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bookyeve

Room 512: Thursday evening

Jan 25, 2007 19:27

Evie was sitting in the middle of her bed, staring at the two (very clean) mugs and the nice book of photographs on top of her desk. And trying to figure out what to do with them.

[for the roomie, but open to other friends' of Evie's too]

can i die now?, 512, tyler, irulan, layla

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tyler_gone January 26 2007, 04:02:17 UTC

Tyler didn't like material possessions, but he couldn't manage without his only mugs.

He went upstairs to Nefertiti's room, hoping whoever-she-was in real life had managed to completely block the other Tyler's .... whatever-that-was.

He rapped on the door. "Hello?"

bookyeve January 26 2007, 04:03:39 UTC

Evie opened the door, and looked enquiring. "Yes? Can I help you?"

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 04:08:39 UTC

Half-recognizing "Nefertiti" but trying not to make eye contact, Tyler poked his nose inside her room and looked at the desk. "My mugs and book. You have them."

Brusque worked.

bookyeve January 26 2007, 04:10:31 UTC

"I--" Evie was going to say, I have what? but then she realized who this was. "Oh! Oh. Ohhh. One, one second--" She rushed over to the mugs and the book, turning bright scarlet. "Yes. Sorry. I didn't know, where to leave them, or how to find you... Sorry. So sorry." She handed over the mugs and book, unable to look him in the face. But did see enough to know she never would have recognized him.

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 04:16:35 UTC

Tyler took them, juggling a little awkwardly until he had a comfortable grip. It was strange; there was nothing to Nefertiti to this girl. "It's nothing," he said. "It was a crazy weekend."

bookyeve January 26 2007, 04:21:39 UTC

"It really, truly was." Evie cleared her throat, and risked a look at him. He didn't seem to want to fight with her, or.... "She, the other girl, Nefertiri-- well. Princesses make their own rules. And, I, um. I can't fight like that." She put her hands to her face. "Oh, lord. Um. Anyway. I'm glad you came back to get your things."

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 04:24:41 UTC

"If your body can, you can," Tyler told her. "You just don't have the training." He held out a hand. "I really am called Tyler, by the way."

bookyeve January 26 2007, 04:27:08 UTC

"Evie. Evie Carnahan." Evie shook his hand with a sigh of relief. The continued sanity and calm helped. "No training at all, really. Do you think so? Truly? IIt came so easily to her. I'm terribly jealous, still. I can't think why on Earth I became an Egyptian princess, but it certainly was... different."

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 04:38:22 UTC

"A lot of fighting is mental," Tyler told her. "Get past your block about ... whatever it's about, I don't know you -- and just let yourself do it. There are some really strong fighters here, hang out in the gym and someone would offer to train you."

He bit a cuticle, not wanting to go into who the other Tyler was. "Maybe it was somethign in the water," he offered weakly.

bookyeve January 26 2007, 04:54:15 UTC

"Yes, or, perhaps, the food?" Evie suggested hopefully. The longer she talked to Tyler, the more the events of the weekend *did* seem like a dream someone else had. "I just-- I'm clumsy. I nearly knocked myself unconscious, auditioning for cheerleading." She clasped her hands together. "But perhaps, maybe, if I practice very, very hard-- at least I won't be quite so awkward. My friend Irulan said she'd train with me, to stay in practice, though she's a beginner too." She smiled hesitantly. "I did enjoy the fighting. She did, I mean. You're very good. He was. Oh, bother." She shook her head. "You know what I mean."

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 05:03:26 UTC

Tyler let a half-smile flash. "I had fun too," he said. "All of it. I do some sparring, but not the stuff with staves we were doing."

He studied his shoelaces. "Goes without saying, but I'm not that guy." Usually. Too much. Anymore.

bookyeve January 26 2007, 06:05:24 UTC

"I've seen wall paintings in Egypt of that kind of fighting, but never tried it. I wish I remembered more." Evie studied the far wall, turning bright red again. "And, um. I'm clearly not a princess." She cleared her throat. "For what it might be worth, I'm not-- that is to say... the rest of it, here... it was nice." Evie took a breath. "But it seems like a very vivid hallucination now."

tyler_gone January 26 2007, 15:03:29 UTC

"If I have to be a hallucination, I'd rather be a nice one," Tyler said. "Bwetter than being your bad dream, anyhow."

He shuffled his feet and looked at the mugs. "You washed them and everything," he noted.

bookyeve January 27 2007, 00:31:59 UTC

"Of course. I couldn't leave them like that, with cocoa rings. That would have been wrong." Evie shook her head. "And no, not a bad dream. I hope I wasn't. Nefertiri. She certainly didn't mean to be." She turned a brighter shade of red remembering what Nefertiri had meant by all that.

tyler_gone January 27 2007, 01:38:10 UTC

"About the furthest thing from one," Tyler said, and the back of his neck turned red. "But I know I, he, didn't want to hurt you, so I hope he didn't."

bookyeve January 27 2007, 01:47:18 UTC

"Oh, no, no!" Evie said, shaking her head. "Not even frightening, or, um, unnerving. He was quite... pleasant. At the time, anyway. Afterward, when I was me again, that was rather embarassing." She sighed a little, chewing her lower lip. "And disappointing. In me! Not in him. I should like to be that brave, but, well." She rubbed her face. "I don't have very much experience. At that sort of thing."

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