atrium 〣 001 〣 video

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[ This is not the first time Ariadne's found herself in a city and, looking back, can't quite remember how she's gotten there. Which means only one assumption: dream. The question then becomes whose dream. When she clicks the video stream on her oh-so-conveniently provided device, her expression is a very speculative shade of bemused.Alright, so

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[7thborn]

I don't think any of us remember signing up for this.

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Probably would have asked for a refund if they did, right?

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[7thborn]

If a refund meant going home? Absolutely.

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A popular opinion around here. Understandably. Have you been here long?

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[7thborn]

A little over two years, actually. But I'm sure you've heard by now that most people aren't quite that lucky.

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I'd heard that eight months was the average. Two years, though.

I bet you've got stories to tell.

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[7thborn]

Depends on the stories people want to hear.

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I'm a curious person, so I don't really discriminate.

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[7thborn]

[Ginny sounds vaguely amused, but she doesn't discriminate either, in helping newcomers.]

Curious about what, exactly?

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Your experiences here, what you remember. [ A pause and maybe if she were the kind of person who lingered more on matters of privacy, she'd apply more decorum when she adds: ] Home.

[ Not questions about the everyday, nittygritty, it seemed. More the broad strokes, the wirework foundations to Ginny herself rather than the minutia of adjusting to life in the city. ]

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[7thborn]

[Teasingly, now.]

My name too while I'm at it, I assume? It's Ginny Weasley. And home is England, if you couldn't tell from my accent.

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Ginny Weasley, Ariadne Lange. [ There's a brief smile that crosses Ariadne's face and it trickles in through her voice. ]

I was told people in the City came from all over time and space. But I keep running into people from Europe. [ A beat. ] I was in France. Before.

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[7thborn]

Really? I know a fair few people from America, myself. And a handful from places I've never even heard of. It's true, really, what they say about citizens being from all over. It just takes time for you to run into them, I suppose.

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And I'm glad to answer any questions you have. But you'll have to stand to be a little more specific.

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What sort of places -- the ones you've never heard of? Are we talking outer space here, or more like Neverland?

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[7thborn]

Places like Panem or Narnia. And then there are versions of countries, too, which is another sort of thing to get used to. Different Englands, things like that. Feels like almost anything's possible when you've been here long enough, you know?

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[ Panem doesn't ring a bell, but Narnia certainly does. Ariadne's opinion on fictional places and their residents surfacing in dreams is kept to herself. ]

Someone had mentioned alternate realities. The difference between one or another being something as small as a presidential election, or as big as the dinosaurs never going extinct. [ A beat. ] It's all a little too sci-fi for me, to be honest.