Among the trees
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onceavikingEric seems to have a very specific tree in mind, steering Athelstan down paths invisible to the human eye.
The tree turns out to be an oak, widespread and solid.
The tree turns out to be an oak, widespread and solid.
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Date: 2015-09-19 05:29 pm (UTC)Eric shrugs.
Then he adds, "I can't feel her. Anywhere."
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Date: 2015-09-19 05:30 pm (UTC)"Is there a limit to that connection? Of distance?"
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Date: 2015-09-19 05:58 pm (UTC)Or dead. But he is not going to say that.
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Date: 2015-09-19 05:59 pm (UTC)"Are there - other places she could be? Places like Milliways?"
Clearly she's not actually in Milliways.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:00 pm (UTC)That explains everything.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:01 pm (UTC)"Ah. So she might have gone to their country."
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:19 pm (UTC)She'll come back.
She has to.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:20 pm (UTC)"Could her brother not go to look for her there? Or does he not have the fairy blood?"
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:23 pm (UTC)"He doesn't," he says with absolute certainty.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:24 pm (UTC)Well, Eric would know.
"Still. Without proof she's never coming back, to sell her home..." He shakes his head.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:27 pm (UTC)"But now it'll be waiting for her. For when she returns."
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:28 pm (UTC)Athelstan nods.
"And will be safe for - well, certainly for her possible lifespan."
Probably longer.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:30 pm (UTC)"Yes. It will stand as she left it."
Then he smiles a little.
"And seeing as it is now my house, I won't need an invitation once she returns."
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:32 pm (UTC)Athelstan eyes him.
"She may not be so grateful when she learns that fact."
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:37 pm (UTC)"She'll come around," he says.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:38 pm (UTC)"Perhaps. If you don't abuse the ability too much."
Nobody likes people sneaking into their house, vampire or not.
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Date: 2015-09-19 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-19 06:54 pm (UTC)Athelstan laughs quietly. "I suppose, if there are other dangers than vampires - or she accidentally invites one in."
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Date: 2015-09-19 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-19 07:16 pm (UTC)"What does Bill Compton have to say about all this?"
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Date: 2015-09-19 07:25 pm (UTC)He sounds smug.
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Date: 2015-09-19 07:28 pm (UTC)"I can't imagine he took that lightly."
Which doesn't mean it got him anywhere.
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Date: 2015-09-19 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-19 07:37 pm (UTC)"And sharing it with everyone around him?"
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Date: 2015-09-19 07:55 pm (UTC)Eric sounds disdainful.
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