[meme] test drive

[citycouncil]

A bit late. Sorry, folks!

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[only_good_teacher]

Tom's seen a lot of students in his day with nervous, hurried speech. This woman knocks them all out of the park. Still, his expression is calm and patient.

"I imagine you're feeling more than a little lost," he begins, offering a reassuring smile. "That's understandable and, perhaps unfortunately, normal. I'm Tom. This city is Darrow, it's, ah... I hesitate to say 'magic'? But that's about as close to the truth as any of us have been able to figure out."

[off_tempo]

"Right. Okay." She nods once, quickly, her expression scrunched up tightly as she tries to sort through the questions clamoring around her head. "Feeling lost, yes. More than a little. But that's normal. Kind of. Where I came from. Things go wrong, you know, people get lost, sometimes you never find them again. But this..." She looks around at the unfamiliar city, the noise of it all. "This is where I ended up. And you were expecting that, which means..." What does it mean.

She looks back at Tom. "This place. Darrow, you said. It's where people end up. There's some kind of draw here, like the magic is sort of funneling in. Or is it active? A spell cast on purpose- that would take so much energy. Where's it coming from?"

She blinks. Tom's staring at her. "Who's 'us'?" she asks a bit sheepishly.

[only_good_teacher]

He can't help but feel a little impressed by how quickly Bellara has made the connection that he'd been preparing to dance his way towards. She's answered her own question neatly, but it's led her to ask a question he can't answer.

He settles for answering the one that he can.

"'Us' is people like you and me, who've found our way here from our own places and times," he says, trying to remember how Daniel had explained it to him, the very first time they'd met. "We're not all from the same places, but somehow, we've all ended up here. For some of us, that's been a tremendous improvement to our lives." There's a brief, sheepish look of his own as he worries he gives too much of himself away, before he adds, "but there are others of us who spend the entire time they're here looking for a way out. And so far, there doesn't seem to be one." He can at least be genuinely sympathetic towards those who want to leave and can't. Darrow has been, more than likely, a lifesaver for Tom, but that doesn't mean everyone loves it.