At the Fair (Dual-pup Post - OTA)

[seeherwheniwake]

Fantine hadn't meant to come to the fair. She had nobody to go with, and going to such things alone seemed...sad in a way. But the music had drawn her in, and the happy sounds of children laughing. She did not begrudge the young lovers as she saw them walking arm in arm along the fairway. She had known that feeling, of being on the top of the world

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Tag Eponine

[faramir_hurin]

Olore and I were going to go for a quiet walk in the park, but the village decided that wasn't going to happen. We skirted around the commotion, but Olore was unhappy with the noise and I had to take him home. It was all so strange that I've decided to come back.

It is very loud, colourful, and the food smells very strange. There are machines that are obvious amusements, but I do not see the pleasure in going around very quickly. Now, the circle in the air is slower and I wonder what the village looks like from up there. I am so foolish--I've seen it from the top of the hotel. But this is in the park.

And there, on that one, that is Eponine. I watch as she gets off walks from it, seeming both dizzy and happy.

"By the Valar, what is all that?" I ask as I approach. "Are you well?"

She does seem happy.

I have my own impressions of our fair, guided quite a lot by spending so much time working there. I understand a lot of the people like the food and stuff, but I think Faramir might agree with me about a lot of it. He's already got

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[faramir_hurin]

"I've heard it said about medicine, healing. It is a passion, much more than many jobs can be. For some it is work only but for others it is their life. It seems that you might be truly meant for this." If she were of Numenor, I might even say that she had gifts that led her to it as soon as she was able.

"Doctor Koscuisko is not a man to waste words during his work. I understand that it is different for him socially, but that is one of the things worth mocking of the gatherings of the wealthy and titled." I make a face. "People seem to want to be there and be seen, and I want to be anywhere else. I do not care for the dishonesty casually spread about under the guise of manners."

And people look on, many of them, wishing they could participate.

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[ep_gamine]

"I don't know nothing of the behaviors of the rich and famous," she shrugged. "But Dr. K seems nice enough to me, and he's never said anything about me calling him that. So as long as he doesn't, I'm just gonna assume he's okay with it. 'Cause I don't think I could say his name. It's kinda weird."

She smiled at the first part.

"Yeah, I think it is like that. I like learnin' this stuff a lot. I think the more and more I read that maybe I can do it after all."

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[faramir_hurin]

"Much of the behaviour of the wealthy at formal social gatherings like that is worthy only of mocking." It is tedious.

"I suppose he would prefer it to having his name mispronounced. I've had any number of plays on my name, some deliberate." I frown slightly. "There's a very famous woman somewhere named Farrah that lent me her name for a time, not that she knew it."

I need to find out who that is.

"I enjoy learning in general. But for you it was medicine right away." She gets a bit of a glow when she talks about it. "I think you can, as badly as you want it. Perhaps the only thing that might stop you is if you find you have no gift for being with patients."

I cannot imagine why anyone would have Dr. House treat them, for example. Unless they had no other choice.

"Even then, you could find something. The medicine here is complicated enough that there are many things to do that don't require much contact. But I don't think you'll have a problem."

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[ep_gamine]

Eponine shrugged.

"It was the doctors I always looked up to, you know? The way they could always make everyone better, or at least pretend to."

A lot of times they couldn't, and people died. But at least their relatives always felt like they did something to try to help if they called the doctor.

"And...well...I want to help everyone. Especially girls, 'cause it seems that boys have plenty of doctors. And I don't know if I'd want to talk to Dr. K about girl things. I mean, I'm sure he'd know about them, but still."

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[faramir_hurin]

I understand about the 'pretend to' and dislike that immensely, though that is not what she means. She means they try to help and console even though sometimes there is naught that can be done.

"Did you mean like midwifery? I know there are special doctors for that in the modern world, but I don't know what they are called." They have a lot of special doctors. "There are women doctors here. That might be easier."

I've been treated by doctors who were women, but we do have female healers at home and they really didn't in Eponine's world.