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[It's been an eventful two days for a sailor stolen away by the Fair Folk. Styles is in an officer's quarters, even though it's all made of metal and glass. There are books on the shelf (at least one of them thoroughly indecent, and he can't read the others, so they've been stacked in the closet.

And he's found what he thinks is a shaving mirror, and it's propped up in the bathroom as he alternates looking at it and the very large glass(!) mirror in the unthinkably luxurious bathroom.

So there's a network feed of a man shaving, trimming up his whiskers, and humming tunelessly.]

[OOC: The British Navy being the spiritual predecessor of Fleet, and Austen's work being as friendly and knee deep in irony and politics as Jurisdiction, Stildyne is spending the Flood as a sailor named Josiah Styles, lately of HMS Laconia, under Captain Fred Wentworth. Then Napoleon abdicated and ruined what had been even for a seaman a pretty profitable war. Froggy bastard.]

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[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Is there any reason you think we wish to be audience to this?

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

[God's teeth the shaving mirror is possessed.

Styles throws it into the other room.

And comes out a minute later when he's got the foam rinsed off, and peers at it from a cautious distance.]

Are you a fairy queen, ma'am?

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Well. That was a bit of an overreaction. And yes, I am.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

Begging your pardon, ma'am, but shaving mirrors don't often talk back to me.

I don't mean to be rude, beg your Majesty's pardon, but where are we?

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

We are where we are. And wherever it is, it does seem to have a lot of mirrors.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

Was it the fair folk who spirited me here? It's a long way from home, Your Majesty.

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I certainly didn't do it, I've never seen you before.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

But who could spirit away a fairy? Beg your pardon, your Majesty, but I'd thought your folk had that job to themselves.

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Obviously, another fairy.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

More powerful than you, your Majesty? [He's leaning slightly out of frame as if he fears the suggestion is going to get him struck with a bolt of magic or turned into a fish or something.]

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Of course not! They merely took advantage of my inattention.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

So it isn't your land, this place?

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Of course not! My land is far more glorious than this.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

What sort of a fairy would this be, ma'am? That keeps a vessel like this.

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

The fairy need not keep it, they merely need to run across it and find some glee in spiriting people away to this place.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

My mam warned me not to make deals with the faeries, your Majesty, but if you can take me home I'll offer what an old sailor can, save for my own soul.

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Hm...[Considers this, then decides to just mess with him.] I will get you home within three days time. When I do this, I would like you to take all your clothes into the woods, light them on fire and dance before them. If you do not do this within three days time of returning home, you will be pulled back onto the Barge.

[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

Yes, ma'am.

[Josiah is from an age of sin eaters still. He considers that as long as a minister blesses him after he's likely to keep his soul, and that's what matters.

...which means if he were actually to remember his time aboard, he'd out and do it.]

Poor guy :P

[flashy-magic.livejournal.com]

Good.