Book 1, Chapter 1: This Isn't Like Jordan

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

I get this now, press the letters and something anbaric makes them show up on this photogram. Like a projection, only it's a little screen. I saw something like this once, I haven't used one before, but it isn't so hard. The last one I saw was a lot bigger than this one. And this here, they called it a network and said it was for talking to the other people in this big metal dome.

I've been to a lot of places, but never one like this before. They said there was lots of others from different worlds, that right? I haven't really looked around yet, but nobody around here has a daemon, I saw that much. That's not so strange, I've seen people without them. Anyone know how we get here? I'd really like to find out, see, there's still something else that I have to do; and to do it, I really need to know how people can pass through worlds like this. All that stuff about being fake? I don't believe a word of it. People been telling me things all my life and en't half of it's been true.

All the worlds I've been too have been to have been open, and this one's all closed off like something scary's outside. I think something went on in here too.

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[notwalking]

You too. Wish I had stories to tell you like the Captain's.

Well, anything's possible.

[postits]

Clever.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

You don't have any stories?

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

You en't gonna tell me?

[notwalking]

I do. None about dragons.

[postits]

I'm afraid I don't know. It's best to ask others.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Any story will do.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

I'll find out.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for speaking with me, Rube.

[ofthebeast.livejournal.com]

Someone made a fight happen for no good reason. It wasn't that interesting.

Who are you?

[uponawitch.livejournal.com]

We were no less real than the people in here who claim we are, my dear.

[notwalking]

Right, so there once was a boy. He put up with a lot of shit from his father and the dictators who ran his school. All of his friends were in the same position. They were brilliant, you know? Revolutionaries, in their way. They met in an Indian cave to read poetry and discuss the revolution. The one boy was much more passionate about said revolution than the rest. He just needed that push over the edge. When their leader rebelled against the system, it backfired, and then he was gone. Last I saw him, he was being dragged away by his father. It was snowing.

Then the boy got thrown out of the school for inciting a revolt.

Now he's here.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

I thought so too, I en't going to listen to anyone who tells me I'm fake.

What's your name?

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Lots of people make fights for no good reason. Was there something special about this one?

Lyra Silvertongue, who are you?

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

I like that story, Charlie.

[notwalking]

I'm glad. You got any stories?

[uponawitch.livejournal.com]

They're a rather silly bunch.

Yuuko Ichihara.

[ofthebeast.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Someone possessed a number of people and made them fight.

Rhode Camelot. You're interesting, Lyra Silvertongue.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of stories. I've been to a lot of places.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

My name is Lyra Silvertongue.

What was your world like, Yuuko?

[notwalking]

Care to share? I like stories too. It's why the Captain and I get on so well.

[uponawitch.livejournal.com]

Ah!

The world I lived in was very large, everyone's souls were in their bodies, and many people made wishes.

But I knew many other children from many other worlds, though it would take me a while to remember them all.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Wishes? like what they desire?

So you know about the paths between the worlds too!

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Possessed? You seem to know a lot about what went on.

What are you interested in me for?

[uponawitch.livejournal.com]

Yes.

For better or worse, I do. But I don't know many so young who have heard of it.