Subject: The Inner-Space Warp: Ch.7 Going Back
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Posted on: 2015-10-07 15:03:00 UTC

AN: Ity's been ages since we heard from SWIFT, so let's see what theyve been doing. As usual, the PPC is own by Kay and Echinacea who carted it.

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It always felt strange returning to Luggnagg. This was where Paslee had been born and raised, and where one day she would be rejected and declared an unperson.

One day, she thought bitterly to herself, one day ecxatcly 43 years, seven months and sixten days from nopw.

She was still less than halfway through her official lifespan, but she knew the day woud come. Plenty of time to propare for it.

She tried to clear her head of such thoughts as she entred The Spot. Septannus Batraic was waiting for her one of the tables.

"Ms. Torhan," he said. "I alreasy ordered something for you. Hope you don't mind." He gestured to a neat double whisky on the table.

"Thanks." She sat down, drank the whisky in one go, and signalled to the barman for another one.

"Are you sure you should be doing that?" asked Batraic. "I know it won't kill you, but won't you still fell the pain if your liver gets damaged."

"Maybe, but it'll still make me feel alive." She raised a hand to her hair, and lifted the bangs revaling the red spot above her left eyebrow. "Look at it. You would't think that it means I'll have to spend eterinity forever aging, never dying. What did that English poet say? 'Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.' Except I won't be able to 'end this strange eventful history'."

"French poet, surelt. 'Sans' isn't an English word."

"Maybe. What's it matter?" She let her long bangs fall back into place, and turned her attention to the drink the barman had nbrought her.

Batraic had heard Paslee angst about being a struldbrug before, and knew how to bring her out of it. "At least your're making themost of your facilities while you've till got them. Living life to the full, like you're doing with SWIFT"

"Yeah. Gotta take life's pleasures while I can still enjoy them. And I've always enjoyed slash fics.|" She paused then added, "My mother used top write it too. Bergerford slash for fanzines."

"Bergerford?"

"Jim Bergerac/Charlie Hungerford. The most slashable couple the BBC ever created."

"What, more than John and Sherlock?"

"Oh yes. Even more than Blake and Avon."

"Who?"

"You youngsters don't know anything." She smiled. "Guess I'll have tpo get used to saying that a lot in future."

"As long as you can say it, you know you're doing fine."

"Yeah. WHat about you. Why did you get involved with SWIFT?"

He stroked a thumb along his beard. "Notthing fancy. It's just that me and my boyfirend find the sex is better when a slash wraiths involvwd. No need to worry about hygiene, lubrication, or any of those unsexy things."

"There's the risk of MPreg."

"Yeah, but's not a problem. We wouldn't even have the chance pf our own kid normally. I mean, really our own, not adopted." He pasued, then risked changing the subject. "Look, are you sure you re comfotable recruiting people from here? You wouldn't rather stick to the other continuums?

"No, this is fine. It's where it all started for me, so it kinda makes sense." She drank more whisy, just a sip this time. "So any luck finding new people?"

"I've got a list of a few potentials. One not far from here in fact. We can check her out now if you like."

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