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[silk_for_calde]

[VOICE POST]
It has been two weeks since I arrived here, and finally I feel as though I'm starting to understand this place. More or less. I don't know whether I am more surprised by the differences between this city and Viron, or the similarities; finding the rare and often distorted commonalities is shocking since most things around me are so alien. It doesn't help that things are so inconsistent here, due to what I am given to understand is the will of the city's gods. Ours were rarely so involved, at least now; once, of course, it was more common for men to converse with them, but these days very few live who have done so.
Certainly there are some redeeming qualities, here; for one thing if I do not watch myself, I shall get fat before I return to my own whorl. And I must confess the amount of information available, with the use of this computer-glass, is a thrill. I have heard there is a library, as well, though I have yet to visit it myself. I have always liked to read, though I probably should not do as much as I have been, having lost my glasses.

So, I am curious, city-- what is it that surprised you most about this place, other than your sudden arrival in it?
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[ooc: phwee, may be a little slow on tagging but i will get back to you i swear ^^ ♥]

Comments

[lionesscouchant.livejournal.com]

So many people!

[silk_for_calde]

Ah, it is rather crowded, isn't it? I think there are more people here than in Viron, but the city is larger than mine was. What sort of whorl do you come from?

[lionesscouchant.livejournal.com]

What's a whorl?

[silk_for_calde]

Perhaps you would say world? Old habits die hard, I'm afraid; I'm not quite used to the language here.

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Library is wonderful! You should definitely come see it.

I work there!

[silk_for_calde]

I certainly plan to. I've been learning my way around slowly. We didn't have much at the Schola besides religious texts, of course, but I have always liked reading.

My name is Silk; I don't think we have met before, have we?

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

I'm Rain, and no, I don't think we've met. I'd remember your name.

Voice

[eastern-magic.livejournal.com]

Being mistaken for a girl and landing in the fountain.

Voice

[silk_for_calde]

I could see how that would be unpleasant.
Who mistook you for a girl?

Voice

[eastern-magic.livejournal.com]

Every man I seemed to cross paths with.

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

There's audio books at the library, so that should help.

For me, it's getting to meet people from fictional stories from back home.

[silk_for_calde]

Audio books? How does that work?

That must be quite unusual! I haven't met anyone I recognized even remotely from my whorl, whether real or fictional. What an odd idea-- so, somewhere, are fictional whorls real as well, then?

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

You can play them on your computer and it reads them to you.

Yep. That's what amazed me at first. It still does most of the time, too.

[vampbratprince.livejournal.com]

Waking up in a new place was rather startling. Only for a moment though.

[silk_for_calde]

Ah, so you got your bearings quickly? I wish I could say the same; the kind people I've met here have helped me greatly, but I still find myself bewildered on a daily basis, sadly.

Was your whorl much like this one, then?

[vampbratprince.livejournal.com]

I have a talent for adapting to new situations so there was little challenge to it.

However, I cannot really say that my world was much like this one.

audio;

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I hope that Lucy's inquisitive nature is of no bother to you.

[Voice]

[silk_for_calde]

Not at all-- I don't mind talking about my whorl, and I am quite curious myself about others. I fear I might be confusing her, though, inadvertently...
Which is, unfortunately, something I seem to do rather often.

[Voice]

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I do not think it would be entirely your fault if she is confused.

[orderonto]

It is often when things are very nearly familiar that the small discrepancies are the most disturbing to us. Likewise, when things are the most alien, do we find the most comfort in similarity.

[silk_for_calde]

Indeed, it is a good kind of surprise, finding familiar things... but a shock no less.

You are Suresh, I think you've said? I don't know if we have met properly; my name is Silk.

[orderonto]

The familiar is always there, in the strange. We just have to stare long enough.

I am. Silk is your surname, then? Just for my own understanding.

[unkindnessof.livejournal.com]

Just be careful around the shelves; they like to play games sometimes.

[silk_for_calde]

Who likes to play games?

[unkindnessof.livejournal.com]

The books and the shelves. The Library itself; it apparently has some semblance of sentience.