Thread: Avalon (Hat + Anna)

RE Avalon She peered cock-eyed at the chair that Speaks had pulled up near the altar for a good thirty seconds probably, making sure it wasn't going to curl up like a pangolin tail or wasn't going to snap like a bear trap or any other kind of weirdly ludicrous thing before she finally seemed ready to decide that it was, in fact, just a chair. She still didn't make her way toward it with any kind of haste, but eventually lowered herself into it with her skeptical gaze firmly in place on the Kobold priest. She'd heard that word before, somewhere or another. Josh was probably the one who'd put it anywhere near her lexicon, the fuckin' geek, but she didn't know what it meant other than apparently being Pangolin-People. Mortal danger's not really a positive for any kind of impression, Anna muttered as she steam of the tea hit the underside of her nose and she inhaled. Something about hot tea or coffee or sake always immediately managed to calm her nerves, even before she had tried to take a sip of it. Which she did, a little too quickly, and nearly burned her beestung lips in the process, quickly bringing it back away from them with a nervous cough and shift of her eyes. He was going to think she was an idiot who didn't know what hot was, great. Luckily, he was looking at the walls. Nursing the cup in her hands, she did her best to keep up. It sounded fucked up, to be honest. A bunch of mumbo jumbo, a mish mash of the creation myth not exactly high praise from an agnostic, there and some Lord of the Rings crap. God, she hated that kind of crap. Probably thanks to Josh practically building his life around the stuff, when he wasn't learning to make up for all his geekery by actually being a pretty fucking rad lead guitar. It made after-gig conversations such a drag when she could barely even understand what he and Beth were going on about in their own little nerd world. Thanks to Beth, some of the names he rattled off also sounded vaguely familiar, but .. where from? Fuck if Anna really knew. Maybe every culture had its own myths and stories, and they all intersected in fascinating parallel ways, but if someone was capable of deconstructing that and making a cogent point on the matter, Anna Williams was most definitely not she. She was more into finally sipping the tea when it had cooled enough and nodding occasionally to pretend like she was getting it all. She got the jist, I mean, supposedly some gods made a bunch of different people, Humans were pretty fuckin' smart, and like all the humans she had ever known, were also complete and total assholes. Entitled humans, you say? This is a strange and mysterious world indeed. Anna didn't stop to think for a moment about whether or not his put upon nature, clear distaste for mornings and pains in his ass, would also translate to an appreciation for rancorous sarcasm. But even saying those words was forcing her to make the further acknowledgement that she wasn't waking up. The tea was too real. This was too detailed. He was too real. She really was somewhere else, wasn't she? .. he confirmed it, at least in dream logic. She was Chosen . Not the only one, but definitely one. Which meant their gods were just as fallible and fucked up as all the Earthly ones, apparently. She was trying not to laugh at the Kobold's misfortune, she really was, and the fact that she might have really, genuinely been in a fucked up nerdland and the fear of that reality causing her hands to shake around the cup she was clutching between both of them was the only thing that balanced out her conflicting emotions. Yeah, I get it. I get it, Speaks. But let me tell you, holy crap, if I'm supposed to save you guys or something, and I have to do that to get home, then not a single one of us is gonna be happy with this whole arrangement because I am not the person you want in your corner for all that. So you should probably tell that Spider guy that he should tag me out while he's got the chance. .. it was worth a shot, right? Maybe she'd get to feel good about waking up in her own bed before noon for once if it followed all of this.