Seven Bells: [ACTION/WRITTEN] Hat Day.

[simplestgift]

[Citizens of Luceti may see Archie Kennedy wandering around with a new hat today. It looks a little like something a magician would pull a rabbit out of, but he seems to be enjoying it. He'll be around town today--the library and grocery store during the day, and Good Spirits in the evening. In the afternoon, he'll sit at the fountain to pen a few words.]

I believe morale might improve if we had some sort of goodbye ceremony for those who were returned home. Not a funeral, mind you, just an occasion to remember them, celebrate their return, and hope to join them soon. Perhaps once a month or so, for everyone who left during the month. It's the little things that help one cope, sometimes.

Also, who left a note under my door? I'm afraid I can't read it, or indeed tell if it was even meant for me. I live in Building One, in the first flat on the first floor.

Comments

[simplestgift]

Good! Very, very good! It was my favorite place in the world when I was a boy.

[consultmybooks]

I never had much chance to stop by, I'm afraid. But it's not an easy building to miss, even now.

[simplestgift]

When you have the time, you should see something there. I nearly put my mother in her grave several times, or so she claimed, by disappearing to sneak in. If it's the same as it was in my time, it's spectacular.

[consultmybooks]

Well, whether or not I have the time is rather a moot point here. [Especially because ever having time back in his world is...rather imposible, right now.]

But I have a friend who might have enjoyed it. Or who might have been willing to stop by, at least.

A shame we didn't have the time, last time we were in London.

[simplestgift]

It is a shame. You're from 2005 as well?

[consultmybooks]

2006. Close enough.

[simplestgift]

They seem to be very fond of that century and the one before it, here.

[consultmybooks]

When they bring in people from the relevant worlds, yes.

But I know a few people from further back, and if you know Buffy then you must know McCoy.

[simplestgift]

Actually, I met him first. I take it you've been here before, and I'm glad to hear you remember it.

[consultmybooks]

I have been, yes. The Malnosso sent me home back in the middle of last December.

Everyone seems to be glad that I remember my previous stay.

Honestly, so am I.

[simplestgift]

Then you left just before I arrived.

Everyone should be glad of it. I'd like to remember if I ever had to leave.

[It's hard enough adjusting the one time.]

[consultmybooks]

It was an exciting end to the year all round, then.

It's easier, certainly. Everyone who suddenly starts talking at you has a name and some measure of trustworthiness.

[simplestgift]

Have you been here before and not remembered?

[consultmybooks]

Not that Buffy's told me. And she did tell Willow, that Willow was here before and hadn't remembered.

[simplestgift]

I see. No one seems to recognize me, so I've been under the assumption that this is my first time here.

[consultmybooks]

Probably.

Or anyone who knew you the last time you were here has been sent home.

But seeing how closely certain villagers keep track, and how long some of them have been here, that isn't terribly likely.

[simplestgift]

Of course.

How long have you known Dawn and Buffy?

[consultmybooks]

[There's a pause before Giles replies.]

By my time, or theirs'?

[simplestgift]

In your world.

[And he does know how iffy time gets with Dawn, but doesn't feel like that would be an appropriate thing to point out.]

[consultmybooks]

A little over nine years.

[simplestgift]

That's a long time to know someone in a war.

[consultmybooks]

Yes, well, sometimes Sunnydale was a very slow war.

[simplestgift]

Not so different from the one I fought in, then. Sometimes I think it was more a continuation of a war than a new one.

[consultmybooks]

Often the case.

Which war was this, then?

[simplestgift]

I think you called them the French Revolutionary Wars by your time.