[Thread] I'm Not in Oz Anymore

[nowimwicked]

Characters: Elphaba (OU), OPEN
Where: Plaza
When: After this journal entry.
Summary: The old meet and greet. New thread for new chars, or ninja in on her meeting someone else (with permission, please).
Warnings: Wicked Witchy-ness.

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[nowimwicked]

Her disgust at his words, faked or otherwise, wrinkled the witch's emerald nose with clear distaste. Even for a joke, his explanation was far too much like those she had heard at Shiz, honest statements those. Even Glinda had said much the same at one point - Glinda...how long since she thought back on those days? Did their dark beauty still haunt her old friend as they did her? The contrast? The bitter result of their lives? Though perhaps the 'Good Witch's' life was disappointing in a different way. Neither of them had turned out to be the successes they had dreamed of being.

"'Don't really', how terribly kind of you." Elphaba said, sarcasm caked on as thickly as an elderly woman's rouge. "No wonder the women flock to your side...you're full of witty flattery." Her teeth clicked shut as she finished flaying him, brown eyes showing slight regret for the runaway nature of her tongue. In slight apology she tried to lighten the mood, sought to repair some damage from the banter that had moved too far. Not for Tony's sake - but for the beautiful man's memory that he reminded her of.

"Surely you can come up with something better than 'vegetables'." She tucked the broom at her side, making it not so much of a possible weapon as more of a walking stick that she leaned upon. "It must not include toadstools or elf circles, either, I have heard enough of those wild speculations for several lifetimes."

[yeah_i_can_fly]

Tony's eyes narrowed thinly, briefly, at Elphaba's dripping sarcasm. But really the statements weren't unheard of by the businessman and, indeed, he usually swam in them to his own delight because he could literally fill an ocean full of such statements if they were all written down on paper and then tossed into place. Half of his life was devoted to the various ways he could accumulate such remarks. The other half spent in winning the hearts of women all around.

And then there was that one portion that he spent his true heart's content in genius building, making, and creating whatever came to his brilliant and chaotic yet purposeful mind. That was another story.

No, the expression on his face at those words readily turned to amusement more than anything else because the facade that was his face came so naturally it seemed nothing could penetrate it. "Indeed--and wouldn't you know it? They really do."

He shrugged idly. "I'm sure I could come up with a whole slew of scientific nonsensical babble that would leave you in shock--but why bother? I'm not really into biology." Pause. "We'll chalk it up to simple genetics and leave it at that, shall we?"

[nowimwicked]

"Life science was my main area of study at Shiz University." Elphaba said reflectively, digging up the past despite the flare of warning that beat against her heart. It was lucky that this man, though handsome, lacked the shining blue diamonds - he didn't fully possess the heady-dreadful poison that would remind her of that one of warmest memory.

"Genetics and breeding were of special interest to me, I assume you can discern why." Her smile was humorless. "But for the most part I was helping my professor, Dillamond was his name, he was a Goat. We were trying to find the difference between Animals and animals, and their relation to mankind." The brown eyes glittered. "That was, until he was murdered." Her jaws clamped shut then, for along with getting Fiyero killed, she had also never managed to avenge her friend and colleague.

[yeah_i_can_fly]

Tony paused for a second. Actually, she would understand what he was talking about--that is, if 'life science' was the same sort of biology he was talking about. He mentally shrugged. That didn't have to be a big surprise. Plenty of people were smart--plenty of people studied hard to be so--but just because they could understand what he said didn't mean they were as smart as him though. Like he said: biology really wasn't his thing.

He definitely could see. That was quite obvious. And he thought it wasn't a bad reason to go into such things. At least she had a reason. Like him. He was just good at what he did. That was all.

He didn't understand all the background allusions going on here, although he could definitely tell there was something being said in between the lines, and the whole "murder" statement went a long way... but again he ignored that. He would, however, now ask about the the difference between the double words. "...What's with the 'Fish' and fish, 'Animal' and animal thing going on here?"