It Had to Be You, Log 1/??? [Audio]

[libraritology]

Hello?

[The audio crackles, buzzes into the correct tuning, and there's the click of a dial. A distinctive, very proper, English voice speaks over the comm unit. At least she's familiar with radio enough to manage this much.]

Is anyone there? This is...my name is Evelyn Carnahan, and this is not Cairo or Hamunaptra.

[A pause.]

I don't know where I am, and I was right in the middle of something very important, and this is exceedingly inconvenient. If someone could-

[Rustling noises.]

-if someone could please tell me what's going on, I need to find my brother, Jonathan, and our guide, Rick, as I was in the midst of an expedition, thank you, I'm in...I think it's a foyer.



...anyone?

[For those interested in seeing Evelyn in person, seeing as the last thing she can remember was falling into a river off of a boat, she's wearing a soaking wet nightgown. This. This will not stand. This is scandalous.]

Comments

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

Not at all. Shall we?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, please!

[She gestures that he lead the way, and then falls into step.]

Where are you from, Mr. Meltzer? America, I presume, but my knowledge of Americans is rather limited.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

I grew up in New York City. Yourself?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

New York City...

[She mulls over this fascinating bit of information before contributing:]

I was born in London, though we moved back and forth between England and Egypt, even when I was very young.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

You mentioned Cairo?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

I did, it's where I've been working for the past year or so. The Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

Is that your specialty?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Mostly the ancient texts, but yes. I can read both ancient Egyptian and hieratic...not that this will be of much use here.

[She looks a little crestfallen.]

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

You never know. Really.

[And here are the big double doors of the library~]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

[If Evelyn got to use her skills, it might just make her day. Pushing open one of the doors to the library, she steps inside and stares.]

...o-oh...my.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

[Yeah. Pretty much that.]

I'm going to go grab a book for you. Take your time looking around.

[And he makes himself scarce. Evelyn clearly needs to have a private moment with the library.]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Yes, that...would be lovely...

[This is massive. Bigger than massive. Mammoth. The library at the museum is absolutely nothing compared to this. She moves through the aisles slowly. Every row, every shelf, towers above her.

This might be enough to help Evelyn forget that she was supposed to be in Beni Suef, just off the Nile, right now.]

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

[After what he guesses to be a sufficient period of amazed staring time, Mark goes looking for Evelyn with a copy of The Book of the Damned. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_book_of_the_damned)]

Miss Carnahan?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Hm?

[She turns, spotting Mark down one of the aisles.]

Over here, Mr. Meltzer.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

[He heads over and offers the book.]

Here. It's a pretty thorough introduction to unexplained phenomena. Nothing in it matches up with Wonderland, but it might help a little.

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Anomalistics, then?

[She accepts the book and flips through it speculatively.]

Is this your field of study, Mr. Meltzer?

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

Yes, more or less.

[And it's really nice to not be given the side-eye for it. Score one, Evelyn.]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

[She glances up from the book questioningly.]

What do you do, then?

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

It's what I did. But I've been caught up in something else for almost two years, now.

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

What sort of thing have you been doing for that long, Mr. Meltzer?

[Innocent curiosity, at worst.]

All the daughter scenes with you right now

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

I've been looking for my daughter.

[It's no big secret, and it was either that or "looking for an underwater city." And that never goes over well.]

ALL OF THEM

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

...oh.

[Oh, that's- That's definitely not something she wants to press.]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

It's all right. What was that other place you mentioned? Hamunaptra?

[He speaks a little too fast, and mangles the pronunciation a bit as a result.]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

O-Oh, yes, Hamunaptra.

[Interesting non-sequitur, but one she's willing to take, regardless.]

The City of the Dead. It's where my expedition was headed.

[paper-knight.livejournal.com]

[Awkwardness: dodged. Research opportunity: gained.]

Were you searching for anything in particular?