audio | un: wisdom | wedding day three

[mashiara]

Right, so this happened. Again. In case the lot of you who get the whole feast for a third time also see the bride go missing, a heads up:

The conductor can track any ticket or numbered staff member on board. Any. The man needs help beyond anything I have the time or ability to give, but he's far from the worst when it comes to devotions to the train. The staff serves it tea every morning. Before any of you are up. We don't all sleep, do you know? I haven't slept since I got on board.

Either way, see about asking him where she's going if she disappears again tonight.

And if any of the staff tell you about being kind to the train, praying to the train, polishing the train for the train, don't laugh where they can hear you. The chamber maids cry about it later. How misunderstood, they say, the train is. How unenlightened the ticket bearers, to not understand the train's benevolence. If I have to hear that one more time I'll scream.

Comments

(voice)

[beitangmoran]

I have not met him in person so far, but this is interesting.

Such technology as it is does not exist where I am from, but we do have some machinery and in general, no, it is not sentient. Nor revered by its user.

[mashiara]

Huh.

( only a momentary pause, before: )

So they're all a little more loose in the head than I guessed. Here I was trying to be generous.

[beitangmoran]

I do think it's unusual behavior, yes.

I wish I could have the chance of not sleeping. This has been very inconvenient.

[mashiara]

Regular rest of important for all thinking people, you're just getting forced to take enough of it on someone else's schedule.

( a pause before her grudging agreement: )

I... also dislike anyone trying to force my habits to fit their pattern.

[beitangmoran]

Exactly. I do not require much sleep usually and it's easier to get quiet time at night sot this has been... annoying.

[mashiara]

( a long sigh out through her nose. )

This journey is supposed to end soon, isn't it?

[beitangmoran]

Well, given how time is working these days, how soon do you think 'soon' is?

[mashiara]

Time is working perfectly fine! People having memory issues isn't the same thing as time going backward, nothing outside is repeating itself, just people here forgetting to day. Twice.

( she's here sounding Stubborn about this because everything's weird enough, do not add TIME TRAVEL into this thank you, the wheel need only spin back around not have moments of turning backward )

[beitangmoran]

Which is all well and good, but no one else but us knows that.

Besides, we had seen time be messed up before so it was not an altogether out there assumption.

[mashiara]

... You what.

[beitangmoran]

We visited a land where time and life and death themselves wee altered, distorted.

[mashiara]

Life and death have been distorted in all this world by the sounds of it, but time? In what way was it distorted? Moving too slow? Too fast? Backward?

[beitangmoran]

It seemed to be going too fast. And cycling. Animals would live, die, decay and then jump back to life in a matter of hours.