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She doesn't know where she is but she's fairly sure she doesn't approve of it.

Aug 28, 2007 22:20

Enter: a young lady with a wonderful profile. She's willowy, blonde, imperious, and very well and expensively dressed in a 1930s-intellectual kind of way. She sweeps in confidently, tugging at one glove as she walks, then comes to an abrupt halt as she takes in her surroundings. This isn't Bumpleigh Hall. How could it not be Bumpleigh Hall? ( Read more... )

lady florence, bertie wooster, karla, linden, jaenelle, nancy drew, armand, courfeyrac, introduction, draco, elizabeth bennet, lynette

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i_flynomore August 29 2007, 05:24:32 UTC

Lynette almost shies away, but manages to catch herself and say, apologetically, "Yes, sera?"

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:31:07 UTC

The jumpiness and apologetic tone make Florence assume she's some sort of parlourmaid, but though she's usually on the sharpish side with servants she's fond herself in rather an awkward situation here. Her tone's a little brisk but not actually rude as she says, "Good afternoon. I...It's rather odd, but I seem to have come here by mistake. Can you tell me where I am, please?"

i_flynomore August 29 2007, 05:33:02 UTC

"I don't know, sera. It's Earth. That's all we figured out."

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:34:32 UTC

"Well, yes, of course it's Earth. What do you mean, 'figured out'?"

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glacianbitch August 29 2007, 05:31:48 UTC

Karla gives her a very, very wicked grin. "You don't need to beg, I'll just go ahead and pardon you anyway."

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:33:33 UTC

Karla receives in return what can only be described as a Look. "How very amusing."

glacianbitch August 29 2007, 05:34:41 UTC

"Amusing? Perhaps." she sweeps an elegant and flourishing bow. "Welcome, fair lady, to the place that is known only as the Mansion."

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:39:01 UTC

Why on earth would a young lady bow? Is she some sort of actress? Florence gives a neat, well-bred sort of curtsy and looks skeptical. "'The Mansion'?"

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moredangerous August 29 2007, 05:33:07 UTC

And here's a Warlord Prince, whose first reaction to being accosted is to snarl at the lady in question, before stepping back and staring at her very odd appearance and becoming merely puzzled. "What?" he asks, perhaps just a bit snappishly.

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:36:44 UTC

Frostily, "I was about to inquire where I am, but if common courtesy is too much to expect in return I shan't."

moredangerous August 29 2007, 05:38:16 UTC

A little baring of the teeth and a very stiff bow. "You may inquire, Lady, but I'm afraid I haven't an answer for you."

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 05:44:12 UTC

Both bow and form of address she takes as her due; what bothers her is this continued vagueness on the part of everyone she meets about their location. "But how have we all come here?"

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all_that_grace August 29 2007, 06:00:14 UTC

"Yes, madame?" He's young, he's handsome, he's dressed like a slightly rakish Frenchman of a century past, which he is. He offers a friendly grin. "New?"

Hello! Welcome. :D

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 06:05:50 UTC

"Quite." She smiles slightly in return, as (a) she's not unaffected by the young and handsome bit, and (b) he looks a bit more like someone she'd expect to see, at a fancy dress party, anyway. "I'm a little confused."

lizzy_fine_eyes August 29 2007, 07:18:42 UTC

Second entrance, a young lady with fine eyes (to go with the other's wonderful profile, we suppose). Elizabeth, passing through on her apparently endless hunt for a ballroom, looks up at the stranger with a polite "Yes? May I help you?"

Typist: Ah! I love you for having a Wodehousian. ^___^

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 07:28:28 UTC

At last, someone sane. Florence thaws visibly. "It's quite absurd, I'm afraid, but I seem to have no idea where I am or how I arrived." She can't help feeling this is something that Ought Not To Happen to a young lady, and she goes on with a touch of exasperation, "Everyone I've asked so far is full of nonsense about magic and paradoxes, and I can't even find the door outside."

And I love you for loving me for having a Wodehousian. ^_^ And also for having an Austenite.

lizzy_fine_eyes August 29 2007, 07:33:19 UTC

Elizabeth looks quite sympathetic. "Oh, dear. I'm afraid, you see, and this may be quite difficult to believe, that the nonsense is not entirely nonsense. There really is no door outside. Oh, there is an out of doors - the park is beautiful no matter what the season, and there are gardens and a lake and a wood that stretches on for miles...But," and she speaks here rather gently, "we have yet to discover a way to get back home. To wherever your home may be."

onceandfutureex August 29 2007, 07:40:42 UTC

"But surely...!" But surely what, she's not sure. Having it put in terms she can understand, it's still a little boggling, and Lady Florence Craye isn't accustomed to boggle. "Doesn't anyone know why we're here?"

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