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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 5, 2007 17:16:10 GMT -5
"You might have been happier..."
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Post by Erik on Sept 5, 2007 17:50:33 GMT -5
"But the world would be the same," *he concluded bitterly. He looked up at Megan again, seriously.* "Will this modern world of yours come soon enough to help her?"
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 6, 2007 14:32:35 GMT -5
"Erik, I wasn't even born until 1989."
((New topic started at Hogwarts, BTW.))
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Post by Erik on Sept 6, 2007 15:14:59 GMT -5
"But surely advances in medicine did not wait for your birth. Surely something came before."
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 6, 2007 15:17:48 GMT -5
"Honestly, the good stuff didn't really start until I was in my mid-childhood. There was some face-remodelling stuff in World War I, but that was pretty brutal in its own right."
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Post by Erik on Sept 6, 2007 15:23:45 GMT -5
"Damn," *he said.* "Perhaps I should find some way to send you both to the future. While skipping the intervening years, of course."
*He looked up suddenly.*
"You wouldn't happen to have another fairy godmother, would you?"
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 6, 2007 15:27:37 GMT -5
"I don't even know where I got the first one."
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Post by Erik on Sept 6, 2007 15:30:29 GMT -5
*Erik sighed.*
"It seems as if you will always be ugly," *he told his daughter.* "Wait; what did you say about a world war?"
*That sounded promising.*
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 7, 2007 16:19:12 GMT -5
"Yeah. It supposedly started with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria."
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Post by Erik on Sept 7, 2007 16:20:31 GMT -5
((MEGAN YOUR FACE, IT IS GONE!))
*Erik waved his hand negligently.*
"Erik is not concerned with one man's life or death. Do you mean to say the entire world engaged in armed conflict over the death of one man?"
*He shook his head.*
"Erik will never understand the future."
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 7, 2007 16:30:58 GMT -5
"It's more complicated than that. Anyway, there were new weapons in this war. Bad weapons. There were more severely disfigured veterans coming home than in any previous war, so doctors started studying ways to rebuild faces."
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Post by Erik on Sept 7, 2007 16:51:57 GMT -5
*Erik felt frustrated all over again at his inability to time travel. She could not teach him these things--only *of* them. He sighed.*
"Well then... It seems we are stuck here and now. And Erik's responsibilities multiply like Hydra's heads. Is there anything you require, Megan, of your life here?"
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 7, 2007 16:56:08 GMT -5
"Proserpina is going to need clothes, and a bassinet, and toys when she gets older..."
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Post by Erik on Sept 7, 2007 17:07:16 GMT -5
"Toys?" *he echoed.* "Why, Erik never had any! Any that he didn't fashion himself, that is. Erik..."
*He halted suddenly.*
"That is... reason enough for her to have them, is it not?"
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Post by Lady Norrington on Sept 10, 2007 10:35:28 GMT -5
"I think so."
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