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 Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:24 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:59 pm
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Natalie was able to slip past the people who were milling about in the castle courtyard, and she squeezed through a knot of people at the gate, making her way into the village. She'd escaped from the castle, and now she had to regroup. But the problem--well, other than the fact that she was now a fugitive--was that she had no idea if there was a way for her to get back to her own time. The key around her neck (now hidden with her disguise) was the key to a time-traveling car, but the key would do no good to her now. For one thing, it was the key that took the car into the past, and for another thing, the car was stuck in 2014, and it was supposed to look like it was wrecked.
She took a few deep breaths and then wove her way around the marketplace. She would have to figure out some way to barter for food, or else just escape into a forest and hope to survive on berries. She didn't want to risk hunting, since she'd probably get accused of poaching on royal lands or something like that... |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:21 pm
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Suddenly Natalie found herself being accosted by a knight, and her eyes widened. That helmet was shaped like a wolf's head. Odd... Not only that, but she knew she'd seen that coat of arms on his shield before. Where...SHERMAN! It was on James's truck! So this must be his great great great great great great great great great great great granddad... Suddenly Natalie REALLY felt like the heroine of Outlander, who met her HUSBAND'S ancestor when she'd found herself whisked back in time. Only that guy was the Big Bad of the story...brrr!
Hoping and praying that doing theater in college would pay off now, Natalie tried her best to let her speech match the local accent and dialect. This was the first Irishman she'd met so far, so he didn't seem to be from around here either. The rest of the people had sounded British.
"I've so much to do today," she explained, "and I was so tired last night that I slept until almost dawn! Now I've far, far too many chores, and not enough time to do all of them!" |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:33 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:44 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:21 pm
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"Eh?" Natalie squeaked, trying to figure out how in the WORLD she'd manage to say suggestive things without turning red and blowing her cover. Okay, Pierce, you've laughed at enough dirty Monty Python sketches in your life, she silently chided herself. Just think of getting back home, and do what you have to!
She chuckled. "I can smile and look pretty, but it'll take a lot to keep me from blushin'! Not that I've never heard lewd comments before, but it's a little harder to make dirty jokes than it is to hear 'em!"
She was doing the "smile and look pretty" thing when another knight approached the pair.
"Halt!" the knight ordered. "Sir knight, your help is needed here! A witch has escaped the castle, and if she is not found, she could destroy the kingdom!" The man turned his helmeted head toward Natalie. "Beware the witch...she could take any form. See to it that no one bewitches you!" A snort. "We have ways to tell if the wench is a witch..."
((I fail so hard at writing NPC baddies. And medieval talk. *snerk*)) |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:31 pm
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