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[a_time_slip]

Since we're on a little bi of a travel break, are you ready for more lessons?

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[lostinthefog]

[He jumps down and extends a hand to help Janie.]

It is. I can't even properly describe it, but there's ... more. It's dark right now, but I can see as well as if it were a bright day. And the stars ... I never knew there were so many of them, and so many different, subtle shades of color. I wish I could show you.

[a_time_slip]

[She hesitates, but accepts the help down.]

That- I think I understand. I wish I could see it like that, but I'll have to rely on your descriptions instead.

[lostinthefog]

[He just stands there, looking up into the foreign sky.]

They won't do it justice, because I don't think I have the proper words, or if they even exist ... but show me one star you like, and I'll try to describe what it looks like to me.

[a_time_slip]

[Janie looks at him for a moment, then back up at the sky]

Alright... What about that one? [She points to a very bright star]

[lostinthefog]

[Julian follows her gaze, and looks at the star for a moment before speaking in a quiet voice.]

It's huge and shimmering, bright white in its center but surrounded by a blueish, pulsating halo almost ten times its size. It looks solid, like a dancing shard of ice-cold glass on a glittering backdrop, while in truth it's quite the opposite.

[a_time_slip]

That sounds even more beautiful than I could imagine. Thank you.

[lostinthefog]

... it's not even close to what it really looks like, but I can't do it any better.

The sky looks so different here ... is this a star we could see back home, too?

[a_time_slip]

I... don't know. I can't work out where we are on the map.

[lostinthefog]

You don't? I thought this was one of our destinations.

[The news doesn't seem to bother him much, though.]

[a_time_slip]

It tends to find me... [She doesn't seem to mind either]

What does the moon look like?

[lostinthefog]

[Julian nods, accepting that answer. For once, he isn't worried about getting stuck.]

This one? It's different from ours, almost familiar, but not quite. Misty, changing, perhaps it has an atmosphere of its own. A shiny marble, speckled with gold. And the sky around it seems brighter, more blue than black. It's … like a little sun, illuminating everything around it. I can almost feel its light.

[Which is why he can't look at it for too long, unfortunately.]

[a_time_slip]

...Everything sounds magical when you say it.

I um. Wish I could see it. Sometimes I can see time, but that doesn't happen very often.

[lostinthefog]

[He smiles a little shyly, trying not to show too obviously how pleased he is that Janie liked his description.]

Time? … I can't even imagine that. What does time look like?

[a_time_slip]

Um... The edges are fuzzy. [She sighs, because it took her several moments to come up with that] It's easy with things that don't change a lot, but otherwise it's confusing and I have to concentrate.

[lostinthefog]

[He tries hard to imagine.] The fuzzy edges I can imagine, I guess. But the things which change ... so you see these changes?

[a_time_slip]

Yes... like ghosts? Some people are different too... almost a suntan but not the same. I'm not good with words the same way that you are.

[lostinthefog]

Oh … it just seems as if it were incredibly much harder to describe, defying words. Can you … see it in any person?

[a_time_slip]

It is hard to describe... what I said is the only way I can put it. I can see it in everyone.

[lostinthefog]

That must be … very confusing.

[He blushes a tiny bit and looks away, wondering what she might see in and of him.]

[a_time_slip]

It is, sometimes. I can usually focus.

You're... easy to see.

[lostinthefog]

[Julian looks up again, not having expected that.]

Am I? How?

[a_time_slip]

Because I can see you, and not... everything else. There aren't a million ghosts and you are nice. I'm bad with words, did I tell you that?

[lostinthefog]

You're great. [He answers smiling, and somewhat relieved.]

I wouldn't want to have a million ghosts around me. I guess there are a few, but ... well. Glad not to be difficult to look at for you.

[a_time_slip]

[Janie smiles a bit] It wasn't always like that, but... after what happened at the school, I got a little more powerful, and every year since I've been able to do more and more.

...Not that you want to hear that. Um. How's your life?

[lostinthefog]

It's ... better now. All of this, the job, the traveling with you, it. Uhm. It makes getting along with myself easier. Thank you for that.

Do you keep getting more powerful? [Seems he in fact does want to hear it.]