SPACE COAST: PRIVATE CONVO: LOVELACE

[murdergate]

[ who's driving the car? ]

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[murdergate]

[ blue hands!! cute.

nodd remains alongside lovelace and the e.l.c. as it begins to step forward. a very light step to begin with. ]

Very good. We'll go along the perimeter, see how you feel. And I'll have a fun story to tell a druid I know if I get to see him again.

[thematics]

[ she does not think it's cute... ]

... So you're used to riding—not machines like this, probably, but animals? Horses?

[murdergate]

Horses, donkeys. An actual elk but with more legs than this. Too many legs. That druid I mentioned--he has interesting beast forms.

[ a pet to the e.l.c.'s metal flank. ]

I take it you haven't, though.

[thematics]

Nnno. We have... cars. Not a lot of need to ride animals.

And we don't have druids. At least, not the same way.

[murdergate]

[ sure, he knows what a car is now, via exposure to all sorts of shit aboard the eudora. they don't sound that fun, though. like, you can't bond with a honda. ]

Ah, you're from magicless planet Earth?

[ see! learned stuff! ]

[thematics]

Yeah. Just a whole lot of science. Which can feel similar, sometimes.

[murdergate]

[ nods. ]

Before the Eudora, I thought all space travel was done via magic--via portal. I didn't know you could build a vessel.

[thematics]

Ha. Portals would make things easier. We don't have those.

[murdergate]

As far as I know, only full-blood elves from the old families do, anyway. They wouldn't be open to sharing with you or me.

[thematics]

That's so stingy...

[murdergate]

I agree.

[ he's no elven loyalist. the opposite, even. ]

You seem comfortable now. Not so bad, riding, is it?

[thematics]

It's not bad.

[ ... ]

But if you step away and leave me up here alone I'll kill you. [ ok ]

[murdergate]

Wouldn't dream of it.