Camp AU Event

[maleborgia]

[Very late in the week of the AU event, (college!)Cesare has gone in search of (future!)Alvis. Some of the novelty of this strange zombie summer camp has worn off but he remembers her vanship and just how exhilarating that was. Besides, she is company who isn't a) his actual professor or b) his not actual(?) brother. It's a nice clear day. A day for adventure.]

Alvis! You don't have plans, do you? [hope you are okay with this kid confidently inserting himself into them]

Comments

[maleborgia]

I know it is a cliche, but you do only live once. Why should we hold ourselves back? If I fail I want to know it was on my own merit, not because I was too afraid to try at all.

[keytoexilellence]

...That's true. I like that. It's very brave of you.

[maleborgia]

[grinning a little broader]

All games aside, tell me more about where you are from. You know a little of my world but I know next to nothing of yours.

[keytoexilellence]

[Club thumping music is turned down a little so she can think and Alvis releases his hand to instead take his elbow]

It's very beautiful -- I love it with my whole heart. My family has a big farm where they grow wheat and other vegetables, living quietly. There's a large body of water nearby called the Grand Lake and it's very important to all of the countries it borders. Whenever I get the chance, I like to go home and lie out in the wheat on the hills overlooking the lake because it reminds me exactly of my dreams when I was a little girl, before we lived there.

The cities in my country are very young but some of the surrounding countries are older than even records show. Ades and Turan are very beautiful and have incredible architecture and such green countrysides. Glacies is completely frozen but they have wonderful hotsprings. Hmm... what else...

[maleborgia]

[walking a little slower since she has his arm, wanting to make it easy for her to continue to hold it]

The Grand Lake? If our maps overlap like you say, then I wonder if that is the Meriterranean. In Latin the name means "in the middle of the land" because of its prominent location and importance to the peoples surrounding it, just like you describe.

[keytoexilellence]

Mmn, it is landlocked... It's very interesting that we would have the same geographical areas but different names.

[maleborgia]

That is interesting. I wonder why that is... I don't know of any frozen areas around the sea, though. Where is Glacies?

[keytoexilellence]

Across the lake and to the north-west.

[maleborgia]

North-west... The south-east? Northern Africa?

[keytoexilellence]

[A puzzled look? And they WILL eventually arrive at the hangar. Just as she said, her vanship is parked outside the building]

Glacies is in the north-west for me. We can sit down later and look at maps, if you'd like?

[maleborgia]

Every time you take my phone to look at a map you turn it upside down. If your home is where you say it is and your coordinates are correct, then Glacies must be somewhere over Egypt. It's largely a desert country, save for the area near the Nile, and there is certainly no snow and ice. I would be very interested in looking over a map with you later--it seems that there are just as many differences as similarities here.

[keytoexilellence]

I do...? I wonder... Maybe I was mistaken.

[maleborgia]

Let's sit down later and figure it out. I believe we have a more pressing task before us right now.

[keytoexilellence]

Flying adventures first, studies second!

...Flying adventures first, food second, studies third.

[maleborgia]

That sounds like a plan. [leaving her side to stand at the back of the vanship, motions towards the pilot's seat] After you.

[keytoexilellence]

[Climbing up! When he's seated, she'll hand him back a flying cap and goggles]

Should we have some fun this time?

[maleborgia]

[laughs] Are you telling me that last time was all business? [putting the cap and goggles on] I'm ready for anything.

[keytoexilellence]

Mmn! I can't have you thinking THAT was stunt flying!

[Time for her to show off where SHE'S confident. Up, up, and away... Hope you don't get air sick because they're going to be zipping about Camp doint tight turns, rolls, and of course the Immelman Turn~]

[maleborgia]

[not even close! Delighted laughter as she puts the vanship through its paces, relishing the feel of the speed. In any incarnation Cesare tends towards adrenaline junkie.]

[keytoexilellence]

[Dodging trees and they pop out over the cliff. She angles the nose of the vanship down, into a dive, grinning widely]

[maleborgia]

Ah--! [shout of laughter, leaning forward and grabbing the back of her seat with one hand and her shoulder with the other]

[keytoexilellence]

[Pulling up a little earlier than she would if she was flying solo... No desire to whiplash or eject the poor guy.]

[maleborgia]

[squeezing her shoulder]

Do that again!

[keytoexilellence]

[Laughing happily and she takes them a mile or so out to sea before turning the vanship around]

Reeeeady?

[Full speed back towards the cliff f ace]

[maleborgia]

Re-- [the word is snatched out of his mouth once they start to speed back to the cliffs]