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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:57 pm
Lissie took the book offered to her. She began to read, eyes widening and facebface darkening. She offered him the book back quickly. “...Not that progressive,” she said, awkwardly. Were all books like this? She swallowed and shook her head, trying to clear her head of what she’d read.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:59 pm
Michael laughed richly and took the book back.
"Honestly, most literature nowadays isn't either. That one is a special case." He went back to put the book down and motioned for Lissie to come in. "They only put the books they want to sell on the ends. Sometimes the best ones are nestled in here." He picked up another and began to read the summary on the back cover.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:28 am
A special case? Who would want to read something--something...so...so...Lissie failed at finding a word that described how improper the book was. She took a book off the shelf and studied the back cover before flipping through it. She put it back, and took another, doing the same.
"So I can just conjure these whenever?" she asked, quietly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:42 am
"It might take a little practice, but yes, you should be able to," Michael said, "In time you may be able to conjure books you've never held as well. I can't say for certain. Again, I've never met another spirit to not cross over." He offered Lissie a little smirk, and then wandered into the next aisle and began to look through the video games. Was there something Dari might like to play? Something he could bring to Kevin?
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 8:01 am
Lissie picked up a few books that had interesting or colorful looking covers before following Michael into the video games section. “What are these?” She asked. Electronics? She picked one up and turned it over. “They look interesting,” she said. “How do you use them?”
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:16 pm
"There are small machines that you put them in, and you can play a game in a 3D rendered world," Michael said, "The men you met? They enjoy these quite a bit, and there's a boy at HQ that does as well. We play them together, as I can get into the machine itself. He likes to play jokes on people."
Unfortunately, Michael didn't know too much about the specifics of certain games, only what little Kevin had taught him over time. He didn't feel comfortable buying something blindly. "I'm sure he'll let you come and watch, if you wanted to. It really is quite interesting. See?" He turned a box over and pointed to an in-game screenshot. "That's what it looks like when you play. Very advanced."
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:30 pm
Ahhh... No, Lissie still didn’t understand. But if the alien and Toby liked them, she supposed she’d be seeing them used. “You play with him?” She asked, and gave him a smile. “I’d like to meet him sometime.” And watch. She looked over the screenshot and hesitated.
It looked real, almost. How did they get that way? It was beautiful. “People are very talented, in this time.”
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:47 pm
"I'm sure he would like to meet you too," Michael said with a smile, but honestly he wasn't sure. If Kevin was of the age to start liking girls, he didn't show it. Lissie might get free friendship points just because it was Michael she was dating, and two ghosts in a haunted console could be twice as fun. "He's a kelpie. You're going to meet a lot of human-looking entities."
He looked back down to the box and shrugged as he replaced it on the shelf.
"Talents have simply shifted... or expanded. There is still music, but there is also computer science and film. I mean, you see what they've done with photography."
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:44 pm
“A kelpie?” Lissie thought for a moment before looking to Michael. “What is a kelpie?” Some humanoid entity, then? “What else is there?” She asked. Aliens, ghosts, kelpies and what else?
“What’s the music like now?” She asked. Everything had changed so much, surely music had as well.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:03 pm
"A sort of fae swamp horse," Michael said, "He has a human form, though. There's-- everything. If you can imagine it, it likely exists. That and then some." He looked up to the televisions on the back wall then, displaying some advertisement rather than the usual music videos.
"It's hard to describe. We can listen to some when we get back. I don't know if you'll like some of it, but a lot of it is good. It's simply different."
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:49 pm
Oh! That! The swamp creature that dragged people down to their deaths and ate them? ...But Michael seemed to talk about him as if he was a friend. Everything? ...”So is every legend true?” She asked, wide eyed. The stories of murderous creatures in the ocean depths, the stories of monsters, the tales of pigs in the sewers of London? Ghosts were obviously real—but had the ghosts in photographs and cemeteries been?
“It’ll be nice to listen. The piano we had was removed a long time ago.”
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:52 pm
"Well, no. Perhaps that was an exaggeration. Humanity has created their own legends out of thin air for as long as there has been humanity. It just so happens that a lot of them seem to have not been so fantastical." He went to take Lissie's hand then, found her arms full, and took her clothes to fold over his arm.
"I'll be right back. Will you be alright here for a moment?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:19 pm
Oh. Lissie nodded in understanding. Some stories really just were parents keeping children safe and away from dangerous things. “I’ll be fine,” she promised, and smiled at him. She picked up a video game and began to read the back.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:23 pm
Michael gave a soft bow, losing himself a bit to old habits in the presence of another Victorian, and then went for the front of the store where he retrieved a cart. He hung Lissie's new outfit from the back of the child basket and returned to her, pushing the cart near her to allow her to put her books down.
"Would you like to go see the food now? Or is there something else you would like to see?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:37 pm
Lissie put her books back on the shelf and smiled at Michael. "I'd like to see all the different kinds of food," she said. Food couldn't effect her body anymore, but there had to be so many things to try! Fruits and--all the things. "What kind of foods would you like to try with me?" she asked, curiously.
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