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

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Well, no one was exactly specific, and I don't really believe in "other worlds."

[Another huff.]

I'm still of the opinion that this is all some elaborate dream, and any moment I'm going to wake up and I'll be back in Egypt.

[Then she looks at him curiously.]

...are you using the Royal "We"?

[gotyourhair.livejournal.com]

This person is in another world at this time.

Then this woman is being a fool, but as she is apparently from Eden, she cannot be expected to be aware of other worlds.

We are the emperor, of course we would.

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Eden?

[Hold on just one moment!]

Look here, my brother may call me Evie, but I'm not from Eden, and I'm certainly not a fool.

[If only the Bembridge Scholars could see that.]

[gotyourhair.livejournal.com]

We believe that you people call it 'Earth' because you are ignorant and unaware of other 'Earths'. Eden is the world in darkness that does not know of other worlds.

[Bah, he laughs at your scholars, laughs!]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

[Her cheeks color at the insult. Fluster her, will you? She won't stand for this.]

Well, I believe that you're a man with a very high opinion of himself - one that probably isn't even deserved.

[Folding her arms across her chest, Evelyn frowns.]

And I'll thank you not to degrade the place where I live, no matter where you might come from. It certainly isn't any better than Earth if the residents from your world possess such an inflated sense of self-worth.

[gotyourhair.livejournal.com]

We are the emperor and immortal, any opinion we might have of ourself if fully deserved.

Geo is certainly better than a primitive backwater that thinks it is the only Earth.

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

[Immortality? Evelyn resists the urge to ask more about that, her curiosity overridden by anger at the sheer nerve of this so-called "Emperor".]

You are arrogant and rude, and I daresay I've had about enough of you.

[gotyourhair.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your delusions, you may speak to us again when you realize you are not dreaming and that you have been a fool for thinking so.

[He makes a dismissive gesture with his hand]