Jill, from Katherine Kerr's Deverry books

[turtledove_jill]

A young woman with short blonde hair walks in, stops, and looks around in surprise. She is wearing worn baggy trousers, a slightly stained linen shirt, boots, and a swordbelt from which hang a sword and a silver dagger.

"By the Lord of Hell's black hairy balls! Since when did Brin Toraedic have a room that looked like this(OOC: This Jill is from

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[ian_ma1co1m]

Pardon me, miss. You wouldn't happen to have a passionate interest in hyenas, would you?

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[dinosaurman]

If you do, I swear to God I will make your life a living hell.

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[ian_ma1co1m]

Oh, like it isn't in so very many ways already. You can do whatever you damn well please to me, after Ellie gets the answers she deserves.

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[dinosaurman]

Bitch and fucking moan.

I'm going to hold you to that.

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[ian_ma1co1m]

Sure. Fine. Whatever.

Now say hello to the nice applicant lady you've been ignoring in favor of my scintillating conversation, why don't you?

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[dinosaurman]

Go to hell.

[turtledove_jill]

"It seems a little odd to me, but there are worse things to study than animals."

[ian_ma1co1m]

Yes, there are. Including - *pointed glance at Grant* - worse kinds of animals to study than hyenas.

[turtledove_jill]

Jill snorts with laughter at that.

Men. No matter where you are, they don't change.

[ian_ma1co1m]

*laughs with her*

Y'know, you seem remarkably comfortable with all this. Suddenly appearing in a strange castle, answering odd questions about cheese, talking to strange people.

[turtledove_jill]

"Well truely, my life's been rather odd right from the start. I mean, I could always see Wildfolk, then my Da took me on the long road and taught me to fight, I'm the only lass who's ever become a silver dagger, and then a perfectly ordinary hire led me to meeting elves, finding out dweomer was real, finding out I have dweomer and that I've lived many lives before this one, and now I live in a supposedly haunted ruin learning dweomer from the man who's loved me for four hundred years. This is very odd, sure enough, but it's either a dream or one more odd thing to add to my life."

[ian_ma1co1m]

Oh, it's not a dream, I can assure you of that much.

And it certainly sounds like you're someone who was meant to find her way to the wizarding world. This place pulls in people from all walks of life, and as best I can tell, the one common denominator among us is that none of us quite *fit* in the regular world, in one way or another.

[turtledove_jill]

Jill laughs again. "Well, I never quite fit, sure enough. Everyone always said I was an odd lass. If this isn't a dream, I wonder if Nevyn will get here, too? Since I just walked in from a doorway in Brin Toraedic, and that's also where he lives."

[ian_ma1co1m]

Well, there's never any telling who will arrive here the way you did, or when. But it's true that people who know each other often seem to find their way here, sometimes in bunches.

The man I was just talking to over there, I knew him long before I was brought here and found him already settled in. Another friend of both of ours just arrived recently. A whole family of talking cats arrived one after another, for another example. So I'd say it's more than possible.

[turtledove_jill]

"Talking cats? Ye gods, now that's something I hadn't heard of before."

[ian_ma1co1m]

Nor had I. They seem to be perfectly ordinary cats. Who talk. In English. *shrugs*