243 - [Video] Backdated to the Beginning of the Flood

[impure_tale]

[Someone appears to have gotten the hang of this device quickly, despite never having seen the like before. He's...oddly familiar. It's the eyes, the arch of his brow, the lips. ...And then of course there's all the stuff in the background, including a familiar dog, the fireplace, bookcases...

The Marquis is either looking VERY good for seventy-eight, better than normal, or...]

Such a wonder, this pretty little thing. I see the entries, and I see they are in my diction, with my name on them -- but the man in the pictures -- he's so very old. I cannot deny his resemblance to some of my kin. A little of my father. So much of my mother.

[He purses his cherub lips in a mixture of bemusement and frustration.]

Curious. Very curious. So tell me, lovelies. What manner of people does this secret kinsman of mine interact with, day by day? Is he a libertine such as I? Come now, don't be shy.

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[shakenandlimp]

Libertine? I'd say so!

But I'll wager he is exactly you. You won't be the first man to wish himself young by mistake today.

[impure_tale]

Oh, English. [He practically purrs this.]

[shakenandlimp]

Yes, English. Have you forgot the war while you were forgetting everything else?

[impure_tale]

[He shrugs.] The war is over, and I'm always pleased to extend an olive branch, especially in such close quarters.

[shakenandlimp]

There'll be another, you know.

But I've no quarrel with you, so there's no need for branches.

[Audio]

[a_favor_now]

[Oh Dark Heart is amused. Someone's been making wishes.]

There's quite a variety of people here.

[Video]

[impure_tale]

Better accepted when I can see them, Monsieur.

[Audio] cuz he's a little bastard

[a_favor_now]

Accept it or don't. It's free country, as the saying goes.

Sort of.

[Video]

[impure_tale]

I would sooner meet you first, shy thing.

[Audio]

[a_favor_now]

I am not being shy.

[rhapsody_in]

If so, he's a libertine whom I haven't the pleasure of meeting. Something he has in common with you.

[impure_tale]

Then he's a poor fool, indeed, and I cannot see how I can age into such a person.

[rhapsody_in]

Wise of you. There's no sense in letting time slip away.

[impure_tale]

Much agreed, and what might I call the vision I see before me?

[rhapsody_in]

["Bleu" is either too abstract or too modern, depending on perspective, so she falls back on this body's assigned name and manages an indigo blush.] My name is Juliette, monsieur.

[thefuckup]

A libertine, huh?

[impure_tale]

Of the highest birth, which means little save that we tend to live longer.

[thefuckup]

So that means you're a, uh, hedonist, right?

[impure_tale]

Derived from the Greek word for "delight" or "pleasure."

I suppose it is fitting enough.

[forsaken_queen]

Light's sake, he's not a kinsman. He's you.

[impure_tale]

Impossible. [The ladies here are so interesting, he realizes.]

[forsaken_queen]

Very little is impossible here.

[impure_tale]

I have some impression of that, with what little I have seen.

Particularly of the people. I just put very little belief in the notion that I can stand in a place I will be and at the same time have already been -- at least not in this way.

[strangehistorian]

Well at least you're picking it up more quickly than some others! In all probability the others are right, but the explanation for how you've found yourself here is very complicated.

[impure_tale]

So I've noticed, cheri.