rolling out for a pre-canon test drive | twin peaks

[intuit]

Well, mun, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not sure what's going on. While I won't complain about being taken from my schoolwork — important though it is — I would appreciate some assurance in regards to both my immediate and my long-term future. There are some opportunities that come only once in a lifetime, but I possess a certain fondness for my current state and existing paths in yellow woods, so to speak.

I won't lodge any further complaint, as I believe I have made myself clear, so I hope you'll take this to heart.

Yours,
Dale B. Cooper

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[intuit]

[ That prompts a shrug, and a half-bashful sort of smile. ]

Not particularly, [ Cooper admits, mouth briefly drawing itself into a thin line. ] Or at least, there's no use in getting panicked.

Dale. Dale Cooper.

[rhinemaid]

Ilde Decima. [ --Featherstonehaugh, inexplicably pronounced Fanshaw, which she doesn't use. ]

Are you going somewhere?

[intuit]

If I'm correct, my — uh — older self may be, but I'm not headed anywhere in particular.

Yet, at least, which I'll take as a blessing.

[rhinemaid]

It's odd; variations. [ VOICE OF EXPERIENCE ... though mercifully not with herself. ]

I was going to say quiet's probably preferable, but I shouldn't assume.

[ --that he comes from somewhere quiet. ]

[intuit]

There are quiet days and loud days, [ Dale says mildly, and the sort of long-suffering tone that implies that more are loud than not. ]

Although I guess that's true of pretty much everywhere.

[rhinemaid]

Some places have more of one than the other.

[intuit]

And what of where you're from, Ilde?

[rhinemaid]

I could be from a few different places-- [ depending on how she chooses to interpret the question; home, the last place she was in her own world, the city she lives in now ] --but I can't call any of them quiet.

That used to be what I was going to do when I grew up, actually. Have quiet.

[intuit]

Not the worst of ambitions, I think. There's certainly something to be said for quiet.

[rhinemaid]

It's a nice thought. [ unlikely-- but nice. ] By a river, with a big house, and no one around for miles, and somewhere to write, and a music room.

What are you going to be?