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[john_ofdarkness]

*this is not a song that anyone in the mansion might know--it's a song of John's composing, the overture to his musical about Houdini. he's trying to make a key change work, and having only partial success*

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[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

So you're going to try to stop being rude or try to get along being rude anyway? *puzzled*

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*smirks* Stop being rude, although I'm old and set in my ways, and unlikely to change.

Typist: Must go to drive my sister about; back in a few hours!

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

((The notifications have almost caught up.))

You haven't been that rude to me. Other than not believing who I am.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

((Oh, excellent!))

*has decided to humor him, and shrugs* You're whoever you say you are, duck--sorry for disbelieving you at first.

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Do you?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Believe you, or disbelieve you?

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Do you believe me? I think it is all a coincidence.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I doubt it's a coincidence--but certainly there's something else here to which I'm not yet privy.

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's because you don't believe in the magic of the Mansion. Have you seen the plothole?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

The cabinet? Yes, I've found that.

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

So why don't you believe in the Mansion's magic?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that magic has uprooted you from a novel and put you here?

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

If I ever was in a novel. *dark tone* Though I can certainly see why someone might think Sir Percy's exploits were good story fodder, when it was a safe story to tell.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I'm not making it up--there is a rather famous novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, about Sir Percy and his lot--including you. They've made it into a film, and a musical.

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

*ruefully* Very well. I am Percy Blakeney's brother-in-law, even if you think I'm mad. I'm just out of time, I suppose. *seems really far less worried about that than being believed*

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Out of your--are other people here also 'out of their times'? *because actually, that would explain a lot about Zjendjan--*

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I mentioned Chris is from the 1930's. And Lord Henry is from... the late 1800's I believe. Who knows when the elves are from? There's quite a few of them around. Those German children are, I think, from the early 20th century as well, or perhaps Lord Henry's time. Far after mine but not so far forward as Draco and Harry.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*pauses, considering--passing over the elves for a second* Who are the German children, precisely?

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Mlle. Ilse and her friend, Wendla. There are the boys, as well, but I never can remember their names. One of them killed Price Paul a few weeks ago.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*wracks his brain--he remembers one play with those names very precisely, though, because he was startled to find a play with gay content from so long ago--* Would the boys be named Melchior, Moritz, and--damn, what were the gay ones' names--Ernst and Hans, Hansel ... Hanschen. Are those their names?

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

*thinks a moment with a faraway look in his eyes* Yes, that's them. I know the M ones... Moritz and Melchior. I met them briefly anyway.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*a helpless sort of laugh* The characters of Hamlet. God. It wasn't one of Buzz's jokes--

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Why would it be a joke?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Because the characters of Hamlet are dead--and fictional. *shakes his head* I'm beginning to doubt my own reality.

[sweariwontdie.livejournal.com]

Don't do that. *small smile* Rather, trust our reality.