Endora buys a bicycle

[endorathewitch]

Who: Endora and Open
What: Endora buys a bicycle but refuses to ride it
When: Today, mid-afternoon
Where: The park
Rating: Low, I expect
Status: Open and incomplete

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[secretsorcerer]

"Wow," Merlin breathed as he passed by the lady by the strange contraption in the park. He'd made it a point to try and take a walk every day since the weather had started to turn warm, and Arthur was busy with his family back at the castle today.

But Merlin was able to find enough to entertain him on his own. Like whatever this was. "What is that thing?" he asked perplexedly, approaching the woman. Who didn't seem very pleased with the "thing," whatever she was trying to do with it.

[endorathewitch]

Endora smiled slightly at the young man's reaction to the bicycle, wondering what era or what universe he was from. She followed his gaze to the bicycle and then back to him.

"That thing," Endora said, "is a bicycle. Supposedly you sit on the seat--that wedge there--and pedal to turn the wheels properly. Although I find myself quite incapable of operating it. You're welcome to try it, if you like, but I must warn you, it's very different from a broom."

[secretsorcerer]

Merlin furrowed his brow. "You're supposed to ride on it, then? Like... like a horse?"

Huh. How very odd. Nearly as odd was what the woman had said next. "And do you mean you usually ride a broom? Em, I'm Merlin, by the way!" he stuck out his hand, grinning sheepishly at having forgotten his manners.

[endorathewitch]

"That's the idea," Endora said. "Something mechanical to replace the horse. It was very popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." She should know; she'd been there.

"Only when I want to look impressive," Endora said, answering the young man's question. "I can fly without one if the situation demands it." She smiled at the young man, taking his hand and giving him a firm handshake. "Charmed. I'm Endora." Her eyes sharpened at the name. He was not THE Merlin, surely. She wasn't sure if she should ask--after all, he was a young man, and revealing his destiny, or possible destiny, was not the done thing.