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[bothfoulandfair]

I froze to death, while the ship stopped in port. [And - perhaps understandably - she doesn't look too happy about it.

She's not in the infirmary anymore though. She'd stayed until the residual cold was bearable, and had waited until she felt completely back to normal before trying to address the Barge and ask the questions she's been sitting on since she wound up in the infirmary.]

How often does that happen? Why didn't anyone tell me that could happen?

[She's trying to hold it together, present herself as the calm, cool and collected future queen she's been trying to be for the last three years, but people can probably see the cracks in her veneer because this is all just... beyond crazy.]

[Private to Arthas]

You tried to save me. [She remembers that much, even though parts of the end are a little blurry.

And she wants to know why. :|]

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[enchangement]

Never been anyone else.

[ River isn't sure she would like it in any case, not without some warning but what good would warning be? ]

Do you like you now?

[bothfoulandfair]

That's... a complicated question.

[And since coming here, she's liked herself less and less.]

[enchangement]

[ It is, in River's opinion, only complicated when the answer is 'no'. ]

She's River. You're Elsa.

[bothfoulandfair]

[Then the answer is basically no. u__u]

It's nice to meet you, River.

[enchangement]

Nice to meet you too.

Death happens. [ Not that Elsa was worried about death much, but it still perhaps should be said. ] Different minds happen. People who have been here a long time remember and think on them like distant dreams from childhoods long past.

[bothfoulandfair]

I guess that's comforting. It just felt so real.

[enchangement]

A life lived for a handful of days hours moments is still a life. It's still real.

This is just...more real. A stronger reality.

[bothfoulandfair]

You have a very interesting way of looking at things.

[In a good way. She likes it.]

[enchangement]

It happens, when your brain turns everything into a kaleidoscope.

[bothfoulandfair]

[She's curious, wants to know if it's always been that way, what she means exactly, but she's already asked one rude question of someone today, and she knows if she was in River's position, she might be reluctant to explain.

She's already reluctant enough to explain her own state of mind.]

Kaleidoscopes can make beautiful patterns.

[enchangement]

Mathematical and full of color and light.

Like snowflakes. Though they have less color.

[bothfoulandfair]

[She doesn't flinch when River brings up snowflakes, or try to seal off or change the subject. She's learned to appreciate them again, even if she's still somewhere between totally accepting and totally rejecting her powers.]

And they're both unique.

[enchangement]

[ River smiles, because snow is a risk, beauty is a risk, but unique is a good word. ]

One of a kind, the only of our kind.

There's a lot of that here.

[bothfoulandfair]

Really? [She hasn't really talked with enough people to make a statement like that one way or the other.]

[enchangement]

Everyone is unique.

Here, everyone is unique for a reason.

[bothfoulandfair]

It's just very different from what I'm used to.

[enchangement]

She's used to spaceships. She knows prisons.

This is different. So many people from so many realities all in one place.

[bothfoulandfair]

What's your spaceship like?

[She'd never even heard of one before coming here, so she's curious.]

[enchangement]

Firefly class. Serenity. Old. Perfect.

Miss it.

[bothfoulandfair]

Do you have any drawings of it? We don't have spaceships in my world.

[enchangement]

No.

Could draw it. Are there supplies here?

[bothfoulandfair]

I think so.

[enchangement]

Then she'll draw it for you.

[bothfoulandfair]

I'm looking forward to seeing it.