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[ostro_goth]

Teja is by the fireplace, eschewing the sunlight; he has his harp and plays a soft, sad melody, his fingers moving as if on their own while he gazes into the fire and thinks.

Oh, and he has much to think of, and to feel pain for!

Not only has Asher returned, and been hurt so deeply, mere minutes from his entrance, when Teja told him, straight

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[fiery_ring]

A sherbet lemon drops down into the grim Goth's lap.

But can he spot the thrower...

[fiery_ring]

"I don't think I'd want to."

[ostro_goth]

"I think I do," Teja says.

[fiery_ring]

"I think people get to do it recreationally in the future, but it's too expensive in my time."

[ostro_goth]

"I am sure my friend CJ has an aeroplane I might fly out of," Teja muses.

[fiery_ring]

"Do be careful." Carlotta says. "If I were to do such a thing the new Matron would have kittens."

[ostro_goth]

"Kittens are a good thing!" Teja says.

[fiery_ring]

"Not literally, sir."

[ostro_goth]

"And if she knew not, because it happened in another world?" Teja says.

[fiery_ring]

"Eileen would tell her."

[ostro_goth]

"And Eileen magically knows what you do in strange worlds?" Teja says.

[fiery_ring]

"Well she's pretty good at telling on everything else we get up to."

[ostro_goth]

"I am sure that she would not guess," Teja says. "Matron, Carlotta Brown went to a strange world with a dead Ostrogoth to fly from a aeroplane with a parachute -- I think she must be punished!, and the matron would say, Oh yes, she must copy two hundred verses from the psalms for that, which is the usual punishment for this sin! and then, it would be done."

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta, tickled by this, bursts out laughing.

[ostro_goth]

"Ridiculous, as I said," Teja says, not batting an eyelash.

[fiery_ring]

"I still wouldn't want to do it." Carlotta says, when she's finished laughing. "I have enough fun with that on the trapese."