Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy?--

[noneedtohurry]

If he resembled one of his parents more than the other, he would have appeared in a flash-- looking unapproachably cool. If he resembled his other parent more, he would have arrived smiling, attentively friendly. His entrance, however, is like neither, because he resembles both of them equally. It's subtle-- an absentminded entrance, reading an

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[sparklie_fairie]

Where did you get that book?

[noneedtohurry]

I bought it through a private auction of a friend of a friend of a-- you get the idea. 's a first edition copy of Paradise Lost, if you were curious.

[sparklie_fairie]

Oh. *looks at it with ambivalence* I thought it might have been a different book.

[noneedtohurry]

What sort of book? Dad's got an entire collection at home.

[sparklie_fairie]

One my mum might read.

[noneedtohurry]

..If I'm anything like your mum, I pity your family. Who is she?

[sparklie_fairie]

My mum is called Anathema Device and she's wonderful.

[noneedtohurry]

Anathema Device, Anathema-- Where have I heard that name bef-- ...oh. You were talking about the prophecies of Agnes Nutter, weren't you?

[sparklie_fairie]

Yeah, Mum loves that book.

[noneedtohurry]

*nods* I know. My parents told me about the book and your parents a few times.

[sparklie_fairie]

How do they know my parents?

[noneedtohurry]

I'm not sure, really. There was something about an accident, a bicycle, tartan, something else-- I wasn't exactly paying attention to the story.

[sparklie_fairie]

*frowns* Were there goldfish? Is that the same story?

[noneedtohurry]

I don't know, there could have been.