❄ october catch-all

[glaciare]

Who: jill warrick & ANY
When: the month of october
Where: castle thorne + horizon
What: the usual day to day nonsense
Warnings: none atm, will be edited if anything comes up

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oh my god i'm so sorry about how long this took

[glaciare]

Company is always welcome. ( For as reserved as Jill is, she would never turn anyone away. ) And... thank you. I know this place is only a pale imitation of it, but to know that it lives on in someone's memory--

( It truly means more than she can say. A small smile steals over her face, and she offers her hand for him to shake. It's what's commonly done here, she's learned. )

Jill Warrick. It's a pleasure, Doctor.

( There is no sign that his name is a title, or any strangeness around it (Doctor who?) owing to the fact that doctors aren't... a thing, for her. )

don't worry at all, it's all good!

[thedreamer]

[ It's one of the few times he's not been asked to explain Doctor since he's been here, and it's a delightful change of pace. Shaking her hand gently, yet firmly, he smiles all the same before letting go. ]

Very good to meet you, Jill Warrick. You're the first Jill I've met here, the first Jill Warrick I've known in the whole of the universe, in fact — and trust me, I've traveled enough that it's significant — so now all other Jills I meet hereafter will be measured by you. No pressure, or anything! But they would have quite a bit to live up to.

[ He teases gently, with a light smirk. ]

I'm glad you're not alone here. Well, you wouldn't be, with others of us Summoned, but I'm glad you have someone from home. Which faction did you end up in?

[glaciare]

( His excitement, and seeming genuine delight at meeting a perfect stranger, is almost infectious. Jill smiles slightly, ducking her head out of embarrassment. She's nothing special, even as the only Jill Warrick in the universe that he's familiar with.

The smile vanishes as he asks her what faction, however -- she knows what the others think of Thorne, and knows that her own thoughts are similar. )

Thorne. For ill or for better, though most likely for ill.

[thedreamer]

[ Going off of expressions both silent and outward, the Doctor is used to people not knowing what to make sometimes of his...enthusiasm at seemingly the smallest things, but he is genuinely always glad to meet someone new. Connections are important to him, particularly in a place like this.

Oh, yes. Thorne. Not that any of them belong in this world at all like they are, without their consent, but what he knows of Thorne, he's certainly glad he's not there at least. So he empathizes with the feeling she seems to have, if he's reading her expression correctly. ]

Tricky place, there, from what I know of it. Well, they all are, but especially Thorne. Is Clive there with you? Have you been okay there? In a certain...definition of 'okay,' obviously, given our circumstances.

[glaciare]

( Jill does not trust anyone in Thorne who isn't a Summoned. She's grateful for their use of magic, and has thrown herself fully into the study of it -- it takes no toll on her body, after all, and she still feels... useless without the full power of Shiva within her. So in that regard she has much to thank Thorne, but still--

There is a fear that the moment Thorne finds out what she can do. What Clive can do... they will be conscripted without second thought, forced to fight in wars once more. )

'Tricky' is a very good way to put it. I have much to be grateful for, not least the fact that Clive is there with me, and they've been most forthcoming with magic lessons. But it is hard not to feel that we are merely trapped in a gilt cage.

[thedreamer]

I understand the feeling. I don't trust any of them at all, not if they're complicit in anyone being brought here. I understand for some who've been Summoned here, this world is a vast improvement on their circumstances and I'm glad if that's true for them, but — no one had a choice in being brought here. People should always have a choice, and wherever they most want to be, it should always be safe for them.

[ That's all he would ever wish or want for anyone, and it's something he's committed to personally guaranteeing, the universe over. ]

Are you okay, all things considered, for the moment? Okay being...fluid.