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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 16:21:21 GMT -5
He looked momentarily crestfallen. "Which means I could never visit you!"
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 16:24:43 GMT -5
"I probably won't be staying there much longer anyway," Meg told him, patting his hand consolingly.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 16:25:44 GMT -5
"Oh... oh, really?" asked Adrien, who had been about to blurt out that he could probably pretend to be a girl sometime.
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 16:27:29 GMT -5
She nodded, a little gloomily.
"I'm probably going to have to stay in some horrible old house in Vienna where it's just me rattling around like a pea in a box and a few old chaperones..."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 16:28:45 GMT -5
"But Vienna is pretty," said Adrien, flipping through the postcards quickly. "Also I like that you say 'pea in a box!' What are you going there?"
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 16:43:10 GMT -5
"It's all because my whole family moved forward and got older, and Mama and Sir Percy had children too, and I somehow got left behind still fifteen," Meg sighed, with a very teenage chin-in-hand slump. "And now my sister that I've never met and is really my younger sister but isn't all at is married to Kaiser Rudolf-"
She stopped suddenly.
"...I must sound mad."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 17:26:54 GMT -5
"Nope, not at all," said Adrien, now starting to get very excited, and having a hard time keeping still, "because really I've been thinking and I don't think Adrian is from the same time as me at all - "
He also stopped suddenly.
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 17:31:55 GMT -5
"Hmmm?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 17:34:10 GMT -5
"Well, I saw a picture of his father who was wearing the Nazi armband at the time, but they didn't exist back when he was a boy! So it couldn't possibly have been... I think I've got to be about thirty years off."
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 17:37:04 GMT -5
"A what?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 17:50:19 GMT -5
"Nazi armband - it's a - That's a political party in Germany," he said dismissively. "But it's a new one, like very new, and he's almost fifty!... so... if his dad was one then he was a child about - "
Adrien froze.
How old was Adrian in 1939, if it still was, indeed, 1939?
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 17:54:38 GMT -5
"I've never heard of them," said Meg, to whom it was still 1881.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 17:56:18 GMT -5
"S'cool, politics is boring everywhere," said Adrien with a dismissive shrug. "But my point is just.... he'd have to be a kid now in order for his dad to be one. So I think one of us is from a different time than the other. Which actually means - "
He started, however, to giggle.
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Post by Meg Giry on Jan 15, 2010 18:19:35 GMT -5
"Yes?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 15, 2010 18:20:25 GMT -5
"That I'm the older one," he said, through giggling.
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