OPEN: New Beginnings In Stranger Places

[promnibusanctis]

Who: Dr. Helen Magnus and [You]
When:  Day 92
Where: Roaming around, a little lost 
What: Arrival, getting her bearings, etc. etc.

Adventure was something Helen Magnus never shied from and exploring the vastness of the underground Sanctuary, far beyond those walls was something she couldn't deny herself.  So it was that she found herself here, under contract to the Ringmaster with her eyes wide with wonder at it all.  The lights and colours, the excitement, the darker elements shining through here and there.  It was as familiar as it was alien and she drank it in with an eagerness she had long felt lacking.  It stirred her as she moved through tents, passed people much like her who had joined perhaps years before her.  A bright flash of a tail there, wings, glowing skin, all of these people becoming Abnormals or were in the beginning.  The sheer fascination would have been enough, really.

 

"Excuse me?" she asked, reaching out to catch the attention of one of the people she had fallen into step with, "I seem to have found myself a bit lost.  I was looking for the medical tent and I seem to have completely gotten myself turned around.  If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be most grateful."

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[promnibusanctis]

"I liked them well enough before, I suppose," Helen said thoughtfully, "but I can see I like them a great deal more now, yes. Now, my friend Nikola, he really likes birds."

[stillwinningthehardway]

"It could be a change? Seems early, and I've never heard of one like that." Scout shrugs. "Or it could just be a fancy and it'll pass. I guess if it doesn't bother you it's no big deal. But you should track down Joker, he has feathered wings."

[promnibusanctis]

"I suppose it could be a fancy," Helen said with a soft laugh, "and I also suppose I could just be missing home, really."

Or a particular person at home. One she's definitely not thinking about for all the complexities that arise from it.

"I run a Sanctuary back in my universe that aids in the protection of creatures we call Abnormals. I suppose one might say your bird would be one such creature. They are all sizes, compositions, the strange, unusual, or deceptively ordinary. I help keep the peace between the Human and abnormal worlds, along with the help of many other Sanctuaries across my world," Helen murmurs.

"It would stand to say that even with this fascinating vacation, I miss the aspect of discovery, though it is essentially being substituted, here, with another kind of discovery."

She laughed quietly and shook her head ruefully.

"I'll definitely see about finding Joker," she said, nodding. "I do imagine that must be fascinating."

[stillwinningthehardway]

Homesickness does tend to come in stages. Scout shrugs.

"Where she's from, she's pretty normal. You're going to see a lot of that kind of thing here. Normal's all subjective and relative. It's good you're flexible, though! Weird things happen here."

"You mean discovering what things are like at home?"

[promnibusanctis]

Helen nodded pensively.

"Here, actually. I suppose each day is rife with the opportunity to discover something new. Magic especially intrigues me."