004 - Bringing the First Taste of the Spring

[n0secondchances]

[Ten's gone walking through the castle today, curious to explore the building that's causing them all so much fuss. He doesn't make it very far, though, before he spots a single acorn sitting right in the middle of the lobby.

Funny... it wasn't quite the right season for acorns, was it?

Picking it up, he'll turn it over in his palm, when he notices

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[whichswan]

[ Nina has been walking around the Castle, poking around the hallways and public areas to get used to her new home, find out where stuff are. Reaching the lobby, she looks up to admire the grand chandelier, not noticing the man lying on the floor before her. Nina stumbles on him with a gasp. ]

Oh. Oh. I'm so sorry--I wasn't looking!

[whichswan]

[ She nods, relieved that he is stepping past it already. Nina tweaks a smile as he rambles though she turns away again when her turn comes. ]

I'm not. Sometimes my dreams seem so real I don't know if I'm awake or not. I don't know if I'm awake now.

[n0secondchances]

[glancing at her thoughtfully. This wasn't an easy fix. He could try to assure her it wasn't a dream...but isn't that exactly what a figment of her dream would do?]

Well then... maybe a bit of a test. [reaching into his pocket, he'll pull out his journal (which probably doesn't help the feeling of this being a dream. It doesn't look like that should have fit at all), and flip to an open pages. Scrawling a short message on the page, he'll hold it out to her so she can see "Hello, Nina. I'm the Doctor." written there]

What do you see?

[whichswan]

[ Nina watches him intently, not knowing if at anytime he will morph into Thomas or Von Rothbart or her duplicate. But he seems content to stay the way he is for now. She leans closer to read the writing out loud. ]

"Hello, Nina. I'm the Doctor."

Is that your real name?

[n0secondchances]

Yep! That's me. The Doctor.

[pulling the book away, he moves it so it's too far away to read, but never lets it leave her sight. He also is careful not to turn the pages] Now...words are tricky things in dreams. They never quite want to stay the same. So, if I put this back in front of you and they're something different? Well...then I guess you're dreaming. Which would be a bit disturbing, all things considered. I don't exactly care for being a dream-version of me instead of the me-me. But!

If I put this back in front of you and it's all exactly the same...then you know it's all real, yeah?

[whichswan]

Uhm.

[ She squints her eyes at the book, nodding slowly to his words. ]

They look the same. So... I guess not.

[n0secondchances]

Lovely! Being a dream would have awfully inconvenient. [grinning a little]

So, Miss Nina...how do you feel about these little fellows, knowing they are, in fact, quite real?

[nodding to the little eyes pooled around his feet]

[whichswan]

[ Nina returns the grin with an amused smile of her own. This place and the people she has met so far have made her feel different--more relaxed. She shrugs in reply, crossing her arms in front of her. ]

I don't know. At least, they're harmless.

[n0secondchances]

Oh, that they certainly are.

A bit curious, showing up so suddenly the way they did. But harmless indeed.

It's quite fascinating, really.