A young woman steps through the door...

[lincilla]

In she strides, swinging through the Mansion's tall front doors in a swirl of vivid colors - a tall, lanky young woman, somewhere in her early twenties, with startlingly green eyes and a veritable mane of marmalade-colored curls tumbling loose to her waist. She wears a loose white shirt and sand-colored bloomers, billowing out until they tighten

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[kotoba_tadashii]

Gen looks up from where he's seated, book in one hand and an apple in the other. "Are you alright, miss?"

[lincilla]

She turns around again, greeting the strange man with a slightly bemused grin.

"Oh, I'm fine. Just a little lost, that's all. Can you tell me where I am? I was sure it was my house at Strafford, but I don't remember Strafford including any place like this."

[kotoba_tadashii]

He sighs. "No, though I quite wish I could. I'm afraid, from what I've managed to find out, that 'a little lost' describes most of us." A touch wryly, "Last I checked, I was still in South America."

[lincilla]

Immediately interested, she asks, "Where in South America? I've only been to El Dorado, which, I have to say, didn't look very much like that out there."

[sirbeaumains]

Gareth may well be standing outside when she turns to look out the door. And he, being Gareth, will wave and call a cheerful, "Hallo!"

[lincilla]

It being Gareth, she really has no choice but to laugh and wave back. "Hello?" She steps outside, blinking a little in the sunlight.

"Excuse me, could you tell me where I am?"

[sirbeaumains]

"No," he says, still very cheerful. "I don't exactly know, my lady. I would, otherwise."

[lincilla]

She sighs a little, but looks far more philosophical and resigned by the idea than most newcomers to the Mansion.

"Well - it's nice to meet you, just the same. My name's Vesper Holly," and she offers him her hand.

[illgotten]

"It's not there," comes a dry voice from the foot of the stairs.

[lincilla]

She turns around, shutting the door again behind her. "No, I can see that. Last I checked, my library didn't have a garden in the middle of it."

[illgotten]

He grins up at her. "New, are you?"

[lincilla]

She laughs. "Does it show? I don't even know what this place is to be new to."

[princessofllyr]

[Typist: Because us Lloyd Alexander characters must stick together.]

*Eilonwy wanders by just in time to hear Vesper's final word* Not here, probably, *she says, her tone matter-of-fact* that is, if you just arrived. If you've been here for a while, I imagine that whoever it is is here, unless you're in the habit of talking to nonexistent people, which sounds rather tiresome if you ask my opinion, which you haven't.

[lincilla]

OOC: :D Especially the feisty redheaded heroines, right?

Vesper lets her get all this out with only a slight lift of the eyebrow. When it sounds like the other girl is done, she replies, "I have just arrived. Though arrived where is really the question."

[princessofllyr]

[Typist: Of course! And, looking back, it's surprising how many of those there actually are.]

People call it the Mansion, which is the most ridiculous name I've ever heard, but no one's volunteering to make a new one, so that's what everyone calls it.

[lincilla]

"I guess every place needs some kind of name. Though that doesn't quite encompass everything I see out there." She nods to the open door. "If that's all part and parcel of this Mansion, it's a pretty big estate."

[heartofbirds]

Linden takes a step back, and bows over his walking cane. "I beg your pardon."

[lincilla]

"Oh! I'm sorry," and she moves back. "I thought you were someone I knew, for a moment. You look a little like--but, well. You clearly aren't."

[heartofbirds]

"I'm very sorry." His warm-milk voice, safe, reassuring. "Is it possible I can help you?"

[lincilla]

"Anything's possible," she says with a slight laugh. "Could you tell me where I am?"