Testing muse. Canon is Michael Crichton's The Lost World

[stowed_away]

Do you want congratulations for taking me away from my home and friend? Not that my home life was anything spectacular but I do have school and Arby to look after, you know? 

Although being able to spend more time with Sarah Harding would be okay, I mean.... 

Anyway, you could at least try to find Arby, right?  He'd never do anything without me being there. 

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[famouslytough]

I'm sure Arby will be just fine until you get back.

[Sarah is faintly flattered by the hero-worship, but she'll let it pass without remark. Besides, practicality calls for her to address the issue of Kelly's friend. (And yes, she did note how that word wasn't plural.)]

Or until he shows up, too. Knowing you two, that's not unlikely.

Look at it like an adventure.

[stowed_away]

...I'm not sure I'm ready for more adventures. At least not the type she seems to enjoy.

[famouslytough]

This is a little different from the last one.

Although I'm not sure that's a comforting statement. I keep telling my own mundane that the absence of velociraptors, one, doesn't mean there aren't things that will try to eat me, and two, isn't a bad thing.

She just isn't listening anymore.

[stowed_away]

...There are definitely other things that can eat people, and I get the feeling her ideas will end up causing me to deal with things that are worse than velociraptors.

...They never listen. They're worse than Dr. Levine and the others.

[famouslytough]

You've got me there. About the things that can eat people, I mean. Not about Richard.

Very few people are worse than Richard.

[stowed_away]

Although I will admit, there's not much worse than seeing someone else get eaten...

At least so far. I'm afraid to find out if they can actually come up with something...

[famouslytough]

Being eaten is probably a lot worse.

[Of course, her perspective on that one is a little different. Dodgson isn't getting much sympathy from her and Eddie...

Well.

Eddie.]

[stowed_away]

...That's true.

Survival is definitely preferable.

But then again, you've probably seen more er...kills in person than I have, even if they weren't human.

[famouslytough]

Kills in the wild are a part of life. You get used to it.

Usually.

[There was that one time she had to drag a colleague out when he fainted...]

It's different when it's a person. You don't expect to see someone attacked by a wild animal even though it happens frequently. We live in a world with artificial light and modern conveniences. No one thinks about how animals haven't evolved to tell the difference between food and a well-educated businessman. It's uncomfortable to be reminded how fragile we really are. How we aren't always at the top of the food chain.

It's just...different to see it.

[stowed_away]

I know, but seeing in on a screen is definitely different.

Yeah, I get that. I mean what happened there was a once in a lifetime experience, or at least I hope it was.

[famouslytough]

Let's hope Dr. Malcolm is just the exception to the rule.

[stowed_away]

...Yeah, I..

I never want to see another dinosaur in my life, at least not in person.

[famouslytough]

Mm.

[It's noncommittal, that response. Given the opportunity, as well as the relaxation of restrictions from the Costa Rican government...

She's not quite so sure she wouldn't want to go back. Granted, they aren't really dinosaurs; they're manufactured creatures.

Still. Studying their behavior could give clues to that of dinosaurs when compared to fossil record, and -]

That's fair.

[stowed_away]

Well to be honest, I meant the carnivorous ones. The herbivores were okay.

Although if there was a solid barrier...I could deal with it.

[famouslytough]

I'm pretty sure that's what InGen said.

[stowed_away]

...Well I was thinking more something unbreakable and not like fences and normal doors.

[famouslytough]

The better the trap, the smarter the mouse.

[abbott]

Sorry, who is Arby?

[stowed_away]

He's my friend.

[abbott]

Oh. Did you lose him, or?

[stowed_away]

Well he's back in California, while I'm stuck here in 'headspace', as she calls it.

[abbott]

You get used to it. I... Well. Can't you just ask for him?

[stowed_away]

Not sure it would do that much good really. We're not exactly on the list of popular 'fandoms'.

[abbott]

If it helps, she doesn't know many either and gives a lot of strange looks to people. You have goggles though, so that makes you okay.

[stowed_away]

...I see.

Well goggles are better than fezzes. You should see some of the things mine seems to follow.

Although traveling in space would be fun...

[abbott]

Okay, so if I have wands and you have fezzes, what's a fez and what does it do?

[stowed_away]

...Wait...like...magic wands?

A fex is a hat.

[abbott]

Yes! Magic wands. I can make things stir on their own, it's lovely.

Your hat follows things, then?

[stowed_away]

No, it's not my hat. A..show she watched had to do with a guy who liked them.

...So you can use magic? [ Science nerd is not believing you.]

[abbott]

I have no idea. Mine watches crap, and most of it is just background noise. Vampires don't sparkle, so that's a plus.

Yeah I. Um. [She pulls out her wand and makes a decanter across the room float, an almost smug look on her face proving that yes, she can.]

Just a cool side effect.

[stowed_away]

...That's impossible, I mean...

There are natural laws...

There was a wire or something right?

[abbott]

Well. I- [She shuffles and tucks her wand up her sleeve. Can't be too careful around muggles...] We technically have our own laws and restrictions?

[stowed_away]

No, I don...

Wait, what do you mean your own laws and restrictions?

[abbott]

Well, I mean, you know I'm seventeen so I can do magic alone but I don't think I should do it in front of you, as there may be a Ministry owl coming soon and the last thing we need is someone coming here and snapping my wand, you know?