Never been here before!

[torchwood_doc]

Who: Owen Harper
Where: Medical Facility
When: The day after this    
What: Off in search of something to drink, he discovers that they now have a proper medical unit.

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[medjaiardeth]

Ardeth looked at Dawn oddly when she mentioned the unwrapping parties. He'd never heard of such a tradition and, while he found many of the British to be fairly macabre, he was pretty certain their interest in ancient tombs had more to do with the treasure than the dead. Desecrating the bodies as entertainment at a party was a little... sick.

He shook himself out of it and looked at Owen. "The boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922," he said. "My people were once tasked with protecting the resting places of the pharoahs, but we were tasked to protect other secrets of the Upper Kingdom after the reign of Seti I."

[torchwood_doc]

Owen shrugged, "Think I'm getting mixed up with Indiana Jones."

"Really?" Interested, he looked at Ardeth, wondering how much information about these other secrets he was likely to divulge.

[littlesummers]

"So I guess you and your people aren't to fond of the Discovery Channel are ya then," Dawn quipped before remembering there was no basic cable in 1933.

[medjaiardeth]

He looked oddly at Dawn again, not having the first idea what she was talking about, then looked at Owen.

"I am Medjai," he said simply.

[torchwood_doc]

"Okay," he said, looking blankly back at him, "Erm, don't think I've ever come across one of those before."

[littlesummers]

"Yeah, I don't know what that is either," Dawn concured with a similar expression on her face.

[medjaiardeth]

"In ancient times we served as sacred bodyguards of the Pharoahs themselves," he explained. "After the assassination of Seti I, we were also given the assignment of protecting the necropolis Hamunaptra from those who would disturb it. And so we have done for three thousand years."

[torchwood_doc]

"Right," Owen murmured, "Necropolis," shaking his head, he finally settled for, "Don't think I've heard of that one either."

[littlesummers]

Dawn was well aware of what necro meant, considering her sister killed dead things deader for a living, and she knew what a metropolis was, so she made the only assumption she could make. "So there's a bustling city of dead people somewhere?" she asked one eyebrow raised.

[medjaiardeth]

Ardeth couldn't quite suppress a smile. "It is not what one would call 'bustling'," he allowed. "Except when an army is trying to rob it. It gets considerably livelier then."

[torchwood_doc]

"So you're saying in this place, the dead walk?" Dead he could deal with, it came with the job, walking dead didn't paint a very pretty picture for him at all!

[littlesummers]

"That's not really that impressive," Dawn shrugged, nonplussed. "The dead walk in this place. Have you met Spike or Pam?"

[medjaiardeth]

Ardeth looked from one to the other oddly. "They didn't walk," he said, confused. "Well, just the once," he added. "Twice," he corrected. "But that was because someone touched something they should not."

[torchwood_doc]

"They weren't called Jack Harkness by any chance were they?" He asked Ardeth, before he had the chance to stop himself.

"Not bothered about walking dead?" he smirked, then glanced sideways at Dawn. "Spike and Pam. Hmmm does it still count a necrophilia if they're both death?"

[littlesummers]

"People touching stuff they shouldn't usually does start that kinda thing," Dawn commiserated with Ardeth. "There was this whole thing with zombies a couple of years ago, because my Mom hung up this creepy mask in our house. Turned out to be a terrible house party."

"I don't really think it would matter for very long since my sister would kill him dead dead, if Spike cheated on her. Any anyways I think Pam is kinda gay," she said to Owen. "Also, word of advice, I wouldn't bring necrophilia up around my sister, at least not if you value all of your appendages."

[medjaiardeth]

"No," Ardeth answered pretty decidedly at Owen's question about the creature's name.

And then they were talking about necrophilia and people with weird names and he sort of lost them for a bit (he had no idea why it was relevant that this Pam person was happy, for one thing). So he took the opportunity to glance around the strange room instead. It was full of equipment that looked vaguely frightening, even to someone who'd set foot inside a an ancient mummification room. Actually, some of the equipment reminded him of that...