❂ one | video post

[gazingup]

[ Betraying the heavy mood of the City, the center of town is relatively quiet. Only the soft patter of foot steps here and there and the murmuring of hushed voices reach the air, but if anyone was to pay attention, they might notice a orange-yellow orb making a low course across the sky. An orb that's heading for a direct target-- which just

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[treadingdawn]

Are you having trouble?

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[gazingup]

Not at all! I just transported myself, flew through the sky, and landed on a women with enough venom to knock out a horse. I'm really- I'm really not sure which is the worst part.

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[gazingup]

.......

Who is this?

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[treadingdawn]

If you require assistance in orienting yourself or defending yourself from the poisonous one--

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[shiningdown]

Nothing?

[ a dry, not amused at all, ever laugh---short too ]

No, of course---because falling on someone at the speed of candlelight is nothing, just like, oh, knocking said someone into the bloody fountain and, oh, nearly breaking that someone's other leg while you're at it.

Yes, definitely nothing.

[ whatever someone limping heavily sounds like, without a cane mind, annnnd sopping wet thanks a lot, Supreme Idiot of Forever

then a pause, distinct and an exasperated...sound?]

...what are you doing? Stop following me!

Just minding my own business, that's all I was doing...

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[gazingup]

Well, I certainly- I certainly didn't mean it. It's not like I can plot a course with a candlestick

[ he looks rather pathetic, truth be told. Standing there with confusion written on his face, hands hanging limply against his side. He looks like a lost puppy. And a sopping wet one at that. ]

I've ... I mean, I don't know where I am. I suppose you know, right?

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[shiningdown]

...

[ well she's just stopping to stare at you as if you're the stupidest creature she's ever had the displeasure of meeting ]

Actually, you can. That's the point, the reason for the preciousness of the Babylon Candle, you fool. It can take you anywhere so long as you follow the one, simple instruction of thinking of that place or person, and only that place or person.

[ dry pause and she's limping off again ]

Which, clearly you're just brilliant at accomplishing.

[ ...she could probably make herself a new dress out of sarcasm...and a winter coat...and...everything else...several in fact ]

[gazingup]

[ His lip presses into a thin line at that look, perhaps unsure of what he should say to venomous spider woman. ]

And that's exactly what I did! I lit the candle, thought of Moth- thought of Victoria and the star, and suddenly I'm here! Where is here? I don't know- There's no star- There's no star around here, only a woman I've had the most displeasure of meeting.

[ He throws his hands in the hair, frustrated. ]

Obviously, this stupid candle is broken! Nothing I can do to fix that, is there?

[ And yet he's still following, because who else is there to follow out here? The bugs flitting around? Though even that seems more pleasant. ]