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[lionesssejant]

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[Susan appears on the screen. Her hair is done up rather nicely. The torso of her dress shows, it's a simple beautiful pattern. She'd like to think that she's expecting company.]

I know that it can be exciting to speak to old friends or to people we've been wanting to meet I guess but let's not forget to be polite.

[Her tone is even, she doesn'

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[thread_magic]

[Hmmm. That's an exceptionally lovely girl there, with her hair all done up and dress all beautiful and her bearing that of a person who is quite obviously waiting for a handsome someone-or-another to happen along. A princess, undoubtedly. There's no mistaking it.

Oh, lord.

A princess. That's the last thing he needs to encounter right now. Bad enough he's lost in a place where the air is dead with magic. He doesn't need any princesses crying and pouting and carrying on and trying to send him off on silly quests of their own.

Right. He'll just be...way over here now.]

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[lionesssejant]

...Hello?

[He must not be very familiar with how to work a network device. Susan tries to wait for him to speak or else it won't exactly work. At least not in the video mode.]

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[thread_magic]

[Oops. Spotted. He'll just have to proceed with caution.]

Hello.

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[lionesssejant]

[There's something vaguely Peter about him.]

Welcome to the City. I'm Susan.

...I hope that no one has troubled you.

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[thread_magic]

[Okay. Playing it cool. Got it.]

Hello, Susan. I'm Mendanbar. And I'm getting by all right, thank you.

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[lionesssejant]

Good to meet you.

[Through the miracle of curses and technology.]

Where did you travel from?

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[thread_magic]

Originally? The Enchanted Forest. [Wait wait quick clarification--] The edge of the Enchanted Forest, that is. I was heading for the Mountains of Morning and...got myself lost, it seems.

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[lionesssejant]

[That was unexpected.]

Where is The Enchanted Forest?

[Waiiit maybe that's not something to ask if he got lost. Susan clears her throat.]

Is it near Narnia?

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[thread_magic]

Narnia!

[Cue him looking a lot less wary and a lot more interested.]

Are you by any chance acquainted with someone by the name of Queen Lucy Pevensie?

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[lionesssejant]

[Susan smiles widely.]

Lucy is my sister!

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[thread_magic]

Oh! She mentioned brothers, but not a sister. Then you must also know a High King Peter, who I take it would also be related to you?

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[lionesssejant]

He's my big brother.

[And any friend of Lucy and Peter is a friend of hers.]

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[thread_magic]

Which would make you...

[His first instinct is still to say "princess", but no, he remembers the odd titling convention that Lucy mentioned, and catches himself, thinking it over. High Queen or just Queen? Well, the High King is her older brother, and she's obviously older than Lucy. Maybe the "High" part just comes from being oldest. So: ]

...Queen Susan Pevensie?

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[lionesssejant]

That's right.

[What a relief now that the most difficult detail to explain is done with.]

You already know quite a bit about me, Mendanbar of the edge of The Enchanted Forest.

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[thread_magic]

Queen Lucy was very conversational. And very kind to me, too, since I was fairly lost when I first ran into her.

[Pause.]

And since we're at the point of properly introducing ourselves, I suppose I should mention that I'm King Mendanbar, of the Enchanted Forest.

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[lionesssejant]

That's our Lucy.

[Ever a wonderful judge of character too.]

King?

[Is it something he's uncomfortable about?]

Then we have more in common than I thought.