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[ River can be seen wandering around the common area of Odin's Welcome Hall almost as though in a trancelike state. Her steps are light and even, ball to toe on bare feet, and her fingers trail over every object she passes even though her eyes are wandering curiously around the ceiling and the walls and the rest of the room - never to what she's touching. It might seem like she's looking for something, or even listening for something, but she doesn't seem to find it, and never once ceases her calculated footsteps. Eventually the video times out. ]

[ Some time later, the video clicks back on and River's face fills the entire feed, far too close as she tries to peer into the little jewel of her bracelet. She eventually gives up and pulls back to show brown eyes wide and curious, dark hair framing pallid skin that's ... almost gold in the scant lighting.

She's sitting in the middle of the slide, feet tucked underneath her to stop her from going down any further. Her eyes skitter around the confined space before settling back on the bracelet. She says only two words as a whisper, like if she says it any louder, it might break the spell. ]

It's quiet.

[ ooc; for those of you in Odin, feel free to run into River in either part of the post - and I do mean literally, someone should run into her in the slide. 8) edit: I totally forgot! hover for Chinese translations! thanks to Holly for teaching me that trick and Google for my butchered Chinese. |Db ]

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If even that. Some are very hard to slow down.

Is she an explorer too?

She could be. She's also an archeologist. And a traveller, and likes the exciting and dangerous, like me.

Busy people.

[ wonder what it's like ... ]

We try to be.

We're not just any regular traveller, though. We're time travellers.

Time Lord. Blue box?

Yes! My blue box is called the TARDIS, short for Time and Relative Dimension In Space, and it's especially made by my people to be able to travel in space and time.

T - A - R - D - I - S.

[ Break it down into pieces and put it back together. She perks up. ]

You can play with the strings.

I probably can. But the strings of what, exactly?

Yīqiè.

Ah.

Yes. Something like that.

[MOVING ON that could get touchy.]

Thing with gold-River is that she doesn't travel together with me, so we tend to meet up in the wrong order. First time I met her, she knew everything about me.

Tag. You're late.

I seem to have a tendency to be a little late. Or a lot late. What is it this time?

She got there first. Or you got there second. But now you're It. That's how the game works.

Ah.

[He scratches his cheek.]

Is there always a game going?

Always a game. Always - playing. A game.

Yeah.

We probably all are, aren't we? You're a really clever one.

Edited 2012-09-15 11:02 (UTC)

[ She lowers her head, but there's a faint softness to her eyes. It's a compliment, she thinks. ]

One of the few to think so.

[ Not true. One of the many. But they all think she's either crazy or a weapon, so. ]

[Well, he buys it because it wouldn't be a first. Either people don't see it, or they see it too much, a lot of the time. So he definitely gets it.]

That seems to be the case more often than not.

[ She doesn't know what to say to that. By all accounts, he must be rather clever too, but - Doctor, and she can't hear him to know.

River simply eyes him for a moment before resting her head on her knees and turning away from the feed. Neat silence, back to her controlled conditions, and eventually the feed times out. ]

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