm a sir. I'm a Homestarrunner! Which is definitely a boy!

But yeah. Your Moon Dane loves you. She's playing you, so that means she likes you!

[sarah_williams]

You have a point, but she's sending me to a place where the sun never shines. How is that for love?

[ She crinkles her brow. This sir creature has some logic. ]

A pleasure to meet you, Homestarrunner. I'm Sarah.

[djmankiewicz]

No sun must mean always moon! Moon love from your Moon Dane!

Hi Sarah! I see your Moon Dane and you are not on best of terms. That's okay! Your Moon Dane doesn't call you moose all the time at least!

[sarah_williams]

[ That is ridiculously adorable insight. Bizarre, but adorable! ]

Your mundane calls you a moose? Why?

You don't look like a moose.

[djmankiewicz]

I don't know! One day, I was just minding my own business, when I heard this voice from my attic telling me that he was my Moon Dane, and I was his moose.

I look nothing like a moose!

[sarah_williams]

He told you that you are his moos- .. oh! Ha, ha!

[ Now Sarah is getting it! MOON DANE AND MOOSE. Her MOON DANE is very amused. ]

Maybe it's a nickname your mundane has given you? He must find you very endearing.

[djmankiewicz]

...oh! I never thought of it like that! I still think he's silly, he could have called me Homestar, I would have liked that more.

So where is this place where your Moon Dane is taking you?

[sarah_williams]

He does sound it! I did read that moose are powerful animals, though. They can take down an entire car if you let them.

She is taking me to a city with no sunlight. I don't know where it is exactly, but I also heard it is mostly empty except for its inhabitants. No birds, nothing!

[djmankiewicz]

Wow, that sounds kind of like Halloween night! Maybe you'll get candy there!

[sarah_williams]

I wouldn't trust the candy in this place. I wish I had your optimism.

[djmankiewicz]

Awww. You can still have fun there! There's other people too! Maybe they'll have good candy. Cheer up Sarah!

[sarah_williams]

You're very nice to me, Homestarrunner. Thank you. I'll try.

Just think of yourself as a mighty animal if you hear your mundane call you a moose again.

[djmankiewicz]

Okay! Mighty Homestar! I like that!

Good luck Sarah! Save your twizzlers for me!

[brightblueeyeshadow]

Well complaining's not going to help.

[sarah_williams]

Complaining has never helped me. You are already reminding me of someone I used to know!

[ Frustrated Sarah is frustrated. Her shoulders sulk. ]

How do you get yours to listen?

[brightblueeyeshadow]

She does what I tell her, so it's simple.

[Re-l flips her hair over her shoulder. She is very clear about the way things are - in her mind, at least.]

Why don't use just refuse?

[sarah_williams]

That's it? Really?

[ This concept appears to be frazzling her brain. HOW, YOU SCARY WOMAN. ]

Refusing accomplishes nothing, much like complaining does. I can either go to that horrible place and sit there until someone decides to save me or try to find a way out myself.

[ It wouldn't be the first time! ]

[brightblueeyeshadow]

Works for me. Well, a gun helps.

[Re-l has no truck with helplessness, real or not, but Sarah's enthusiasm is just a little bit endearing. A very little bit. Tiny.]

What's so bad about this place anyway? You might find something interesting. The worst possible outcome would be to be trapped somewhere dull and safe.

[sarah_williams]

I don't think I should be operating a gun of any kind if I don't know how to shoot it. Not that I want to learn!

[ Sarah's gaze is a little more fearful. Scary woman + gun = bad. B| ]

There is no sun. It looks eerie, like something isn't right. I don't like being bored, but I am preferring dull and safe over that.

[brightblueeyeshadow]

Learning to handle a gun is simple self defence. And where I come from essential.

[Re-l might have picked up on more of Sarah's mood if the mention of the sun hadn't stopped her.]

No sun? That sounds like my home. The sunlight had was just beginning to come back when I ended up here. The real sun, not the Domes.

[Re-l realises what she just said.]

What I mean is there's nothing to be afraid of. Sun, no sun, it doesn't matter.

[sarah_williams]

That.. sounds so frightening. I mean no offense in that, of course. Where I am from my biggest worry is being accepted into the college I'm applying to, not learning how to use a gun.

[ She winces slightly. ]

Don't you miss the sun at all?

[brightblueeyeshadow]

None taken. Most people where I come from would have agreed with you, once upon a time. But there was always danger. We just couldn't see it.

[Pauses.]

No, that's not right. We didn't want to see it.

[She might be offended at the assumption that she has emotions at all, but Re-l can't help but like Sarah.]

I suppose so. When I left Romdeau, the world did seem very bleak. But the sun in Romdeau was a lie. Like everything else. That was why I had to leave. A sunless truth is better than a bright lie.

[Her smile falters for a moment.]

(Quietly) I wonder if they're alright.

[sarah_williams]

[ Gasp! The smile, big or small, is enough to soothe away the fear in Sarah. Her expression offers a tiny smile of her own to the other woman. ]

I can see where you are coming from, miss. The realization of illusions come with a heavy price. It is nothing but trash and junk in the end, as shiny as they may seem. There is a reason why we have a saying, "Ignorance is bliss."

[ The bright look in Sarah's eyes grow dim and wistful. ]

... is there a way you can go back to check on them? I am guessing you mean your friends or family.

[brightblueeyeshadow]

[Re-l might have given too much away. As always, she pulls back.]

Sounds like you have some experience of trouble yourself. What's your story? And don't call me miss. Re-l is fine.

[Just for a moment, she remembers Vincent as she last saw him, half man, half proxy, smiling in the shadows. She blinks the image away quickly.]

Neither. Just some idiots I had to look after. Though Kristeva was with them, so even without me, they're probably ok.

[sarah_williams]

[ Sarah is not the one to pry too much in personal business. It is a trait she'd hope her stepmother would adopt. ]

I wished my brother away. [ Very to the point, Sarah. She points her gaze elsewhere, the memory somewhat embarrassing. ] He was taken and I realized my mistake. I had to win him back, so I did.

[ Sarah's gaze moves back to Re-l and attempts to offer her a reassuring smile. ]

I'm sure they're okay. You make Kristeva sound very capable!

[brightblueeyeshadow]

You wished him away? Away where? And it worked? [So many different worlds, so many different rules. She doesn't even pick up on Sarah's embarrassment, she's too curious. Well, curious and bad at emotions in general.]

Good for you for getting him back, though. You should always face your fears.

[Re-l tries out for nonchelant.]

Well, she did run the city for a number of years. I'm sure she can handle one cogito-infected child-model Auto-Reiv and a Proxy.

[gleans]

There's a hell of a lot magical about it. Just not the sparkly, nice kinda magic.

[sarah_williams]

The type conjured by nightmares, you mean.