dear_mun | Adstring's visiting event.

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Adstring's visiting event.

So I'll get to see my brother there? I haven't seen him in ages so to speak. And I get to interrogate his girlfriend. Excellent!

I mean, I'm sure he's been missing his family terribly. It'd be nice that I could remind him that he's loved and missed, wouldn't it?

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You are visiting us, Lady? I hope you will find the city to your liking for your stay.

Yes I am! I'm really excited about it. What's the city like?

It is most friendly, though many of the buildings are in a state of disrepair, and supplies can be scarce. I think, though, that such difficult circumstance helps to bring people closer. We grow stronger through our hardships. And sometimes, it truly is pleasant. Mayhaps when you visit, the Animus will make the city more pleasant to see.

Supplies scarce or supplies not easily found?

I guess I'm not explaining myself well. I come from a world with lots of technology with tall buildings and less self sufficient families.

Both, Lady. What is able to be found is not always easily found, and must often be altered or repaired in order to be of use.

[It sounds like Hanna's world, to her.]

You come from my future, then, Lady. The buildings are like to what I have heard tell from the future, but in a ruined state. There is little of what you call technology, unless you are to be given a PCD during your stay. The people who make their home in Adstringendum learn to become self-sufficient, or to rely upon one another for things which they are unable to do themselves.

A PCD?

So people have been learning to farm and hunt, then. There isn't anything like electricity or running water.

My ward once referred to it as a TV phone, if that description makes any more sense? It meant nothing to me, save that when people reference such items, I have some idea now of what they mean.

Some have, yes. Others trade skills or goods for things farmed and hunted by those who can do such things. There is some electricity and running water, in certain parts of the city. The building in which I live has both, but they are not always reliable. The building in which I lived before only had the water, and then only intermittently. It was easier to fetch water from the nearby river, oftentimes.

Yes, I understand that.

It seems like amnenities are barely a luxury, then. It should be fun.

I am glad it makes sense to you. It took me some time to understand what the device could do.

There is a hot spring, Lady, should you wish to visit. And famous buildings from places around the Earth, from what I am given to understand. It is not all derelict or in need of repair. And you have family, you said? You will be well taken care of, if you have family in the city. Should I be fortunate enough to have a visitor from home, I know I will be a proper hostess for them.

I can catch up on all of my world history for college then, you say? -=There's a small smirk on that.=- I can only be so lucky.

I do have family. My brother's there, I'm told. I'm sure he misses me like the dickens.

College? I know not what that is, Lady. But there are buildings from history, and a library full of books, should you wish to study history whilst you are here.

I would imagine he does. I certainly miss my cousin more than anything, and he is the closest family in the world to me. Who is your brother, Lady? Mayhaps I know him.

His name's Hawke! He isn't easy to miss, that's for certain.

-=You know, with the whole mostly naked thing.=-

[And watch your new acquaintance flush a bit, even while she grins.]

Indeed! I know him well, Lady. And thus you are...Wren? He has spoken of you often, and with great fondness.

You know Hawke?

-=Now she gets a little teary eyed.=-

I've been told he's been gone for so long, and I've worried that he's been lonely. Yes-yes, I'm Wren.

He assisted me not long after I first arrived - he escorted me around parts of the city, that I could explore my new home when my cousin was not able to do so. And he has become one of the people dearest to me in that place.

[Teary-eyed ladies make her worry. But she has no idea if Wren is the hugging sort.]

He has been in the city longer than I, and I have just completed my first year there. He has many friends, Lady Wren. Dear friends. But he will be most glad to see you, I know. There is nothing dearer than family.

Gods, he must be beside himself. -=She covers her mouth with a hand and takes a moment.=- He's been there for longer than a year? Away from the mountain all that time...

I'm glad he has friends there, but it isn't the same, you know?

[She knows, in her way.]

He is strong, your brother, and he bears his circumstance with the highest dignity. He speaks with great fondness of his mountain, and his loved ones there, as well as in your world. He misses such deeply, but I have not known him to be one who dwells overly much on sorrows.

-=She gives a small laugh.=-

Shai does enough brooding for the whole mountain! It's good. I mean...I'm glad he's doing well and I'll be able to see him.

[Even a small laugh is good. She doesn't want Wren to brood and worry.]

He is very well. And now that his home has been repaired, there should be a proper place for you to stay. He has had to wait for the weather to grow warmer, that he could have proper mud for the walls. He will be most glad of your company, Lady Wren.

-=She won't! It's just the initial shock.=-

Oh! Forgive me. I didn't ask for your name and you know mine.

[She curtsies.]

I am Juliet, Lady Wren. Juliet Montague - formerly, Juliet Capulet.

Juliet? -=Waits a moment.=-

Hold on. Juliet? As in Romeo and Juliet?

The very same, Lady Wren. Though Lord Shakespeare did not write an entirely accurate reckoning of events, so far as I know them to have happened.

Wow, that's....

That's amazing. -=She's all sparkly as she smiles. A real live legend!=-

What are the differences, if I may ask? This is so exciting! First hand accounts of events are always better!

[She's so earnest, Juliet can't help but smile back.]

There are many. Neither my Lady Mother nor my Nanny are quite so foolish as Lord Shakespeare writes them to be. And the masked ball was far more exciting. My darling Tybalt caught out Romeo and his friends, and acted as he always does, brandishing his knife. Though he did also help me to keep away from Count Paris for most of the evening as well.

And it was Romeo who proposed to me, not I to him. Though it was I who insisted upon a farewell kiss before he left my balcony.

It's interesting to see what people do in the name of poetic license.

-=Just think, her brother's met someone famous and he doesn't even know it!=-

Wasn't it bold back then to ask for a kiss?

Indeed. I should like words with the playwright, should he ever find his way to the city.

[She grins at the question.]

Not quite so bold as a gentleman stealing the heart of a lady from her intended betrothed during a ball which he was not meant to attend!

[Not that Paris ever had her heart, but shhh.]

-=She grins right back.=-

Give him the right setting and he could!

Oh, indeed he could. Given that the intended one has no hold over the lady's heart whatsoever.

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