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A Misunderstanding [attn: Grace, Patience, Lena]
#1
[I'm going to leave Lena's current state up to you, Sam. If you want to have her involved in this, feel free to respond. If not, we can either say she's still unconscious or that she woke up and is just being really quiet/withdrawn. Just let us know what you'd like to do.]

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When the mages came to, they were in what appeared to be some kind of locked cell. The room itself was dome-shaped, with the curved back wall being carved from some kind of hardwood, and a flat plate of glass-like material in front. (Like they were on display in some museum.) Despite the unfortunate nature of their accommodations, there were comfortable beds beneath them. Soft, cushioned hammocks that folded out from the wall. The pillows smelled like some kind of wildflower, and if any of the women thought to lay their head into it after waking, they'd find that the scent lessened the pain of their headaches.

There were also chairs and a small wooden table in the cell. And upon waking, the women would find a pitcher of water and three glasses waiting for them. The water was fresh, and it smelled faintly herbacious (infused with some plant, no doubt.) Beside the water, there was a bowl of fruit (some of which they would be familiar with from the forest) and shelled nuts. If any of them wished to splash a bit of water on their faces, a carved basin at one edge of the wall looked as though it might be some kind of sink.

There were certainly worse kinds of cells to end up in. But the fact remained that they were still prisoners - for the moment.

It wasn't long after they woke when one of the guards - the older woman with streaks of silver in her dark hair - walked over to check on them. On her side of the glass, there were a couple of chairs and a small table with what looked to be a set of some kind of playing cards. (Perhaps the guards had been keeping themselves occupied while their prisoners slept.) Above the table, a large window looked out at the surrounding trees and the village below.

"How are you feeling?" She asked. "There's water if you need it. It'll clear the headache."
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Grace has already figured out that something in the food or drink helped with the headache, because the older woman will find her wolfing down fruit and nuts in between gulps of water. Despite having had more success with food since entering the forest, the three have been traveling hard and not all of those days of walking have ended with a meal.

She pauses mid-bite when the woman arrives, and in a rare show of remembering her manners, actually swallows first before speaking.

"Surprisingly well for having been knocked out and thrown in prison. I suppose this could be your way of saying hello, in which case," Grace says, and raises a hand to give the woman a sarcasm-laden regal wave.

"It's nice here," she says, her hand hanging in the air, somewhat forgotten, as she scans the borders of their cell. "The nicest jail I have ever seen. A very nice village. And the way you incapacitated us? The epitome of nice. Not good or bad, really. Just nice."

What's next? Some exceedingly humane torture? An execution where they're all painlessly put to sleep, having pleasant dreams until the end?

"I feel like I should thank you for the restful sleep and generous accommodations if it weren't for this wall," she says, and one could probably tell that she wanted to insert a 'fucking' in there somewhere, but she's trying to be diplomatic.
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The woman didn't respond immediately to Grace's veiled accusations. Instead she glanced at the picked-through bowl of food and said, "You look hungry. I'll get you something more substantial." For a moment her grey eyes took in the state of the prisoners. There was something about the woman that felt... not cold, precisely, but wary. She didn't trust them.

"Would you prefer that we beat you? Leave you in a cramped cell with no food or water? Treat you as though you are less than human? Because that's what your people are doing to Atreyu right now."

The woman looked as though she wanted to say more, but she didn't. Perhaps it wasn't her place to. And a moment later the door to the room opened and two more women walked in. One of them, Lita, would be familiar to the prisoners. The other was a dark-skinned woman in her fifties wearing a soft white embroidered dress. An intricate tattoo coiled up over her neck and half of her face: swirling silver lines that shimmered faintly when the light touched her skin.

"I see you're awake." The older woman pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the glass-like panel. "My name is Olga Brynn. I'm the Councilwoman here. And I would very much like to know how you came to arrive at our village, and what it is you plan on doing here."
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They come too, and Patience sighs as she finds her and her comrades trapped in a cell. Probably the nicest cell she had ever occupied but a cell none the less. She took a moment, long and slow to examine the contents of the room before rising from the bed to partake of the food which Grace was currently devouring and smiled as she too found her headache abating.

When the guard approaches however she reacts with little of the anger of her companion. But then this is not Patience's first time being incarcerated, nor is it the first time for being wrongly incarcerated and despite what some might say, there really was a difference there.

"Grace." She said simply, placing her hand upon the other woman's shoulder as if to calm her. "Such verbal based distortion and noise generation is while concurrently understandable, is not pre-eminently effective at this temporal and geographical juncture." She said offering the woman a reassuring smile before she turned to the glass once more.

It was then that the elderly woman, who in short order reveals herself to be the council woman they were supposed to meet with arrives and begins questioning them. To this Patience tilts her head listening, before shaking her head.

"Our movation to this relativistic geographical and planar locality was induced by trans-dimensional sublimation and translation, from that localized event our arrival in this precise idio-geographic habitat and commerce center was finalized by way of ambluative movation for period of seven solar cycles by this planetary bodies primary orbit and reckoning. Our specific point of origin and translation to your prime plane of relativistic existence was gestated in the decisive center of an ongoing ideo-political-paradigymic aggressive state of nullification of which we enacted no direct or indirect part."

She paused briefly, hoping the words made it across the barrier of understanding before going on. "Our direct and personal plan, be it in primary, secondary, or tertiary regards was resupply of consumables as well as data points and geographical reference data, upon which further movation towards relativistic north to actualize and free the afformentioned individualized personage known to you as Atreyu."
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Lena has been quiet since she woke up. It's not that she's cowering in the corner acting like she's gone into a catatonic state or anything. She's awake and conscious, and alert to boot. She had taken the time to eat and was remaining calm in the corner, awaiting the arrival of someone. She had a very good idea what was going on here, after all; it wasn't hard to figure out that they were not from here and as she'd thought just before their capture, there is no time more xenophobic than that of war. It made sense that they were assumed as being on the other side of this, and so they had to at least wait and try to explain.

She lets Grace and Patience speak to women who arrive first, studying their captors more than anything else. Lena knows they're not going to fight their way out of here. They're going to have to make then see reason, and when Olga Brynn and Lita come in she lifts her head. Maybe this is their chance. She doesn't begrudge Grace her resentment of the others; its firmly consistent behavior, and many people would feel the same way of their captors after all.

"The people who have Atreyu are not our people. We're not of either side in this conflict, because we're not from here. And by 'here,' I mean this entire world. Long story short, we appeared in the middle of the air and fell on the back of the dragon Atreyu was riding. And then we fell off. We don't know why this conflict is going on, and we're not on their side. Our only goal is to try and find our friends who may be here as well, and then leave. To leave, we need Atreyu. And as such, we would love to be able to rescue her. And that's the truth."
"The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."
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Patience's hand on her shoulder doesn't calm. There is nothing calming about being touched out of the blue. She jumps noticeably, and puts fingers to her eyes to rub them as she forces herself to relax again. She smiles back at Patience. It's not her fault. Discomfort comes with the territory that is Grace, even though this new body doesn't tingle with pins and needles nearly as much.

"Okay, okay, I'll shut up," she says, but it's in a joking tone of voice. Patience is right. Probably not the best idea to get these people all riled up.

She listens as the others speak, as they lay out the truth. We're not from this world, but we're not from your earth either. It seems like such a bad idea to go for broke and just tell them everything. Like, what would the Denver PD suspect if the three of them were stuck in a drunk tank and telling everybody they came from another universe? Probably weed. Okay, so plan B is to claim that they all ate some magic berries out there in the forest, and man is that some good shit you ought to try...

"We're not from this entire universe," Grace says. "We're from earth, yes, but when we were born, earth was the only planet a human could have come from. I get that that's a bad thing as far as your people are concerned, but we really didn't have much of a choice in the matter."
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Each of the prisoners took their turn speaking. Each relayed as best they could the truth of their intentions. And while they spoke, their captors listened with varying degrees of interest and suspicion. Lita frowned softly, disbelieving and confused. The woman who'd been acting as guard simply stared them down, the way a hunter might stare down their prey. Cool, calculating. Olga, however... she pressed her hand to the glass and looked at them as though she were trying to assemble the pieces of a puzzle in her mind. Her dark eyes moved from face to face, resting on each of them for a prolonged stretch of silence. It was hard to look away from her. Something about the depth of her eyes (how easy it was to fall into them.)

"This is a waste of time," the as-yet unnamed guard said. Lita glanced at her, then at the prisoners.

"If they meant to infiltrate us, why would they tell this kind of story? Why would they admit to being from Earth? All it does is make them look suspicious."

"Because they want us to think they're crazy," the other woman responded. "Or they're just fucking with us. Either way, waste of time."

Olga raised her hand to silence them. "They're telling the truth. At least, they believe they are." She stood up from the chair and turned to face the other women. The unnamed guard sighed, but Lita's expression changed from one of confusion to hesitant sympathy.

"Do you think maybe the Company messed with their heads?"

"Even if they did," the guard offered, "there's obviously some kind of plot here. We have to keep them in the cell until we know more."

"I'll take that under advisement, Hestor. But I believe this is an issue for the Council. You can say your piece and have your vote there." Olga glanced back at the prisoners. "In the meantime, get them some clean clothes and proper food." Before she left, she added, "You'll have a decision before the night is up."

Once Olga had left, Lita walked up to the glass and said, "I'm sorry we had to do this." Then she pointed toward a spot on the wall where a seam in the wood and a small metal device marked a probable door. "There's a shower in the bathroom, if you need it."

(And let's face it, they all did.)

After that, Lita left to fetch them some clothes while Hestor called down for someone to bring food. She left the room, but a keen ear might be able to hear the sound of her boots pacing back and forth on the balcony outside.
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[Sadly I'm going to have to wrap this scene up, since we've got a live scene to do tonight. But you guys are welcome to still respond if you'd like to. This is just the only chance I have to write anything before this evening so I wanted to get it done while I could.]

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It wasn't long before a man appeared bearing trays of more substantial food. When he arrived, Hestor came back inside and pressed something on the wall that made the glass panel slide upward. Whatever form of nonviolent weapon they'd used to pacify the prisoners earlier, she still wore it strapped around her wrist, and upon opening the door it was held at the ready (in case any of them thought to try and escape.) Of course, if Grace, Lena or Patience wanted to be free of their cell, they had other skills at their disposal besides speed and brute force. But these people didn't know that.

The man set the food down on the table and left. Moments later, Lita arrived with more clothes and placed them neatly on one of the chairs. After that, the panel was lowered and another guard came to take over for Hestor while the two women left - presumably to attend the Council meeting that Olga had mentioned. The new guard was a younger blond woman, and she gave the prisoners a curious look before walking back out to the balcony to give them some privacy.

The food both looked and smelled delicious. Some kind of roasted game hen with root vegetables, herbs and dried fruit. The prisoners would have the rest of the night to eat their fill and get cleaned up, if they chose. Presumably at some point they managed to get some sleep - if sleep was a thing they wished to get. (After their journey, they'd be in sore need of proper rest.)

In the morning, Olga came to visit them again. She had Lita with her, and the two of them communicated in quiet tones with the blond guard outside. When they entered the room, the guard opened the cell, and Olga smiled and held out her hand.

"Welcome to Winter's Edge."
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