the_seafarer: (NPC: Reepicheep)
Caspian X ([personal profile] the_seafarer) wrote2021-12-08 10:53 am

[AU] to find all you seek

It is hardly unusual that the door opens. 

It is slightly unusual, perhaps, that it opens seemingly on its own, onto a warm green land bordered by a calm, gleaming sea that smells of salt and something like lilies.

With such a view, anyone glancing out the door might be forgiven if they did not see the individual for whom it opened – not unless they glanced down.

And then down some more, where a mouse – a Mouse – stands on its back legs, studying the room before it with a soldier's practiced eye. It is about a foot high, darkly furred, and a scarlet feather nods rakishly from a golden circlet it wears about one ear. 

Apparently making up its mind, the Mouse enters, and the door closes. 

(One story ends, and another begins.)

The Mouse scurries – er, climbs – to the top of a seat at the Bar and lifts its small, impatient voice. "Hey there!" it calls. "Who is master of this alehouse?"
sai_delgado: (brown leather jacket)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ka is like a wind, it's said in Mejis, and Susan Delgado has more reason than most to know it true. Perhaps it's ka that's the reason she's perched at the end of the bar at present rather than in her usual preferred place on a familiar couch, a glass of root beer near at hand and painstakingly crafting a letter to sai Bernard about the need to discuss winter shelter preparations with him when it's convenient.

At the patron's cry she looks up, a welcoming smile on her face, even as her eyes widen.

"Long days and pleasant nights, sai -- sai Mouse," she decides. "Are ye new-come, then?"
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aye, I kennit," says Susan, who's all too familiar with the phenomenon of doors appearing in the air to lead elsewhere.

(other worlds than these)

But it's the way the talking mouse addresses her that causes a visible flicker of surprise and a sudden dawning realization, and she sets her letter aside to get to her feet and return his bow with a deep curtsey and a bright, warm smile.

"We're well-met, I hope," she tells him. "I'm Susan Delgado, late of Hambry in Mejis, and I'll answer yer questions as best I can."
sai_delgado: (sweet sunshine smile)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
And oh, but as she hears his name, her warm smile brightens into a shining thing of delight. Susan clasps her hands before her.

"Well-met indeed, sai Reepicheep," she tells him. "Nay, this place isn't in Aslan's Country, but ye can reach it from there. It's a waystation - we'd say a waystation on the side of the Tower - that connects worlds, and there's all sorts that come here."

She pats the top of the bar, murmuring a request to hold her letter and her drink for now.

"There's someone else I know who'd be delighted to see ye, say true. Would'ee do me the kindness of coming with me outside?"
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Her breath stops in her throat as he throws himself into the air, only to resume with relief as he lands so gracefully.

"It's this way, an'ye would," she tells him, matching her pace to his. "Ye asked about the Barman - that'd be sai Bernard, Bernard Wrangle. He oversees all of it, I wot. I report to him for matters to do with the stables, do'ee ken?"

She opens the lake door and glances around for any sign of Caspian. A flash of movement near the Hope catches her eye, and she starts that way.
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aye," she tells him, waving toward the neatly-kept building and paddocks beyond. "I'll show ye, if ye'd have it so. We've a goodly number of threaded stock under our care."

There's pride in her voice, but she doesn't turn her steps that way. Susan's very clearly leading him toward the boat and the young man working there, as she raises one hand and waves, trying to catch his attention.
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She catches up in time to hear this last, and goes suddenly more pale herself as she realizes what she's done by not warning him. Susan gives Caspian an apologetic look as she drops gracefully to the grass near the Mouse, so that he doesn't have to look up at her. "Nay - sai Reepicheep, fear not, say true. Yer King has been restored here as ye see him, but all is as ye hoped 'twould be when ye met again."
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
She remains seated on the grass for now, but smiles up at Caspian at that.

"We are well-met," she tells Reepicheep. "Caspian's told me of ye before, and I'm so glad to see ye. But cry yer pardon, I do, for not warning ye who it was ye'd be meeting here."
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
She blinks fog-gray eyes at him in surprise and shakes her head.

"Ye aren't, and I'll not hear it. There's naught of debt between us, sai Reepicheep, say true."
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
“Sai Gimli can help, I wot.” Susan looks up at Caspian. “Have thee met him?”
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan looks slightly alarmed at this, but follows Caspian’s lead and turns to Reepicheep.

“He’s right,” she tells him. “There’s a security team meant to keep the peace inside. And one of my dearest friends is among them.”
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan blinks at the authority in Caspian’s tone, and glances from him to the Mouse.

(dinh)

“He is respected, though,” she says, softly, after a moment. “If that helps.”
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
For all that Susan’s ever been taught to make her manners proper, she’s never faced a situation quite like this. Still, she decides her course immediately and climbs to her feet only to sink into a deep curtsey before settling back to the ground beside Caspian.

“I’m ever so pleased to make yer acquaintance, sai- Sir Reepicheep,” she corrects herself, with a faint blush.
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[personal profile] sai_delgado 2021-12-08 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aye, and gladly," she tells him, while she busily fixes all of his titles in her memory as best she can. Susan's smile is warm.

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