Leonardo da Vinci // Leonardo // Bar!

[innermuses]

So the door opens, as doors are wont to do, and through that door comes hurtling a device the likes of which you've never seen!

...unless you've seen bicycles before.

Riding the bicycle (it appears to have a wooden frame. It's painted garishly yellow) is a young man of about 16 years of age, in bright earth tones of cotton and linen that might be

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[scots_wolf]

Somebody sticks his head out from a sofa, looking at the source of the crashing noise.

[innermuses]

The source of the crashing noise is, as previously mentioned, a young man on a bicycle, who's just crashed into a table and fallen off the vehicle.

He's OK, though! He's leaped enthusiatically to his feet and is turning around and around in tight circles, staring at the place.

He hasn't noticed anyone noticing him.

[scots_wolf]

"What are you doing?" the blond man on the sofa enquires.

[innermuses]

Alarmed that someone was watching, Leonardo jumps and then turns around to face him.

"Scusi," he says, bowing his head in the deference of an apprentice greeting an older man. "I wasn't looking where I was going and... are you the owner?"

He may be about to gush.

[scots_wolf]

"No, I'm just another patron," Urquhart says. "There is no owner here. But I was playing chess when I heard that big noise."

Now, in addition to the man, a big spotted dog sticks his head over the back of the sofa.

[innermuses]

"Oh, my bicycle."

Yeah, his bicycle is nice and everything, but LOOK AT THIS PLACE.

"I don't think I've ever seen this place before - I've never seen any place like this before."

[scots_wolf]

"Oh, you're new!" Urquhart says. "You've never been in a tavern or inn before?"

[innermuses]

"Of course I've been in a tavern!" Leonardo says, which is not really a lie, because he has been in them occasionally looking for Mac.

"I've never been in a tavern with a view like that."

He's already walking towards the window, awestruck. "Magnifico."

[scots_wolf]

"Oh, that's just the end of the world," Urquhart says, lying back down. He does crane his neck, though, to watch the boy gape at it.

[innermuses]

"The end of the world?" He repeats, at first dreamily, then he brings himself up sharply, blinks and turns around. "Eh?"

[scots_wolf]

"The apocalypse?" Urquhart says. "The final death of the universe due to the forces of entropy? Whatever you believe? The End, as in 'is nigh'?"

[innermuses]

"Now?"

No! That can't be! Leo's eyes jerk wide in fear.

"But I've got so much to do!"

Because that's what bothers him about the end of the world. He'll never complete his flying machine.

[scots_wolf]

Urquhart laughs. "Well, here and now," he says. "Back where you come from, you still have time. I guess."

[innermuses]

"Back where I..."

He glances to the door. "What do you mean?"

[scots_wolf]

"You're no longer in your world," Urquhart says.

[innermuses]

Well. That actually makes a lot of sense. It certainly explains the jukebox.

"Where am I? How did I get here?"