[PRP] they bargained with death (shun & jeremiah)

[azuredreams]

"Unless you count the fact that you spoke with a Minerva Mercer that still had a voice?" He paused. "That was also from the nineties and you heard Jerry too, didn't you?" If they were discussing simultaneous existence. Which meant that there was, potentially, another Jeremiah somewhere? Who knew.

"Time is not necessarily linear when it comes to other ashdown. Minerva's always been odd because people have seen different versions of her."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

"Yeah well... I don't really think that Minerva coulda hopped over to regular Ashdown. In the O-A-D, she didn't even really like... seem all completely there? It was weird. She was also carrying an umbrella since I guess her version of Other Ashdown was still all rainy and wet and s**t."

Shun tilted his head.

"But Noeh's been staying on this side all the time too, hasn't she huh?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"Not," Jeremiah said slowly, "necessarily. I have reason to believe, from the word of others, that she has not been staying in other ashdown all the time."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

"Oh. Well that's interesting, huh. Pretty sure our homeboy Pax hasn't really gone anywhere... Dunno if the same goes for Pridey."

After a pause, he asked, "So uh... where's Noeh been sighted in regular Ashdown then?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"The park," replied Jeremiah, "and possibly some other places if you listen to Melany. I'm not exactly sure how she's crossing back and over, given her lack of magic."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

"Has... Noeh been lingering around Melany? That's kinda weird. Though... I mean. I guess they were friends at one point in time. Prolly not anymore since the whole you know. Tongue ripping and usurping thing. You don't think Noeh is like stalking her and ready to exact revenge or anything like that do ya?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"Melany- this Melany was her friend as well. The account on the listserv? That is Minerva's, she just is making use of it." Jeremiah was still going through notes. "I am not entirely sure of the nature of this world we're in now and by that, I mean that it may not even be the same cycle."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

"Yeah I know that was her. Figured it out when she was asking to be killed and all," he shrugged, "Well... Sonny is a lot younger than Sunny, yeah? Maybe we're somewhere earlier. I dunno."

Shun fell silent for a moment, as he furrowed his brow. How much of this all would have been avoided or different if the Spinel lady had died that night?

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"Did you- I mean do you know what those runes translate to? Why the name on the account is strange?" Jeremiah was not so sure that Shun was aware.

"And, yes, they are, by several thousands of years." His eyes narrowed just a bit, only because of the look on Shun's face.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Shun shook his head at Jeremiah.

"Nope. That s**t was just a buncha lines and squiggles to me really. Guessing that you know it?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"It's ogham runes," said Jeremiah, "which I didn't have a lot of interest in until the past year." The past few months if he were really honest. "They correspond to letters," not so surprising, "and spell out a name."

His head tilted as he looked towards Shun with brightly glowing eyes. "Minerva Mercer. Imagine my surprise when it turns out that it wasn't Minerva."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Blinking a few times at this, Shun slowly nodded.

"Well then. That's kinda unexpected, yeah. Though, strange at the same time. Her memories of Minerva mighta been wiped by something... the name sorta triggered her to reset a bit when I spoke with her awhile back. Think she knew what the runes meant at all?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"She knows it's Minerva's email address." Jeremiah sighed. "Didn't you hear? About the run in I had with a young woman at the farmer's market? That was her." It had gotten around the department but since Jeremiah had brought it forward himself, spoken about it, things had not gone out of control.

Even if the entire situation made him want to face palm.

"I spooked her because of my appearance. My eyes because she's been stalked by someone who looks like me but she did reveal that Minerva and her were friends and that she, I suppose, still has access to her email and used the listserv invite."

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

"Oh. Yeah. Uh. That. Kinda heard a thing or two. I dun really deal with a whole lotta the gossip and all though ya know?" Shun shrugged. He had other priorities.

"Well that's kinda interesting, then. Wonder what Minerva's up to then. Why's she like... lurking around?"

azuredreams

 

[azuredreams]

"The question becomes whether or not it is Noeh or it is another Minerva altogether, though I believe it to be Noeh." Jeremiah just was not sure how she was getting back and forth and, in all honesty, what had happened to Minerva Mercer of this world.

"But it's because it's Melany and she knows what's within her."

Blade Kuroda