MM: taking Cal on the Baba Yaga
Feb. 16th, 2009 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Outside, it is raining. Hard. Not impossible to walk through, but the kind of weather where you'd get drenched within a couple of minutes unless you had the right clothes. They are obviously in a city, and a major one at that; although Cormond is built on the salt-flats, overpopulation has meant that people build up, and given one side of the street has no buildings, there is a wide view of the rest of the city. It looks not unlike an Earth city, at least from a distance.
The buildings themselves are built in a style that is both functional and stark at the same time as being organic, and there is a science-fiction feel thanks to the airspeeders and the aliens (some rather obviously alien) mixed in with the humans.
"The port is just at the other end of the street," Esfir explains as they stand under the eaves.
The buildings themselves are built in a style that is both functional and stark at the same time as being organic, and there is a science-fiction feel thanks to the airspeeders and the aliens (some rather obviously alien) mixed in with the humans.
"The port is just at the other end of the street," Esfir explains as they stand under the eaves.
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:36 am (UTC)He blinks over at her. There are absolutely no words, but he doesn't need them because it's written all over his face.
And, no doubt, because Esfir, with her joy in flying, feels it even more strongly.
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:47 am (UTC)And there is nothing like seeing it for the first time.
So, she smiles at him, and guides them in the direction of the the hyperspace-path (although, really, more of a highway, given the traffic).
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:58 am (UTC)Beat.
"So remember to breathe, my friend."
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:00 am (UTC). . . it may not look as though that registered, but it did. Mostly.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:12 am (UTC)But the jump - and it is a jump that presses force against them during it - and the way the stars stretch out just before it never fails to effect her.
Everything stretches, and then a brief hurtlejump later, they are in the swirling blue of the hyperspace-tunnel.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-17 06:20 am (UTC)"Welcome to hyperspace."
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:23 am (UTC)After another moment, he finally finds his voice again.
"Wow."
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:24 am (UTC)"Sometimes, I just...sit here and watch it. More times than I'd like to admit, maybe."
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:26 am (UTC)"I won't tell."
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:28 am (UTC)Beat.
"I'll check on Antosha, and come back."
Which she does need to do, but also gives time Cal to watch the show.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:30 am (UTC)"Okay."
And he has turned his full attention back to the hyperspace display before she's even on the ladder.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:32 am (UTC)Antony is nearly asleep, she leaves him with a kiss on his forehead and goes back up to the cockpit.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:42 am (UTC)"How's he doing?"
Because there are priorities.
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:43 am (UTC)You see this smile?
She isn't aware of this smile.
(and oh, does she love her son)
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:53 am (UTC)He misses wearing that smile. Even the beauty of hyperspace can't stop the sudden tug of loss. He smiles his own smile back at Esfir, though, saying,
"Good. He's a great kid, Fira."
(Someday he'll have that smile again.)
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:33 am (UTC)"You should have seen your face when you saw him."
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:41 am (UTC)He's laughing a little as he says it, though.
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:47 am (UTC)Pause.
"Still. You were that surprised?"
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:51 am (UTC)"Well, yeah. You've never said anything about kids. I didn't know you wanted any."
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Date: 2009-02-18 02:10 am (UTC)He'll figure out that it's not the random subject change it seems. Give him a minute.
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