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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[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.

[forsaken_queen]

It's not a question of will be or has been, but of what is. You haven't traveled through time, you're the same person. This is just magical turning you younger temporarily.

[impure_tale]

Madame, I believe I would know if I were older.

[forsaken_queen]

Not if your memories were made just as young.

[impure_tale]

What you are describing is not possible, and I am not interested in debating the matter further.

[forsaken_queen]

[She could argue, easily. But why bother? Time would prove her right anyway.]

Fine. As you like.