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Cata recently remembered something that came up on her first night here - one of the things that convinced her this place truly draws from other worlds, as it happens - and has decided to investigate.
So she's at a table, reading a copy of Hamlet. She keeps expecting the names to be different, and some of the phraseology throws her off, but it's

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"Cata." Charlie calls down from the rafters. "Hello."

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There's a second before she glances up - this is a particularly meaty passage in either version of the play, it would seem.
"Hello. How are you?"

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"I'm well. And yourself?" He leaps down to the Bar, and then the floor. It's not graceful, but he doesn't land in a way that could hurt him.

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"Not bad. Sam found his way back to Bistort."
Cata still doesn't think she's in much shape to criticise someone's landing, so she doesn't comment.

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"Oh." Pause. "Who's Sam? And where's Bistort?" He tries to see what Cata is reading.

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It should be easy enough for him to catch the title, once he gets close enough.
"Bistort's where I'm from, and Sam's an old friend of mine. Also in the Guild. It turns out he's the one who killed Mizzamir."
Sam had been gone for months, but ending up on the other end of the Six Lands and taking the scenic route back will do that.

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"So he's either a hero or public enemy number one." Charlie isn't sure what he'd vote on this topic, though he inclines towards hero.

"That play, however, I know. I've seen it a few times." Usually on TV. Branagh and Kline come to mind, as does Olivier (that was in school).

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"I wouldn't call him a Hero, as such, but then, it's a loaded term at the moment. Certainly it was something that needed doing."
She nods, when he mentions the play. "We have something rather like it at home. All the names are different and some of the phrases are as well, but the overall point is the same."

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"That's...unexpected? I have no idea what that means." He thinks. "I think Hamlet was based on an actual event, to some degree. Maybe such things are common to humanity, no matter where it is?"

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Cata shrugs. "Perhaps. Or maybe it's a quite literal example of 'more things in heaven and on Earth, Sebastian.'"
She quotes it as she knows it. She's not quite that far in the play, but she can't think why 'Horatio' seemed like a good name for the prince's friend.
(Or why 'Hamlet' sounded like a good name for anyone - but, well, Earth is odd.)

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"Horatio," he automatically corrects. Before thinking about that correction. "The scripts are that similar. Hmm."

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"Someone quoted that version of the line at me my first night here. One of those things that helps bring home the point."
Most people who can keep an ear out do know the line, after all.

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"Who was the author of your world's play? Was he - or she - prolific?" No reason to assume gender role on another world.