Weekend Entertainment #1 - September Test Drive Meme

[havetubawilltravel]

It's way too hot to be September right now where I am, but we're verging on October right now, and that means it's an app_this_plz weekend, and you know you've got characters you want to try out.


H O W T O P L A Y:

-->Reply to this post with any character, new or old, you wish to app into Milliways.
-->Scan the post and respond to any characters you'd like to interact with.
-->Milliways members: feel free to respond with your applied characters or post them
--> Have fun! Post is open until Monday's DE and/or until the next Test Drive Meme!

Comments

[a_rare_benedictine]

"...I'm sorry, my dear, I'm going to sound very stupid. I know neither - phones nor cameras."

He's studying the screen with great interest, though.

[halfemptyglasses]

"Y-y-you don't have to call me dear," she goes with a nervous wave of her arms.

No one ever has before, after all. She adjusts her glasses and points out the apps on her device, starting with the one with the picture of an old-fashioned phone handset.

"Th-this is the phone part. A telephone. I click that, put in the number I want, and I can talk to other people who have telephones without us being in the same place."

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Fascinating." It's entirely sincere. "And you have found yourself as mysteriously in this place as I have?"

[halfemptyglasses]

"Y-yes! This was supposed to be the train station, but- but I don't know what this place is! It's so unpleasant!"

[a_rare_benedictine]

"It was also", he says dryly, "supposed to be my herbarium, in the year of our lord 1139. Perhaps we can find our feet together."

[halfemptyglasses]

".....1139? Y-you're not kidding, are you?!"

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Not in the slightest", he assures her. "Thus much you speak of isn't known to me - phones, cameras, train stations..."

[halfemptyglasses]

She swears, if she went back in time, that would be the most unpleasant.

"It... It was the year 2012 when I left?"

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Well, then." He looks around. "It seems best we learn the lie of the land, until we find our way home."

[halfemptyglasses]

She sighs a little.

"Y-you're right, sir," she agrees. And then, "Oh! Could... Could I still take a picture of your herbs?"

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Of course." He holds them up for a better view. "Are you interested in these things?"

[halfemptyglasses]

She clicks the camera app and snaps the picture.

"Oh yes. I write about plants all the time on my blog, and- and I keep bonsai."

She shows him the picture of the herbs.

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Wonderfully clear", he says, approving. "What is 'bonsai', may I ask?"

He'll write off 'blog' as one of those things he won't understand.

[halfemptyglasses]

"Oh, they're small trees kept indoors in pots. Here."

She swipes to show him some of the pictures of her bonsai.

[a_rare_benedictine]

"...trees in miniature." He leans in for a closer look. "I've never seen such a thing."

[halfemptyglasses]

She pulls the picture with her fingers, zooming in. "It's a very nice pastime. It's... It's probably not healing the same way your herbs are, but it.... It makes me feel less unpleasant."

[a_rare_benedictine]

"That is as much healing as any for the body", he says with a slight smile. "Though I'm sorry to hear you need it."

[halfemptyglasses]

She waves her hand again. "Oh that- you don't have to be..."

In all honesty, if he's really from the time he says he is, she's surprised the term witch hasn't come up yet.

[a_rare_benedictine]

He's a very enlightened monk, for the time, and he doesn't believe in witchcraft.

"It's rather what I do", he says gently.

[halfemptyglasses]

"Sir..." she quietly replies, unsure what to make of that.

She tucks her phone away in her cardigan pocket. And then she remembers her manners and bows.

"Ah, thank you for letting me take a picture of your herbs! Is- is it all right if I post it on my blog? I can put your name on it if you'd like the credit."

[a_rare_benedictine]

"No need for that", he says easily. "They're just herbs, like any other of their kind... but my name, since I haven't told you, is Brother Cadfael."

[halfemptyglasses]

"Brother Cadfael?" she repeats. "Ah, my name is Kuriyama."

[a_rare_benedictine]

"I'm very pleased to meet you, Kuriyama." He smiles.

[halfemptyglasses]

She holds her tongue from instinctively saying that was unpleasant, because he hasn't been unpleasant this entire time.

"Ah, I- I prefer Kuriyama-san. Or... Or I guess Miss Kuriyama? I'm guessing you aren't from Japan, and... and lack of title is... quite close."

[a_rare_benedictine]

"Forgive me", he says immediately. "I've heard of Japan, but never had occasion to... go there... Kuriyama-san."